E-Bicycle Demonstration

Tour de France, July 21st and 23rd 2006

This page presents the demonstrations held during the Tour de France on Friday, July 21st and Sunday, July 23rd 2006.

Click here to check how to attend the demonstration publicly or remotely !

Introduction

The Tour de France is a 3-weeks long professional race that takes place all over around France. This is the third most world important sport event (after the Olympic Games and the Football World Cup). It starts on July 1st in Strasbourg and finishes on July 23rd in Paris.

The Nautilus6 project within WIDE will organize an E-bicyle demonstration on Friday, July 21st and Sunday, July 23rd, near the last step of the Tour de France race. This demonstration will the a great opportunity to demonstrate IPv6 Mobility to the public and all Nautilus6 partners in France and Japan.

Anyone interested in this demonstration will be able to follow it in Live or remotely on the Internet.

Demonstration Scenario

The E-bicycle is a bicycle that embeds an IPv6 Personal Area Network (PAN). This PAN is made of several IPv6 devices and is connected to the Internet through several access technologies.

Thanks to IPv6 and mobility protocols such as NEMO Basic Support, any people in the world will be able to follow the whereabouts of the E-Bicycle near the Tour de France event, while the E-Bicycle is on the move. This includes pictures of the surroundings, sound, video, etc.

For this demonstration, the E-Bicycle will be composed of:

A multihomed Linux Mobile Router using NEPL (NEMO Platform for Linux) and Multiple Care-of Addresses Registration (MCoA). The Mobile Router will be connected to the Internet through a cellular technology and Wireless LAN. MCoA will allow to use both access technologies at the same time or to divert the traffic to one of them in case of failure of the other one,
Several IPv6 sensors (temperature and humidity sensor, direction sensor, GPS sensor) which can be remotely accessed using SNMPv1,
A PDA with an IPv6 Voice-over-IP softphone that will allow the rider to keep in touch with the public,
A camera that will regularly take pictures of the surrounding.

Another bicycle will take benefit from the E-Bicycle's Internet access, this bicycle being connected to the E-Bicycle's PAN using wireless lan.

A vehicle will follow both bicycles. This vehicle will also be connected to the Internet, and will be used as a demonstration stand. An IPv6 Camera inside the car will send a video of the demonstration to the Internet using XCAST6. An uninterrupted audio session using Voice-over-IPv6 will also be broadcasted between each entity and some clients in the Internet using XCAST6. A laptop will display the bicycle's sensors values and some pictures from the camera using the MonNemo software, that will allow the public to easily follow remotely the whereabouts of the bicycles.

MonNemo, which is available as a stand-alone JAVA application or through a JAVA applet, allows to see the E-Bicycle position on a map, some pictures of the surrounding, and the environment conditions by displaying the IPv6 sensors values. A chat also allows to keep in touch with the rider.

The E-Bicycle will be also monitored with SONAR to provide real-time statistics of the system.

How to participate to the demonstration?

There are several ways to particpate to this E-Bicycle demonstration, on July 21st and 23rd.

Demonstration on Friday, July 21st: Demonstration presentation.

Time: 11:00-13:00 (Paris Time) / 9:00-11:00 (GMT) / 18:00-20:00 (JST). We will present the testbed and equipments while performing the demonstration.
Live demonstration: We do not plan to show this session publicly, please check it remotly thanks to the MonNemo Java Applet. However you will be able to assist the demonstration publicly on Sunday's sessions (see below).
Remote participants: the MonNemo Java Applet allows you to follow the demonstration from your web browser. You will be able to check the bicycle whereabouts (map with current position, surrounding temperature and humidity, pictures, live chat). Check this applet here!
XCAST6 contents (experts only): Audio and video flows are available through VIC and RAT using XCAST6 and subscribing to the group "tourdefrance" on the following management group server: http://n6.xcast.jp/cgi-bin/xcgroupsrv.cgi (if you use IPv6) or http://imara-gw.inria.fr/cgi-bin/xcgroupsrv.cgi (if you use IPv4).

Due to the issues met on Friday, we will perform several tests on Saturday, July 22nd, so feel free to visit the Java applet or to use XCAST during the day to get some pictures and video from the demonstraiton system.

Demonstration on Sunday, July 23rd: two demonstration sessions are scheduled as follow:

Session 1: 8:00-10:00 (Paris Time) / 6:00-8:00 (GMT) / 15:00-17:00 (JST)
Session 2: 16:00-18:00 (Paris Time) / 14:00-16:00 (GMT) / 23:00-25:00 (JST) CANCELED
Live demonstration: you can attend the demonstration in live in Paris. The demonstration will be held Antony (starting point of the race), around here. (it may change according to weather and surrounding conditions!).
Remote participants: the MonNemo Java Applet allows you to follow the demonstration from your web browser. You will be able to check the bicycle whereabouts (map with current position, surrounding temperature and humidity, pictures, live chat). Check this applet here!
XCAST6 contents (experts only): Audio and video flows are available through VIC and RAT using XCAST6 and subscribing to the group "tourdefrance" on the following management group server: http://n6.xcast.jp/cgi-bin/xcgroupsrv.cgi (if you use IPv6) or http://imara-gw.inria.fr/cgi-bin/xcgroupsrv.cgi (if you use IPv4).

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