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In this paper, we describe a design and deployment experience of context-aware services for a particular application environment. The design has been based on a conceptual framework, which identifies the main functional building blocks that a context-aware system should have. In practice, the context-aware system has been built on an application server as a central element, which interacts with different data bases where user and context information is stored. To enable positioning and communications, a hybrid infrastructure combining WiFi and Bluetooth has been deployed. The user experience analysis shows that the acceptance of the proposed context-aware services is related, firstly, to the stability of the communications and positioning infrastructure.
This work has been financed by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science under grant TSI2005-07344 and by the Government of Madrid under grant S-0505/TIC-0255.
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Bernardos, A.M., Tarrío, P., Iglesias, J., Casar, J.R. (2009). Design and Deployment of Context-Aware Services: A Prototyping Case-Study. In: Corchado, J.M., Rodríguez, S., Llinas, J., Molina, J.M. (eds) International Symposium on Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence 2008 (DCAI 2008). Advances in Soft Computing, vol 50. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85863-8_84
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