Ubiquitous Network

All information terminals and the equipment, (loaded IC tip/chip) the goods, with the various networks of wire/the radio to be connected, anytime and it is network environment and the utilization environment which reaches the point where it can utilize various services from anywhere.

Originally, among US, the user which likes the utilization of note PC and PDA, the portable telephone and the Mobile equipment with car navigation and the like was many, but when NTT starts "i mode service" in 1999 February, "carrying IP connection" spread explosively. This in the machine, various Mobile equipment network connection and Internet technology and the service which connect appeared one after another, past "Mobile computing" faced big conversion.

The fact that mark y the - (Mark Weiser) borrowing the concept of computing of the personto the background, the Nomura Research Institute lectures about this circumstance is network.

This, is something which shows the conception that it will actualize high-level network utilization environment various information equipment which have the competitive predominance whose US is preponderant the optical fiber, ADSL and IMT - 2000, by tying with the below of FWA and etc.. For example, it can access the computer of the company which from the portable telephone is in the other place, the information home appliance where PDA and the microprocessor are built in, it points with to the question ? callous which reaches the point where it can utilize the other computer resource of remote place regardless of the place, by the fact that car Nabi and the multimedia terminal etc. which is installed in are connected with network.

As for concrete function and service, being various with the advocate and the bender, those etc. which you can list the human and you place under mono network pursuing, with thing, or GPS/RFID / IPv6 that for example the electronicmoney/ electronic liquidation, the key and the commuting ticket, use the portable telephone in remote control of the home appliance equipment.

In addition, there is many also the fact that you talk as those which give change to life style of society and the individual, the general affairs ministry 2001 November, starts "the research and study meeting in the future of technology regarding view", "" actualization of society "is included in 2004 IT policy general principles".