We explore the use of Bluetooth friendly names within the mobile space. Each Bluetooth-enabled device possesses a short string known as a ‘friendly name’ used to help identify...
Barry Lavelle, Daragh Byrne, Gareth J. F. Jones, A...
— Context-awareness is considered a key driving principle for the design and provisioning of adaptable pervasive services. Rightfully describing and interpreting context, however...
Antonio Corradi, Rebecca Montanari, Alessandra Ton...
This paper introduces a new concept of information that can exist in a mobile environment with no fixed infrastructure and centralized servers, which we call the Hovering Informati...
Personal mobile devices are increasingly equipped with the capability to sense the physical world (through cameras, microphones, and accelerometers, for example) and the network w...
Cory Cornelius, Apu Kapadia, David Kotz, Daniel Pe...
—In this paper, we show that Web protocols and technologies are good candidates to design the Internet of Things, through a user-centric architecture (the user simply has to use ...
Simon Duquennoy, Gilles Grimaud, Jean-Jacques Vand...