Monitor, Control and Process – An Adaptive Platform for Ubiquitous Computing

Abstract

Monitor, control and process data on top of distributed networks has been a trending topic in the past few years, with ubiquity being adjective to computing and, gradually, the Internet of Things becoming a reality in home and factory automation or Ambient Assisted Living (aal). Still, there is a general lack of knowledge and best practices on how to build systems that integrate devices and services from third-parties which connect dynamically with each other. Recurring problems such as security, clustering, message passing, deployment and other orchestration details also lack a standardized solution. The authors describe a platform that simplifies the bootstrap and maintenance of such complex systems, presenting its application in an aal scenario. Such platform could orchestrate most distributed systems, possibly setting a pattern for distributed ubiquitous computing.

This work is financed by the erdf European Regional Development Fund through the compete programme (operational programme for competitiveness) within project aal4all, cf. fcomp-01-0202-feder-013852. Details at www.aal4all.org . Acknowledgements to Prof. Hugo Ferreira for the time spent discussing this work.