Passive RFID technology and unobtrusive Bluetoothenabled active tags are means to augment products and everyday objects with information technology invisible to human users. This ...
Software has for a long time been used for controlling different systems. Today, there is a trend towards integrating software into consumer electronics, home appliances, cars etc...
In Autonomic Computing, an application needs to be aware of its environment. While the term "environment" is not normally understood as being a physical environment, in ...
Publish-subscribe-query information broker middleware offers great promise to users of pervasive computing systems requiring access to information. However, users of publish-subscr...
Many types of information available in a pervasive computing environment, such as people location information, should be accessible only by a limited set of people. Some propertie...