A New Two-Layered Architecture for Efficient Situations Management in Smart Environments
Mounir Achouri, Adel Alti, Makhlouf Derdour, Sébastien Laborie, Philippe Roose · 2017
In the field of smart environments, many devices and multimedia oriented connected objects has gained a significant attention in the last years. In such a domain, there is a large number of heterogeneous specific profiles (user devices, connected objects, smart homes, health sensors...). These profiles are highly dynamic, according to different contexts (user profile, user environment, monitoring, social activities...). There is a critical need to offer to users a flexible and efficient services selection among a large set of candidates based on their surrounding environments, user's current needs and situations. In this paper, we propose a two layered architecture including a local server (Fog computing), a central Cloud providing an efficient situation management and good scalability. We particularly focus on context-aware e-health mobile applications for achieving the efficient and quality diagnosis of complex situations and for providing all distributed multimedia services that help users to access/broadcast multimedia documents.