Projects that might be undertaken, are as follows:
Learning Management
Convention of the Future would adapt MIT’s Stellar program as a model for the convention, exhibition and meeting industry. Stellar is a web-based content management system designed and built by MIT for course material delivery. Re-purposed for convention, expositions and meeting environments, Stellar would provide the model for designing a information service application to extend the quality and range of information management. Stellar utilizes open common services architecture, allowing emerging technologies to be bundled with the industry’s legacy applications, significantly reducing costs.
Floor Traffic Control for the Convention
Convention
of the Future would work with the MIT Auto ID Center to adapt radio frequency
identification (RFID) technology to vastly improve productivity on the
convention floor, providing major savings. This “floor traffic control”
would allow the convention center building to identify all objects within
it anytime-anywhere, employing an entirely new class of electronic tags,
readers and network software. This would include controlling objects ranging
from modular exhibit booths to the trucks and containers in which they
are shipped. It is anticipated that the system would vastly increase productivity,
before during and after an event. Utilizing common-services architecture,
Auto- ID-RFID would integrate with Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and
Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
Applicable MIT Research*: MIT Auto-ID Center
The Visitor's Channel
The Visitor's Channel would address the multi-media needs of the convention, exposition and meeting industry. Creation of this service would be based on adapting existing MIT/AMPS innovation, while writing new multimedia interfaces tailored to the needs of industry sectors, including live, subscription, on-demand, and interactive delivery. The new service would allow simultaneous or asynchronous streaming over platform channels ranging from personal digital assistants to large-scale panel displays, delivered over network common-services architecture. The service would support advertising to create a new source of revenue.
Applicable
MIT Research*: AMPS Digital Wayfinding - Navigating the City and the Convention
The common-services architecture that facilitates learning management,
floor traffic control, and the “Visitor’s Channel” could enable efficient
location-based/convention specific services, running on attendee cell
phones and PDAs.
*While reference projects draw from several MIT research projects, the Convention of the Future does not claim ownership of the research on the linked web sites. Copyrights belong to the respective owners.