Virtual Australia is not a well-defined or agreed concept.This discussion paper conceptualises Virtual Australia as a‘virtual[digital]model containing and representing all non-trivial objects and their contextual env...Virtual Australia is not a well-defined or agreed concept.This discussion paper conceptualises Virtual Australia as a‘virtual[digital]model containing and representing all non-trivial objects and their contextual environmentfrom blue sky to bedrockin real world Australia’.It describes a scenario for Virtual Australia,one or two decades from now,in which the locations and conditions of non-trivial objects and their environment are updated automatically through a combination of remote sensing and wireless communication technologies in support of a‘Supranet’.It then examines the concept of the‘Supranet’a pervasive information network based largely on wireless technology linking the physical world to a virtual model in real timeand develops and discusses three principal characteristics of the Supranet:the ability to have or collect specific information(know);the ability to process information(think);and the ability to communicate that information.If,in the near future,any or all non-trivial devices are to some extent able to know,think and communicate,the potential for object autonomy will be realised.展开更多
文摘Virtual Australia is not a well-defined or agreed concept.This discussion paper conceptualises Virtual Australia as a‘virtual[digital]model containing and representing all non-trivial objects and their contextual environmentfrom blue sky to bedrockin real world Australia’.It describes a scenario for Virtual Australia,one or two decades from now,in which the locations and conditions of non-trivial objects and their environment are updated automatically through a combination of remote sensing and wireless communication technologies in support of a‘Supranet’.It then examines the concept of the‘Supranet’a pervasive information network based largely on wireless technology linking the physical world to a virtual model in real timeand develops and discusses three principal characteristics of the Supranet:the ability to have or collect specific information(know);the ability to process information(think);and the ability to communicate that information.If,in the near future,any or all non-trivial devices are to some extent able to know,think and communicate,the potential for object autonomy will be realised.
