A location model for smart environments

  • Authors:
  • Ichiro Satoh

  • Affiliations:
  • National Institute of Informatics, 2-1-2 Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-8430, Japan

  • Venue:
  • Pervasive and Mobile Computing
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

This paper presents a location model for location-aware and user-aware services in smart environments. It can be dynamically organized like a tree based on geographical containment, such as that in a user-room-floor-building hierarchy and each node in the tree can be constructed as an executable software component. The model is unique in existing approaches because it enables location-aware services to be managed without any database servers, it can be managed by multiple computers, and it can provide a unified view of the locations of not only physical entities and spaces, including users and objects, but also computing devices and services. A prototype implementation of this approach was constructed on a Java-based mobile agent system. This paper presents the rationale, design, implementation, and applications of the prototype system.