Towards a Reference Architecture for Context-Aware Services
Axel Buerkle, Wilmuth Mueller, Uwe Pfirrm · InTech eBooks · 2008
Developing complex sensing infrastructures, perceptual components, situation modelling components and context-aware services constitute extremely demanding research tasks. Given the tremendous effort required to setup and develop such infrastructures, we strongly believe that a framework ensuring their reusability in the scope of a range of services is of high value. This is not the case with most ubiquitous, pervasive and contextaware systems, which tend to be very tightly coupled to the underlying sensing infrastructure and middleware (Smailagic & Siewiorek, 2002; Ryan et al., 1998). It is however expedient in projects like CHIL, where a number of service developers concentrate on radically different services.