The combined benefits of Open Services Gateway Initiative (OSGi) and Smart card technologies in embedded devices have made the two technologies suitable for developing middleware applications for home appliances. In this paper, we describe an electronic-prescription (eRx) system currently under development for home-based telemedicine. The eRx system is intended to support a home cared patient w...

This paper outlines a vision of Smart Environments for Cultural Heritage. The concept draws on research in an area variously known as Ubiquitous Computing, Pervasive Computing or Ambient Intelligence, which is recognized as one of the current grand challenges for computer science. Smart environments depend on communication and cooperation between numerous devices, sensor networks, servers in th...

Abstract This paper presents a comprehensive water quality monitoring system that employs a smart network management, nano-enriched sensing framework, and intelligent and efficient data analysis and forwarding protocols for smart and system-aware decision making. The presented system comprises two main subsystems, a data sensing and forwarding subsystem (DSFS), and Operation Management Subsyste...

In this paper, we propose Context Manager to resolve conflicts for Context-aware Media services in smart home environments. Conflicts arise when multiple users access a Media service or when various Media services share limited resources to provide customized responses. In order to resolve conflicts among users, the Context Manager sums up preferences of users who collide with each other and re...

Context management in context-aware applications manages contexts obtained from various sensors and services related to users and environments. However, most of the previous context management mainly focuses on single user or single application. In this paper, we propose Context Manager that resolves conflicts among multiple users and multiple services for contextaware application in smart home...

In this paper, we propose wear-UCAM, which is a toolkit for Unified Context-aware Application Model in wearable computing. As the rapid developments of mobile technologies and relevant technologies, the interests in wearable computing also become popular in both academic and industrial fields. Unfortunately there are few research activities on the application toolkit for wearable computing to s...

This paper addresses the integration of sensor networks, game engines and network protocol technologies. An architecture is presented which will enable these technologies to be leveraged to create mixed reality systems that support a number of applications. An instantiation of this architecture has been created. The design and implementation of the system gives a virtual representation of a sma...

A novel artificial cobweb routing algorithm (ACRA) for routing the tree-type physical topology of a low-voltage distribution network in a smart grid is proposed and analyzed in this paper. The establishment, maintenance and reconstruction of the route are presented. The artificial cobweb routing algorithm is shown to have broad general applicability for power line communication. To provide a th...

The Problem: In 2010, over 20.3 million vehicles were recalled. Software issues related to automotive controls such as cruise control, anti-lock braking system, traction control and stability control, account for an increasingly large percentage of the overall vehicles recalled. There is a need for new and scalable methods to evaluate automotive controls in a realistic and open setting. We have...

The increased sophistication of embedded capture and access technology and the growth of communities such as the Quantified Self that advocate for the proliferation of these tools has brought personal informatics to the masses. However, personal informatics tools and methods are still far from ubiquitous. In this paper I discuss ways to incentivize use and improve compliance of personal informa...