Objectives

T-Engine Forum conducts activities aimed at achieving the following objectives:
1. To conduct research and development of, standardize, and promote T-Engine architecture proposed by Prof. Ken Sakamura, the University of Tokyo, as a development platform for real-time embedded systems, and also to conduct liaison/coordination between organizations concerned.
2. To establish a ubiquitous computing environment using T-Engine.
3. To conduct activities of the Ubiquitous ID Center.

Chairman

Ken Sakamura

TRON Project Leader
Professor of the University of Tokyo
Director of YRP Ubiquitous Networking Laboratory

Activities

By holding various meetings when needed, such as "general meetings", usually held quarterly for all the members, “working groups” that are held by A members under various themes, "committees" that are held to report discussions and work progress in the working groups, T-Engine forum mainly conducts the following activities:

1. Research and development, study and research on the standardization, and research and development of open specifications regarding T-Engine architecture.
2. Activities to diffuse and promote T-Engine architecture.
3. Collection, exchange and provision of information on the establishment of a ubiquitous computing environment.
4. Liaison and coordination between organizations concerned regarding a ubiquitous computing environment.
5. Transmission of information on T-Engine architecture using the web page, etc.
6. Establishment of T-Engine middleware distribution infrastructure using e-commerce.
7. Other activities required for achieving the objectives of this forum.

Committees and working groups (both operated by A members)

1. Committees

The committees are equivalent to the working groups’ parent groups. Regular meetings are held on a monthly basis in principle to discuss policies for standardization, etc, authorize standards and guidelines, explain the trends of related technologies, and report discussions and work progress in the working groups.

2. Working groups

Working groups are set up as departments that do the specific work according to the policies decided at executive committee’s meetings, and meetings are basically held on a monthly basis as needed. They share and do the actual work including preparation of draft plans for standards and guidelines and so on.

3. Organizations.

4. Activities of committees and working groups

4.1 Committees

(1) T-Engine Platform Committee [TE-CO]
- Conducts activities related to all aspects of T-Engine, such as hardware, OS, middleware and others.
(2) Ubiquitous Communicator Committee [UC-CO]
- Conducts activities related to all aspects of Ubiquitous Communicators, such as hardware, OS, middleware and others.
(3) Ubiquitous/Network Infrastructure Committee [UN-CO]
- Conducts activities related to the core technology with the Ubiquitous ID Center playing a central role.
- Conducts activities related to network technology, infrastructure technology and server technology that support a ubiquitous society.

4.2 Working groups

(1) Hardware WG [HW-WG]
- Conducts activities concerning the hardware specifications of the T-Engine family, namely T-Engine (Standard T-Engine), µT-Engine (micro T-Engine), nT-Engine (nano T-Engine) and pT-Engine (pico T-Engine) .
- Hardware-related companies that develop and sell T-Engine-specified products play a central role in conducting the activities.

(2) Kernel/Development environment WG [KD-WG]
- Conducts activities concerning software specifications of “T-Monitor”, the basic monitor that operates on the T-Engine family products and the basic kernel called “T-Kernel”, as well as development environment of application software and middleware that run on T-Kernel.
- Software-related companies play a central role in conducting the activities.

(3) Middleware distribution WG [MW-WG]
- Conducts activities concerning the middleware distribution that runs on T-Kernel.
- Software-related companies play a central role in conducting the activities.

(4) Java WG [JV-WG]
- Conducts activities concerning the Java language environment.
- Software-related companies play a central role in conducting the activities.

(5) UC software platform WG [UC-SPWG]
- Conducts activities concerning software and machines that have a human interface, such as a PDA on T-Engine/T-Kernel and a communication function that enables communications with a ubiquitous environment.
- Hardware and software-related companies play a central role in conducting the activities.

(6) T-Wireless WG [TW-WG]
- Conducts activities to apply T-Engine architecture to mobile phones.

(7) ucode tag technology WG [UT-WG]
- Conducts activities concerning ucode tags and Ubiquitous ID.
- ucode tag manufacturers play a central role in conducting the activities.

(8) U-TAD WG [TD-WG]
- Conducts activities concerning U-TAD.
- Software-related companies play a central role in conducting the activities

Ubiquitous ID center

The Ubiquitous ID Center was set up within the T-Engine Forum to establish and popularize the core technology to automatically identify “physical objects” and “locations”, and to work toward the ultimate objective of realizing a ubiquitous computing environment.
Its specific activities include research & development, experiments and operation of the Ubiquitous ID technology, allocation of ubiquitous ID spaces, operation of the ucode solution database and the eTRON certificate authority.
The activities are mainly conducted by A members and e members.