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A lightweight indoor location model for sentient artefacts using sentient artefacts

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Kaori Fujinami,

Tatsuo NakajimaAuthors Info & Claims

SAC '07: Proceedings of the 2007 ACM symposium on Applied computing

Pages 1624 - 1631

https://doi.org/10.1145/1244002.1244347

Published: 11 March 2007 Publication History

Abstract

Our approach towards context awareness is to use sensor augmented daily life objects surrounding us for extracting context information and for providing ambient services. Some of these artefacts are static in nature and have designated location, like a bed in the bedroom, a refrigerator in the kitchen, etc. Utilizing this characteristics, we present "Spreha", a light weight hierarchical location model where static artefacts are used as reference points for identifying mobile artefacts like a chair, a watch, a lamp, etc. The model is organized in a tree structure representing the containment relationship and is independent of underlying sensing infrastructure. A prototype implementation of the model has been constructed as a pluggable module of a generic middleware using Bluetooth technology. This paper discusses about the design, architecture and findings of the prototype implementation.

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Index Terms

A lightweight indoor location model for sentient artefacts using sentient artefacts
1. Computer systems organization
  1. Embedded and cyber-physical systems
  2. Real-time systems
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software organization and properties
    1. Software system structures
      1. Abstraction, modeling and modularity

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SAC '07: Proceedings of the 2007 ACM symposium on Applied computing

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DOI:10.1145/1244002

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Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
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Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia
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South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota
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The University of Suwon, Gyeongggi-do, Korea

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Acer UBoran AForlivesi CLiekens WPerez-cruz FKawsar F(2015)Sensing WiFi network for personal IoT analytics2015 5th International Conference on the Internet of Things (IOT)10.1109/IOT.2015.7356554(104-111)Online publication date: Oct-2015
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