Percontrol: A pervasive system for educational environments

This paper presents the development of a control system for learning environments specialized in special education. Amongst its various possible uses, the system focuses on managing the class attendance of special education students, teachers and other classroom users through the use of pervasive and ubiquitous technologies. For developing tests and obtaining results, electronic devices that monitor and control the environment were used, in particular, SunSpot devices. These nodes detect and store environmental data in an omnipresent distributed database. Another contribution present in this work is the use of a hybrid middleware for controlling the application and the devices used in these environments.