THE STOLPAN PROJECT U. BI A DER CEIPIDOR , C.M. MEDAGLI A, A . MORONI, A . V ILMOS, A ND B. BEN YÓ

Over the last 15 years, the growing availability of wireless communication technologies as well as the miniaturization of electronic components inside consumer devices have made it possible to realize a so-called “ubiquitous computing” environment, as foreseen by Mark Weiser at the beginning of the 1990s. In Weiser’s article titled “ªe Computer for the 21st Century” [1], the researcher from XEROX PARC hypothesized a world of interconnected objects by means of information and communication technologies.