Omni-Present Electronic Network


A snap shot captured by OPEN System


A snap shot captured by OPEN System


A screen capture of a kiosk by OPEN System


A screen capture of a kiosk by OPEN System


Related Areas
Internet Technology
 Omni-Present Electronic Network (OPEN) System


Omnipresence means, "the state of being everywhere simultaneously". With a rapid increase in mobile and remote. This was made possible through the client-server architecture by connecting one server to several clients. But still the information about the users' computers (or the client machines) was present only at the server and not on every computer. To make the information available on all the computers that are connected to net, CRCS developed the Omni Present Electronic Network (OPEN) System.

The Omni Present Electronic Network (OPEN) system is a tool for remote presence and works on the client-server architecture using TCP/IP sockets. It is portable across different platforms and has been tested and found working on the following:
  • Client: MS Windows 2000 Pro, 98, 95, NT, and Red Hat Linux 6.1
  • Server: MS Windows 2000 Server, 98, and Red Hat Linux 6.1
Currently, it has the following modules:

The OPEN system has a web interface and displays the captured screens in the form of a web page. This page auto refreshes after a fixed interval of time. The system’s web site is password protected and the screens captured during previous two days are archived.

Currently, the system does the following:
  • Capture screens
  • Send text and voice messages
  • Take snapshots of the user
  • Capture user's sound
The system will also have the capability to adapt itself according to the resources available. For example the voice chat or video conferencing will be enabled/disabled automatically depending upon the bandwidth on which it is running (fast network i.e. Intranet/Broadband or slow network i.e. Internet).

The system has a wide spread application in Computer Education Centers to remotely monitor the progress of the students during their practice sessions. Currently, it is being used to monitor the kiosks.

Future plans
In future, we plan to make the installation of the system web-based. It could then be installed on any computer around the world through the Internet. It will also have an auto-upgrade facility, which will check the system’s version with the version available on the server every time the system initializes. If it is running an old version then it will upgrade itself.

We also plan to make the information about the client's computer available on every telephone by attaching the system with telephone network using Java Communication API and Hayes AT commands. An 'Interactive Voice Response' (IVR) system will be developed and deployed at the server. The system will have the capability of ringing any telephone (cellular or other types) and provide any voice-based information using VoiceXML, a Web-based markup language for representing human-computer dialogs.


This project reflects the efforts of CRCS in the area of Remote monitoring.


For more details contact: S. Minz