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A robotic mediator is a robot platform that mediates between the user and the smart environment system in order to capture user's intent and provide proactive services by collaborating with available resources in the environment. In order for a robotic mediator to provide the user with proactive context-aware services, it must communicate and collaborate with diverse heterogeneous devices and systems...
Smart applications enable pervasive and informed interactions between the physical and digital worlds. These applications are deployed on resource constrained wireless sensor networks and are commonly implemented using software modularization schemes such as components and services. Composing smart applications at the abstraction level offered by embedded software modularization schemes is complex...
Largely motivated by the ubiquitous computing vision, computers have been steadily becoming integrated in people's life, expanding the ability of software applications to interact with the environment and the users. This has led to the creation of smart environments that support people in their daily life by exploiting information acquired using sensor networks. These systems are usually populated...
Collaboration of robots and smart environments is an essential issue when we want to enable a robotic mediator to provide the users with proactive context-aware services in smart environments. However, existing network robot software platforms are not flexible enough to effectively integrate both the respective features specific to robots and to environments. In addition, they do not support high-level...
This paper evaluates the development of a Low-cost security system using small PIR (Pyroelectric Infrared) sensor built around a microcontroller. The low-power PIR detectors take advantage of pyroelectricity to detect a human body that is a constant source of Passive Infrared (radiation in the infrared region). The system senses the signal generated by PIR sensor detecting the presence of individuals...
A work in progress of a tool designed to help sports coaches to analyze their players using an RFID technology connected to a 3-layer software is described in this paper. A few ranging techniques available in conventional RFID systems were studied to best fit this application scenario. Together with the RFID equipments, there is a 3-layer system managing all the data. The software bottom layer is...
Nowadays ubiquitous computing is spreading to all scopes of our lives. Smart environments are present at every location such us homes with automation and control devices, offices full of control networks to assist workers, or hotels with even more control devices in order to save energy and satisfy guests preferences. This paper focus on the proposal of a Reference Architecture for developing Smart...
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