Smart-Its: a Platform for Activating Everyday Objects

Michael Beigl, Christian Decker (U. Karlsruhe), 
Albrecht Schmidt, Hans Gellersen (U. Lancaster)

The idea of Smart-Its is to provide a platform for turning passive 
objects into networked smart artefacts. In Smart-Its not only sensing 
is distributed but interpretation of what is sensed. Smart-Its are not 
first-class devices but always attached to a physical entity to which 
it adds a digital self. We will demonstrate specific Smart-Its 
applications and aim also to demonstrate on-the-fly augmentation 
of physical objects on site.