Title: Context aware middleware in ambient intelligent environments

Authors: Carlos Filipe Freitas; António Meireles; Lino Figueiredo; João Barroso; António Silva; Carlos Ramos

Addresses: GECAD – Knowledge Engineering and Decision Support Group, ISEP/IPP – Institute of Engineering/Polytechnic of Porto, Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431 4200-072 Porto, Portugal ' GECAD – Knowledge Engineering and Decision Support Group, ISEP/IPP – Institute of Engineering/Polytechnic of Porto, Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431 4200-072 Porto, Portugal ' GECAD – Knowledge Engineering and Decision Support Group, ISEP/IPP – Institute of Engineering/Polytechnic of Porto, Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431 4200-072 Porto, Portugal ' UTAD – Universidade de Trás os Montes e Alto Douro, Rua Diogo Dias Ferreira, 5000-559 Vila Real, Portugal ' ISEP/IPP – Institute of Engineering/Polytechnic of Porto, Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431, 4200-072 Porto, Portugal ' GECAD – Knowledge Engineering and Decision Support Group, ISEP/IPP – Institute of Engineering/Polytechnic of Porto Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431, 4200-072 Porto, Portugal

Abstract: Ambient intelligence (AmI) paradigm has been the catalyst for the creation of several types of smart spaces, and the smart meeting rooms (SMR) is one of them. One of the main aims of AmI spaces is the development of middleware able to provide context aware computing specifically in SMR face-to-face, and distributed/asynchronous meeting settings are envisaged. This paper describes OLAVAmI - a context aware middleware system which was tested in LAID environment, a smart meeting room. OLAVAmI allows video production focusing on the speaker, an audio-to-text conversion service, and a multimedia database of meetings produced in an autonomous way. To experiment OLAVAmI usage and functionalities, two tools present in LAID test bed were used. These AmI intelligent layer tools cover two application scenarios: a ubiquitous group decision-making and a service reposition in power systems. The results and insights are presented in this article.

Keywords: smart meeting rooms; SMRs; context aware middleware; ambient intelligence; AmI; smart spaces; video production; audio-to-text conversion; multimedia database; group decision nmaking; service repositioning; power systems.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCSE.2015.070995

International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering, 2015 Vol.10 No.4, pp.347 - 358

Received: 19 Dec 2011
Accepted: 05 Sep 2012
Published online: 05 Aug 2015 *

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