Generative communication in Linda
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
A Middleware Infrastructure for Active Spaces
IEEE Pervasive Computing
PCOM - A Component System for Pervasive Computing
PERCOM '04 Proceedings of the Second IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom'04)
ScatterWeb - Low Power Sensor Nodes and Energy Aware Routing
HICSS '05 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - Volume 09
PEIS ecologies: ambient intelligence meets autonomous robotics
Proceedings of the 2005 joint conference on Smart objects and ambient intelligence: innovative context-aware services: usages and technologies
Telos: enabling ultra-low power wireless research
IPSN '05 Proceedings of the 4th international symposium on Information processing in sensor networks
LIME: A coordination model and middleware supporting mobility of hosts and agents
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Using Jini to enable pervasive computing environments
Proceedings of the 43rd annual Southeast regional conference - Volume 1
PERCOM '07 Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications
MundoCore: A light-weight infrastructure for pervasive computing
Pervasive and Mobile Computing
Wireless sensor networks: performance analysis in indoor scenarios
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
A middleware for ecologies of robotic devices
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Robot communication and coordination
Robots in the kitchen: Exploiting ubiquitous sensing and actuation
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Autonomous functional configuration of a network robot system
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Understanding the real behavior of Mote and 802.11 ad hoc networks: an experimental approach
Pervasive and Mobile Computing
Mobile data collection in sensor networks: The TinyLime middleware
Pervasive and Mobile Computing
Indirect Reference: Reconfiguring Distributed Sensors and Actuators
SUTC '10 Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Sensor Networks, Ubiquitous, and Trustworthy Computing
Design and implementation of home network systems using UPnP middleware for networked appliances
IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics
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The fields of ambient intelligence, distributed robotics and wireless sensor networks are converging toward a common vision, in which ubiquitous sensing and acting devices cooperate to provide useful services in the home. These devices can range from sophisticated mobile robots to simple sensor nodes and even simpler tagged everyday objects. In this vision, a milkbox left on the table after the user has left the home could ask the service of a mobile robot to be placed back in the refrigerator. A missing ingredient to realize this vision is a mechanism that enables the communication and interoperation among such highly heterogeneous entities. In this paper, we propose such a mechanism in the form of a middleware able to integrate robots, tiny devices and augmented everyday objects into one and the same system. The key moves to cope with heterogeneity are: the definition of a tiny, compatible version of the middleware, that can run on small devices; and the concept of object proxy, used to make everyday object accessible within the middleware. We describe the concepts and implementation of our middleware, and show a number of experiments that illustrate its performance.