Borja Gamecho 2015

Finished

Research line:

Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence

Description:

The latest mobile devices available nowadays are leading to the development of a new generation of mobile applications that are able to react to context. Context-awareness requires data from the environment, usually collected by means of sensors embedded in mobile devices or connected to them through wireless networks.

Developers of mobile applications are faced with several challenges when it comes to the creation of context-aware applications. Sensor and device heterogeneity stand out among these challenges. In order to assist designers, we propose a layered conceptual framework for sensor abstraction and virtualization, called Igerri. Its main objective is to facilitate the development of context-aware applications independently of the specific sensors available in the user environment. To avoid the need to directly manage physical sensors, a layered structure of virtual and abstract sensors is conceived.

Two software components, based on the proposed framework, have been designed in order to test Igerri’s robustness. The first one processes the information from the successive sensor layers and generates high-level context information. The second is responsible for managing network aspects and real time settings. This implementation has been tested using a representative context-aware application in different scenarios. The results obtained show that the implementation, and therefore the conceptual framework, is suitable for dealing with context information and hiding sensor programming

File URL:

https://addi.ehu.es/bitstream/10810/18391/1/Gamecho2015_Thesis_ISBN.pdf

File name:

Gamecho2015_Thesis_ISBN.pdf

Scope:

International

University:

Universidad de País Vasco - Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea

Center:

Facultad de Informática

Department:

Arquitectura y Tecnología de Computadores

Rating:

Apto Cum Laude

Reading year:

2015