Résumé: We describe a sensor-driven, or sentient, platform for context-aware computing that enables applications to follow mobile users as they move around a building. The platform is particularly suitable for richly equipped, networked environments. The only item a user is required to carry is a small sensor tag, which identifies them to the system and locates them accurately in three dimensions. The platform builds a dynamic model of the environment using these location sensors and resource information gathered by telemetry software, and presents it in a form suitable for application programmers. Use of the platform is illustrated through a practical example, which allows a user's current working desktop to follow them as they move around the environment.

Langue: Anglais
Index décimal 004.6 .Communications, interfaçage (coopération en matière de réseaux informatiques, équipement et techniques reliant les ordinateurs aux appareils périphériques ou à d'autres ordinateurs, hardware d'interfaçage et de transmission des données ; ouvrages généraux
Thème Informatique

Mots clés:
CORBA (architecture des ordinateurs)
Calcul mobile
Calcul sensible
Calcul contexte-averti
Logiciel personnalisé