Power of the group The Swarm is composed of specialized devices whose interaction make possible to perform complex tasks that could not be done individually.
Power of the group The Swarm is composed of specialized devices whose interaction make possible to perform complex tasks that could not be done individually.
Organized behavior The Swarm network behaves like an organism and shows an organized behavior that results in an emergent collective intelligence.
Specialization Analogously to specialized honeybees, heterogeneous devices in the Swarm might range from high-power processing servers to low-power wearable devices.
The Interdisciplinary and Interactive Technologies Center from USP (CITI-USP) is a platform for multidisciplinary projects available for the scientific community of the University of São Paulo and cooperating scientific institutions. CITI-USP aggregates renowned scientists working around cutting-edge technologies development.
The main research objectives of CITI-USP are the promotion of multidisciplinary research and the experimentation of high-impact technologies applied on areas of social interest, such as education, health, accessibility, communication, energy, arts, among others. Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Interactive Electronic Media (IEM) constitute a cornerstone objective for CITI, as these are currently concentrating important scientific and technological challenges. CITI is conceived as a Think-tank and FabLab institution.
CITI-USP hosts the Swarm Unit research group, which originated from a collaborative work with the Ubiquitous Swarm Lab at the University of California, Berkeley. The Swarm Unit group is devoted to research the future Internet of Things and to develop enabling technologies. The Swarm approach promotes edge-computing with resource sharing among electronic devices in a spontaneous way. This group exists since 2013 and it has several publications and about 16 engaged researchers.
