NIST’s Role
Pervasive computing is in infancy
Many required technologies are immature & have high risk
NIST’s unique role
- develop metrics, tests and standards to push forward underlying technologies and help pervasive computing mature and grow
- develop test data and test scenarios/tasks
- provide impartial, large-scale evaluations across many different systems and companies
- develop interoperability specifications and test methods
- perform & provide tools for conformance testing