Context-Aware Systems Using Heterogeneous Sensors Modalities
Terrell R. Bennett, Christine Chan, Rajesh Kuni, Long Le, Patrick Lazik, Hunter Massey, Viswam Nathan, Yashaswini Raghuram Prathivadi Bhayankaram, Jagannathan Venkatesh, Jian Wu, Edward A. Lee, Douglas L. Jones, Tajana Simunic Rosing, Anthony Rowe, Roozbeh Jafari

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Terrell R. Bennett, Christine Chan, Rajesh Kuni, Long Le, Patrick Lazik, Hunter Massey, Viswam Nathan, Yashaswini Raghuram Prathivadi Bhayankaram, Jagannathan Venkatesh, Jian Wu, Edward A. Lee, Douglas L. Jones, Tajana Simunic Rosing, Anthony Rowe, Roozbeh Jafari. "Context-Aware Systems Using Heterogeneous Sensors Modalities". Talk or presentation, 29, October, 2014; Poster presented at the 2014 Terraswarm Annual meeting.

Abstract
Creating a context-aware system is the first step in creating a home or office that is intelligent in the truest sense. Without contextual information, the system is blind to what is happening in the world and cannot cater to the user’s needs. Sensors are a cheap source of context information. The system described in this demo utilizes these sensors to become aware of the surroundings, to model it and then build interesting context-aware applications. The system is unique in that it brings together a diverse set of sensors under a common platform supported here by Ptolemy. In this demo we explore the context information made available through the IMU motion sensors, the indoor localization sensors and acoustic sensors detecting speech activity. Because of the way the platform receives, stores, and manages context information, a user can easily modify the functionality of the system to suit his needs. The platform’s most important contribution is that it allows any sensor to become a part of the system – it is the glue that will enable the system to grow organically. Some important challenges in the realization of this system include resource allocation, reuse mechanisms, and time synchronization requirements. The poster shows our investigations on these challenges and the resulting context recognition and activation for an office environment.

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  Terrell R. Bennett, Christine Chan, Rajesh Kuni, Long Le,
  Patrick Lazik, Hunter Massey, Viswam Nathan, Yashaswini
  Raghuram Prathivadi Bhayankaram, Jagannathan Venkatesh, Jian
  Wu, Edward A. Lee, Douglas L. Jones, Tajana Simunic Rosing,
  Anthony Rowe, Roozbeh Jafari. <a
  href="http://www.terraswarm.org/pubs/399.html"
  ><i>Context-Aware Systems Using Heterogeneous
  Sensors Modalities</i></a>, Talk or
  presentation,  29, October, 2014; Poster presented at the
  2014 Terraswarm Annual meeting.

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  Terrell R. Bennett, Christine Chan, Rajesh Kuni, Long Le,
  Patrick Lazik, Hunter Massey, Viswam Nathan, Yashaswini
  Raghuram Prathivadi Bhayankaram, Jagannathan Venkatesh, Jian
  Wu, Edward A. Lee, Douglas L. Jones, Tajana Simunic Rosing,
  Anthony Rowe, Roozbeh Jafari. "Context-Aware Systems
  Using Heterogeneous Sensors Modalities". Talk or
  presentation,  29, October, 2014; Poster presented at the
  2014 Terraswarm Annual meeting.

• BibTeX

  @presentation{BennettChanKuniLeLazikMasseyNathanPrathivadiBhayankaram14_ContextAwareSystemsUsingHeterogeneousSensorsModalities,
      author = {Terrell R. Bennett and Christine Chan and Rajesh
                Kuni and Long Le and Patrick Lazik and Hunter
                Massey and Viswam Nathan and Yashaswini Raghuram
                Prathivadi Bhayankaram and Jagannathan Venkatesh
                and Jian Wu and Edward A. Lee and Douglas L. Jones
                and Tajana Simunic Rosing and Anthony Rowe and
                Roozbeh Jafari},
      title = {Context-Aware Systems Using Heterogeneous Sensors
                Modalities},
      day = {29},
      month = {October},
      year = {2014},
      note = {Poster presented at the 2014 Terraswarm Annual
                meeting.},
      abstract = {Creating a context-aware system is the first step
                in creating a home or office that is intelligent
                in the truest sense. Without contextual
                information, the system is blind to what is
                happening in the world and cannot cater to the
                user’s needs. Sensors are a cheap source of
                context information. The system described in this
                demo utilizes these sensors to become aware of the
                surroundings, to model it and then build
                interesting context-aware applications. The system
                is unique in that it brings together a diverse set
                of sensors under a common platform supported here
                by Ptolemy. In this demo we explore the context
                information made available through the IMU motion
                sensors, the indoor localization sensors and
                acoustic sensors detecting speech activity.
                Because of the way the platform receives, stores,
                and manages context information, a user can easily
                modify the functionality of the system to suit his
                needs. The platform’s most important
                contribution is that it allows any sensor to
                become a part of the system – it is the glue
                that will enable the system to grow organically.
                Some important challenges in the realization of
                this system include resource allocation, reuse
                mechanisms, and time synchronization requirements.
                The poster shows our investigations on these
                challenges and the resulting context recognition
                and activation for an office environment.},
      URL = {http://terraswarm.org/pubs/399.html}
  }
  

Posted by Rajesh Kuni on 27 Oct 2014.