It can be defined such as intelligent systems, which are single-purpose devices that detect something in the environment, perform a basic level of processing and then do something according to the results.
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Model and Infrastructure for Communications in Context-Aware Services
Cristina Rodriguez-Sanchez (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain), Susana Borromeo (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain), and Juan Hernandez-Tamames (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain)
Copyright: © 2011
|Pages: 15
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-042-6.ch031
Abstract
The appearance of concepts such as “Ambient Intelligent”, “Ubiquitous Computing” and “Context-Awareness” is causing the development of a new type of services called “Context-Aware Services” that in turn may affect users of mobile communications. This technology revolution is a a complex process because of the heterogeneity of contents, devices, objects, technologies, resources and users that can coexist at the same local environment. The novel approach of our work is the development of a ”Local Infrastructure” in order to provide intelligent, transparent and adaptable services to the user as well as to solve the problem of local context control. Two contributions will be presented: conceptual model for developing a local infrastructure and an architecture design to control the service offered by the local infrastructure. This infrastructure proposed consists of an intelligent device network to link the personal portable device with the contextual services. The device design is modular, flexible, scalable, adaptable and reconfigurable remotely in order to tolerate new demanding services whenever are needed. Finally, the result suggests that we will be able to develop a wide range of new and useful applications, not conceived at origin.