Title :
An Intelligent Home Middleware System Based on Context-Awareness
Author :
Chun-dong, Wang ; Xiu-liang, Mo ; Huai-bin, Wang
Author_Institution :
Tianjin Key Lab. of Intell. Comput., Tianjin Univ. of Technol., Tianjin, China
Abstract :
An intelligent home system is designed and implemented based on the context-awareness technology, which minimizes users´ interventions and maximizes functional autonomy of systems. A multi-agent technology is proposed based and service oriented approach to build our middleware which supports tasks including acquiring, discovering, interpreting, reasoning, accessing various contexts and interoperability between different context-aware systems. In order to simplify the design of our middleware and make it convenient for users, a third-party, ¿Internet service providers¿, is proposed which is responsible for the service updating and service composition.
Keywords :
Internet; home automation; middleware; multi-agent systems; ubiquitous computing; Internet service providers; context-aware systems; context-awareness technology; intelligent home middleware system; multi-agent technology; service composition; service oriented approach; service updating; systems functional autonomy maximization; users intervention minimization; Computer vision; Context-aware services; Home appliances; Home computing; Intelligent systems; Laboratories; Middleware; Personal digital assistants; Ubiquitous computing; Web and internet services; Framework; Intelligent home; Middleware; context awareness;
Conference_Titel :
Natural Computation, 2009. ICNC '09. Fifth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Tianjin
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3736-8
DOI :
10.1109/ICNC.2009.566