Smart CAPs for Smart Its - Context Detection for Mobile Users. Florian Michahelles, Michael Samulowitz, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Volume 6, Issue 4 (2002), pp 269-275, Springer, London, September 2002. [Poster, Draft]

Abstract: Context detection for mobile users plays a major role for enabling novel, human-centric interfaces. For this, we introduce a context detection scheme applicable in a self-organized sensor network, which is formed of disseminated, computer empowered sensors, referred to as Smart-Its [1]. Context-detection takes place without requiring any central point of control, and supports push as well as pull modes. Our solution is based on an in-network composition approach relying on so-called smart Context-Aware Packets (sCAPs). These packets act as a uniform interchange format, and allow single sensors to share sensed data and to cooperate to build up a meaningful context model from manifold inputs. sCAPs travel through the sensor network governed by an enclosed retrieving plan, specifying which sensors to visit in order to gain a specific piece of context information. For enhanced flexibility, the retrieving plan itself may be dynamically altered in accordance with past sensor readings. 20060269.pdf

Bibtex Record

@Article{scaps_personalubicomp64,
  author =       {Florian Michahelles and Michael Samulowitz},
  title =        {{Smart CAPs for Smart Its - Context Detection for Mobile Users}},
  journal =      "Personal and Ubiquitous Computing",
  year =         "2002",
  OPTkey =       {},
  volume =       "6",
  number =       "4",
  pages =        "269--275",
  month =        "September",
}