A context-sensitive rule-based architecture for a smart building environment

John Herbert, John O'Donoghue, Xiang Chen

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2008 2nd International Conference on Future Generation Communication and Networking, FGCN 2008
Pages437-440
Number of pages4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2008
Externally publishedYes
Event2008 2nd International Conference on Future Generation Communication and Networking, FGCN 2008 - Hainan Island, China
Duration: 13 Dec 200815 Dec 2008

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 2008 2nd International Conference on Future Generation Communication and Networking, FGCN 2008
Volume2

Conference

Conference2008 2nd International Conference on Future Generation Communication and Networking, FGCN 2008
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHainan Island
Period13/12/0815/12/08

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