Discussion on a state-of-the-art VEoT platform
The Institute For the Future (IFF) is organising a presentation by Dr Georgios Koutitas, Assistant Professor at Texas State University, on Augmented Reality and the Internet of Things (IoT).
A huge variety of IoT connected devices are deployed in the close vicinity of a user creating a huge amount of data that is hard to access and interact with. There is a need for better human-to-smart environment interaction. This presentation will address this problem with the use of a new technology called the Virtual Environment of Things (VEoT). VEoT is a new concept of integrating real-world smart things and virtual-world avatars/objects in a computer-generated virtual environment, so that entities in either worlds can interact with one another in a real-time manner.
The presentation will discuss the state-of-the-art VEoT platform that was developed at Texas State University, which integrates a sensor network of IoT, deployed at Texas State University with an Augmented Reality (AR) device to create a “4D” experience. The 4D experience provides real-time spatio-temporal visualization and allows the user to interact with the IoT network in a highly intuitive fashion.
About Dr George Koutitas
Dr George Koutitas is an Assistant Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas State University and the Director of the newly-established XReality research lab. His expertise spans the area of Internet of Things, Augmented Reality and Wireless Networks. He is also an entrepreneur and the founder of an Austin based startup company called Gridmates Inc. that is the world’s first implementation of peer to peer transactive energy. Dr Koutitas is a member of IEEE and IET and has published more than 40 scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals and conferences. He is also the author of 2 books related to Smart Cities and Smart Grids. Dr Koutitas is also the inventor of 2 patent pending technologies in the area of Augmented Reality and Peer to Peer Energy. His research is cited in more than 750 scientific publications (source: Google Scholar).
