Integrating Sensor Nodes into a Middleware for Ambient Intelligence

Abstract

The development of infrastructures enabling dynamic and automated composition of IT systems is a big challenge. This paper addresses a new idea of allowing component-based systems to reconfigure themselves. Therefore, the authors propose DAiSI - a Dynamic Adaptive System Infrastructure for dynamic integration of components as well as their reconfiguration during runtime. Thereby, one of the features of the infrastructure is that it is capable of binding components based on their availability. In this paper the authors concentrate on presenting how resource constrained sensor nodes can be integrated into a system using this infrastructure.

Ambient Intelligence and Ubiquitous Computing

“…Additionally, ambient intelligence has to be highly dynamic and flexible with regard to the concrete setting of devices that change in time, for instance, a new type of mobile phone. The corresponding reconfiguration could take place in real-time in order to directly integrate a device that is needed for the service of another device Bartelt et al (2005) and Klus et al (2006). For example, if a display is needed for illustration, the environment could be searched for a device with a display close to the user (Anastasopoulos et al 2005.…”