Google could be looking to develop a more advanced web interface for their applications in the future using SVG (considering they are squeezed between Flash and Silverlight at the moment).
The primary mission of HTML5 was to recognize that the web has changed since the original HTML specs, as web applications were now capable of presenting very complex user interfaces and could make use of more advanced system functions (for the interface, Silverlight uses XAML while Flex/Flash uses MXML).
The touch-screen interface of the iPhone was in its way more advanced than the graphical user interface used on personal computers, its storage rivaled that of computers from just a few years before, and its operating system was a modified version of the operating system on the Apple Macintosh.
We also describe the sensor chosen for the MAV05 competition, held in Garmisch Partenkirchen, and a high level system and multi-modal interface providing more advanced autonomy in terms of collision free path planning and in-flight mission reconfiguration.
In addition to the web-based interface, Central Portal also offers a wide variety of other access methods for more advanced querying, including application programming interfaces (APIs) for Java, SPARQL, REST and SOAP.
Lastly, these thermostats all have more advanced, sometimes easier-to-use interfaces, to make programming less of a chore.
It should be noted that the commercial high-speed image sensors may be interfaced with more advanced MCUs (such as AT91CAP7E, AT91SAM7S512 from Atmel [1]).
While this is still relatively user friendly because of the graphical user interface, it involves some more advanced PHY layer knowledge, especially when targeting advanced PHY functionality.
Future plans include support for cloud-based system and data curation, data expansion and application programming interface (API) for facilitating more advanced capabilities.
When it rolls out to select Airware partners this summer, this new system will let customers take advantage of more advanced sensor and image processing tools without sacrificing an interface that's actually usable for operators in the field.
