Agent-based Recognition of Relations among People using GPS Data

Ubiquitous computing is very expected to improve safety and offer more services in Japan. This involves managing large amounts of personal data, which is currently done by private companies. The paper describes how to use these data to watch children to keep safety on road to go to school. We use an agent-based recognition of relations among people using GPS data to show context information to parent who watch over his child. The recognition functions consisted of autonomous intelligent agents. An agent in lower layer of hierarchy finds the child drop off the way from school to home, then it makes alarm in system. The current application system such as a support system for watching over child on the school community road will send alarm-mail to the parent. Frequently, the child only go to a park with his friends to play, it is safe case, but the ordinary system makes an alarm-mail therefore the parent doesn´t watch the alarm-mail at last. The system which is proposed in this paper tries to reduce unneeded alarm-mail to use recognition of relation among people.