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The anatomy of a context-aware application. (English) Zbl 1012.68979

Summary: We describe a sensor-driven, or sentient, platform for context-aware computing that enables applications to follow mobile users as they move around a building. The platform is particularly suitable for richly equipped, networked environments. The only item a user is required to carry is a small sensor tag, which identifies them to the system and locates them accurately in three dimensions. The platform builds a dynamic model of the environment using these location sensors and resource information gathered by telemetry software, and presents it in a form suitable for application programmers. Use of the platform is illustrated through a practical example, which allows a user’s current working desktop to follow them as they move around the environment.

MSC:

68U99 Computing methodologies and applications
68M10 Network design and communication in computer systems
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