iCAP: an informal tool for interactive prototyping of context-aware applications
CHI '03 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
"Take me with you!": a case study of context-aware application integrating cyber and physical spaces
Proceedings of the 2004 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Maximum lifetime routing in wireless sensor networks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
J-Sim: A Simulation Environment for Wireless Sensor Networks
ANSS '05 Proceedings of the 38th annual Symposium on Simulation
TinyDB: an acquisitional query processing system for sensor networks
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS) - Special Issue: SIGMOD/PODS 2003
Towards 3-dimensional and optimized design of wireless networks for smart environments
Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges
CollaborationBus: An Editor for the Easy Configuration of Ubiquitous Computing Environments
PDP '07 Proceedings of the 15th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing
A review of smart homes-Present state and future challenges
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
Context-aware systems: A literature review and classification
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
DiaSim: A parameterized simulator for pervasive computing applications
PERCOM '09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications
Enabling user-oriented management for ubiquitous computing: The meta-design approach
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Ubiquitous computing: An overview of technology impacts
Telematics and Informatics
Programming wireless sensor networks: Fundamental concepts and state of the art
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
The Computer-Aided Design Software for Smart Home Device Based on Cloud Computing Service
WCSE '10 Proceedings of the 2010 Second World Congress on Software Engineering - Volume 01
Research and implementation of the context-aware middleware for controlling home appliances
IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics
Managing mechanism for service compatibility and interaction issues in context-aware ubiquitous home
IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics
USS Monitor: A Monitoring System for Collaborative Ubiquitous Computing Environment
IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics
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With the proliferation of wireless sensor network technologies, the context-aware applications of smart environments have become more and more popular. However, time-consuming and labor-intensive works hamper the development of smart building applications. Therefore, application developers need the proper software platforms to efficiently design the applications. Much research currently proposed the design approaches based on low-level concerns and the real-world deployments based on high-level programming abstraction are rare. Accordingly, the pressing issue is how to offer the easy-to-use tools with acceptable performance to rapidly and easily design the application scenarios for non-technical application users. Therefore, this study focuses on the application-layer simulation to propose a Visualization System of Context-aware Application Scenario Planning (VS-CaSP) for assisting non-technical developers and end-users in rapidly and easily designing the application scenario of smart buildings and in performing the acceptable and predictable simulation and evaluation. VS-CaSp applies rule-based and 3D visualization techniques to offer a 3D authoring environment integrated with real Zigbee sensor devices, where designers are able to rapidly construct immersive 3D buildings and easily plan the context-aware application scenario via GUI tool based on proposed three-tier rule hierarchy, to visually simulate and verify the planned scenario via virtual and real sensor devices, and to repeatedly modify the control strategies to enhance the deployment effectiveness. The experimental results show that VS-CaSP is easy to use for the support of quickly designing smart building applications, but not professional enough for developments of 3D modeling, animation, and rule expression. Accordingly, it is workable and expected to prove beneficial to non-technical users.