TY - GEN
T1 - A context-sensitive rule-based architecture for a smart building environment
AU - Herbert, John
AU - O'Donoghue, John
AU - Chen, Xiang
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - In a smart building environment nomadic users can benefit from specialised context-sensitive services. These can increase productivity and offer an improved lifestyle for users. The Data Management System-Context Architecture (DMS-CA) has been designed to provide these services. The DMS-CA is novel in providing a completely generic system that is both user-friendly and efficient. The system is generic in that it can be tailored by the system administrator (using XML specifications) for a particular environment of context information inputs and a set of services. In addition, the actual rules that determine which services are triggered by which combination of contextual inputs are determined by the individual user in a user-friendly manner. Thus the generic architecture can be easily deployed for a particular building and an individual user. Generic solutions are sometimes inefficient but this system has been designed to be highly efficient through using an event-based architecture and dealing with time in a special way. The DMS-CA has been deployed for a building incorporating a wireless sensor network, and shown to provide a high quality, efficient context-sensitive data delivery service.
AB - In a smart building environment nomadic users can benefit from specialised context-sensitive services. These can increase productivity and offer an improved lifestyle for users. The Data Management System-Context Architecture (DMS-CA) has been designed to provide these services. The DMS-CA is novel in providing a completely generic system that is both user-friendly and efficient. The system is generic in that it can be tailored by the system administrator (using XML specifications) for a particular environment of context information inputs and a set of services. In addition, the actual rules that determine which services are triggered by which combination of contextual inputs are determined by the individual user in a user-friendly manner. Thus the generic architecture can be easily deployed for a particular building and an individual user. Generic solutions are sometimes inefficient but this system has been designed to be highly efficient through using an event-based architecture and dealing with time in a special way. The DMS-CA has been deployed for a building incorporating a wireless sensor network, and shown to provide a high quality, efficient context-sensitive data delivery service.
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U2 - 10.1109/FGCN.2008.169
DO - 10.1109/FGCN.2008.169
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:62349123015
SN - 9780769534312
T3 - Proceedings of the 2008 2nd International Conference on Future Generation Communication and Networking, FGCN 2008
SP - 437
EP - 440
BT - Proceedings of the 2008 2nd International Conference on Future Generation Communication and Networking, FGCN 2008
T2 - 2008 2nd International Conference on Future Generation Communication and Networking, FGCN 2008
Y2 - 13 December 2008 through 15 December 2008
ER -