“Smart Things” are commonly understood as wireless ad-hoc networked, mobile, autonomous, special purpose computing appliances, usually interacting with their environment impli...
We propose group communication for agent coordination within “active rooms” and other pervasive computing scenarios featuring strict real-time requirements, inherently unrelia...
Paolo Busetta, Mattia Merzi, Silvia Rossi, Fran&cc...
Despite having been designed to interconnect office equipment such as computers and printers, since its early days Ethernet has also been considered for use in the industrial doma...
A semi-autonomous robot for autonomous installation and removal of aircraft warning spheres on overhead wires of electric power transmission lines is described here. Hybrid system...
Mario Fernando Montenegro Campos, Guilherme A. S. ...
The development of the infrastructure for ubiquitous computing is progressing rapidly, yet the applications that will be built on this new infrastructure remain largely ill define...