The Amigo Service Architecture for the Open Networked Home Environment

Georgantas, Nikolaos; Mokhtar, Sonia Ben; Bromberg, Yérom-David; Issarny, Valérie; Kalaoja, Jarmo; Kantarovitch, J.; Gerodolle, A.; Mevissen, R.

doi:10.1109/wicsa.2005.71

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“…Moreover, to account for interoperability among devices of different vendors and to integrate established middleware technologies the Amigo middleware is based on ontologies and web services [42], [43] as inspired by the ideas of the semantic web [44]. All ontologies are formulated in the Web Ontology Language (OWL) [45], which uses a resource description framework/extensible markup language (RDF/XML) [46] notation.…”

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Online Diarization of Streaming Audio-Visual Data for Smart Environments

Schmalenstroeer

Haeb‐Umbach

2010

IEEE J. Sel. Top. Signal Process.

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Abstract-For an environment to be perceived as being smart, contextual information has to be gathered to adapt the system's behavior and its interface towards the user. Being a rich source of context information speech can be acquired unobtrusively by microphone arrays and then processed to extract information about the user and his environment. In this paper, a system for joint temporal segmentation, speaker localization, and identification is presented, which is supported by face identification from video data obtained from a steerable camera. Special attention is paid to latency aspects and online processing capabilities, as they are important for the application under investigation, namely ambient communication. It describes the vision of terminal-less, session-less and multi-modal telecommunication with remote partners, where the user can move freely within his home while the communication follows him. The speaker diarization serves as a context source, which has been integrated in a service-oriented middleware architecture and provided to the application to select the most appropriate I/O device and to steer the camera towards the speaker during ambient communication.

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Section: A Middleware Technologiesmentioning

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Online Diarization of Streaming Audio-Visual Data for Smart Environments

Schmalenstroeer

Haeb‐Umbach

2010

IEEE J. Sel. Top. Signal Process.

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“…A number of research projects, such as eHome [6] [7], AMIGO [1], ETRI Open Home Framework [4], have addressed challenges in home task automation. The technical problems addressed by these projects include: device and software interoperability, deployment management, and installation-time configuration.…”

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“…The Amigo project has proposed a reference architecture [1] for networked home service automation. The key issue handled by the architecture is interoperability among different vendors of device and service providers.…”

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uDesign: End-User Design Applied to Monitoring and Control Applications for Smart Spaces

Sousa

Schmerl

Poladian³

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Seventh Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA 2008)

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“…The research on cognitive radios and dynamic spectrum access [4,5] are examples on the PHY and MAC layers, while research on publish / subscribe systems [6,7] propose disruptive mechanisms for data-centric routing. On the middleware layer, approaches towards interoperability are multitude, and the scope of deployment divides different approaches to different research areas such as large-scale grids [8], or smart spaces such as office environments [6,9], homes [10,11] or more generic public spaces [12,13].…”

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ScreenSpot: Multidimensional Resource Discovery for Distributed Applications in Smart Spaces

Jurmu¹,

Boring²,

Riekki³

2008

Proceedings of the 5th International ICST Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services

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The big challenge related to the contemporary research on ubiquitous and pervasive computing is that of seamless integration. For the next generation of ubiquitous and distributed applications to emerge, disruptive functionality towards opportunistic and heterogeneous device ensembles is required on all levels of operation. In this paper, we present middleware-level resource management service for situated displays in public smart spaces, acting as a scheduler and an arbiter for mobile clients. From this service, we focus on multidimensional resource discovery, which facilitates mobile users in locating and deploying situated displays in public and semi-public smart spaces. Dimensions for discovery include dynamic availability of the displays in both spatial and temporal scales, user and rolebased access control, as well as the support for intended service. We have implemented the discovery service and subjected it for alpha testing in an indoor setting. We report a proof-of-concept implementation of the ScreenSpot system and we demonstrate an approach of visualizing the discovery results to the user.

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The Amigo Service Architecture for the Open Networked Home Environment

Cited by 32 publications

References 3 publications

Online Diarization of Streaming Audio-Visual Data for Smart Environments

Online Diarization of Streaming Audio-Visual Data for Smart Environments

uDesign: End-User Design Applied to Monitoring and Control Applications for Smart Spaces

ScreenSpot: Multidimensional Resource Discovery for Distributed Applications in Smart Spaces

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