Opening pervasive computing to the masses using the SEAP middleware

Holloway, Seth; Stovall, Drew; Lara-Garduno, Jorge; Julien, Christine

doi:10.1109/percom.2009.4912850

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“…Other systems focus y widespread smartphones and their integrated sensors ther, peripheral connectors for phones such as IOIO chment of external sensors and actuators. entralised web hub for mashing up devices in lo rules has been introduced in [4] and [5]. The system w reen, [6] a rather simple scripting language has been introduced for smart home setups; by using JavaScript in our toolkit we cover these very simple "If-this-then-that" use cases but also allow for the creation of highly complex rule sets.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards a Toolkit for the Rapid Creation of Smart Environments

Kubitza

Schmidt

2015

End-User Development

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Abstract. With the rise of rapid physical prototyping tools such as Arduino it has become very easy for designers, makers and developers to build smart devices, simple installations or other single device solutions. However, as soon as a room, floor or building-wide (prototype-) installation should be build consisting of various types of devices that need to communicate, the effort for building these environments still remains extremely high. A lot of this is due to three factors: programming for different platforms, bridging different communication technologies, and physically connecting devices to network and electricity. In this paper we present a concept that drastically reduces this efforts. Thus, designers and developers can focus more on the implementation of the behaviour of interactive environments. We have implemented this concept as a toolkit for on-site setups that allows to easily mash-up heterogeneous sets of devices using a common scripting language and a web-based IDE. We report from interactive installations in office and museum environments that have been realized based on this platform and we point towards new ways of programming environments.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards a Toolkit for the Rapid Creation of Smart Environments

Kubitza

Schmidt

2015

End-User Development

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“…[5] Provides an object-based framework for supporting context-sensitive applications. [6] Presented the Sensor Enablement for the Average Programmer (SEAP) middleware, which lowers the barrier to entry for programming pervasive computing applications with existing languages.…”

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“…SEAP middleware provides a middleware layer between the developer and the customized hardware, publishing sensor and actuation data using the standard HTTP protocol. [6] It is designed specifically to reduce the complexities in developing middleware for Pervasive computing using existing technologies. It is mainly developed to request and receive the data between application of the end user and the several objects in the environment using standard Http protocol.…”

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Classification and Handling of Anonymity in Pervasive Middleware

Radhamani¹,

Vanitha²,

Rajeswari³

2011

IJCA

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Pervasive devices are deployed in the world anywhere at any time that makes an adaption to the changes in the dynamic environment based on the user mobility. New device enquiry, registration and adaption are major issues in such pervasive devices. As well as handling unacknowledged communication that causes anonymity is also a considerable issue. Above aspects referred as anonymity in pervasive computing. Middleware is an intermediate software application that connects pervasive devices. Therefore in this paper we define the presence of anonymity in pervasive environments using the said issues. We also analyze and compare few middleware applications for handling anonymity.

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“…We classify this work as sensor enablement for the average programmer, or SEAP [38,39,69]. We cover previous efforts by other researchers related to SEAP in Section 2.1 before going into our approach.…”

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In the future, computers will be everywhere: carried by everyone and integrated into the environment. The increased computation and communication capabilities will enable environments to react to occupants through automated decision-making. On the path to intelligent environments, there are a number of hard problems. First and foremost, devices (sensors and actuators) must be made more approachable for average users. This dissertation aims to make applications for these intelligent environments easier to develop, thereby increasing the adoption and prevalence of emerging sensing and actuation technologies. Existing approaches to application development for these pervasive computing networks require detailed knowledge of low-level programming languages and embedded hardware. These current approaches also require adoption of new tools and languages that are not user-friendly. Intelligent environments will not be commonplace until average people can not only set up the necessary hardware and software but can also tailor the embedded software to personalized applications. This dissertation endeavors to create a software framework for pervasive computing networks that is easy to adopt and use. In resolving these challenges, this dissertation focuses first on programmers then extends to end-users. We start by standardizing device communication using highly available and widely accepted protocols. To ease the development effort for programmers, we allow complex sensor and actuator applications to be viewed as ii web applications. We term this work SEAP, or Sensor Enablement for the Average Programmer. SEAP makes available sensor data and communication capabilities that will allow average programmers to develop intelligent environment applications. However, to develop the massive amount of software necessary for personalized intelligent environments, it is also necessary to allow end-users to tailor the behavior of their sensors and actuators. This dissertation's second major contribution, Sensor Enablement for End-Users (SEEU) will provide a visual programming interface that will allow users to create personalized automated behaviors given available devices and data. This will require a principled design guided by end-users. Combining an intuitive interface and a middleware for sensor interactions, SEEU will be an end-user programming framework that will allow average people to create useful applications for their intelligent environments. For pervasive computing to truly bloom in these envisioned intelligent environments, it must be simple to develop new software for the plethora of potential available hardware. Upon completion, this dissertation will offer a software solution necessary to match the proliferation of hardware. The total package will usher in a new world of possibilities in pervasive computing.

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Opening pervasive computing to the masses using the SEAP middleware

Cited by 7 publications

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Towards a Toolkit for the Rapid Creation of Smart Environments

Towards a Toolkit for the Rapid Creation of Smart Environments

Classification and Handling of Anonymity in Pervasive Middleware

Virtual Environments

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