An overview of pervasive computing

TOWARDS FOURTH-PARTY LOGISTICS PROVIDERS - A Business Model for Cloud-based Autonomous Logistics

“…In essence, the Internet of Things extrapolates the idea of the Internet -a global, interconnected network of computers -to describe a network of interconnected things, such as everyday objects, products, and environments. As such, the concept represents the convergence of a number of recent multi-disciplinary developments such as Ambient Intelligence (Ducatel et al, 2001), Ubiquitous (Weiser, 1991) and Pervasive Computing (Gupta et al, 2001), Auto Identification (Cole and Engels, 2002), and Intelligent Products (Meyer et al, 2009). At the heart of the concept lies the idea that objects -things -are capable of information processing and communication with each other and with their environment.…”

Supporting persistent social groups in ubiquitous computing environments using context-aware ephemeral group service

“…Devices in such environments have serious resource constraints, and they form numerous webs of short-range low-power mobile ad-hoc networks to exchange information. A principal goal of a Ubicomp environment is to provide computational support to help and mediate the users activities in a natural, and non-intrusive way [17,7]. This requires designs to be user-centric, and not simply devicecentric.…”

How to support Internet-based distribution of video on demand to portable devices

“…DEAPspace investigates completely decentralized discovery solutions, specifically suited to wireless ad hoc networks [7]. The Dynamic Mobility Agent proposal organizes localities in a hierarchy to achieve global scalability [7].…”

“…DEAPspace investigates completely decentralized discovery solutions, specifically suited to wireless ad hoc networks [7]. The Dynamic Mobility Agent proposal organizes localities in a hierarchy to achieve global scalability [7]. A relevant step in the evolution of discovery solutions for limited devices is the Jini Surrogate project that fills the gap between Jini discovery and roaming devices with no JVM.…”

“…Middlewares for portable device integration should permit both to discover automatically resources at runtime and to support easy access and utilization of highly heterogeneous components. Recent research activities have provided notable solutions for resource/service discovery, with different balances between efficiency, flexibility, scalability and abstraction level [6,7]. However, these solutions are usually hard to apply to resource-constrained portable devices.…”