Authors:
Mirko Presser
1
;
Alexander Gluhak
1
;
Derek Babb
1
;
Rahim Tafazolli
1
and
Laurent Hérault
2
Affiliations:
1
University of Surrey, United Kingdom
;
2
CEA-LETI, France
Keyword(s):
Wireless Sensor Networks, Body Sensor Networks, Context Awareness, Ambient Intelligence.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Mobile Software and Services
;
Telecommunications
;
Wireless Information Networks and Systems
;
Wireless Information Policy, Risk Assessment and Management
Abstract:
This paper provides an overview of the e-SENSE Integrated Project, highlighting its strategic importance with respect to other projects in Mobile and Wireless Systems and Platforms Beyond 3G (B3G). The main focus of the project is to capture context through the use of wireless sensor networks and further integrate the context information through an open gateway architecture into B3G. The motivation behind this is to provide real context information for the concept of Ambient Intelligence that is a focal element in many current next generation communication systems, applications and services. e-SENSE approaches this by researching efficient and light weight wireless sensor communication systems including the physical layer up to the transport layer and a distributed processing middleware including distributed services and distributed data processing in a toolbox approach. Further, components of the toolbox are optimised according to sensor network architectures, addressing several or
very specific context capturing mechanisms and sensor network applications.
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