Abstract
Human interaction environments (HIE) must be understood as any place where people carry out their daily life, including their work, family life, leisure and social life, interacting with technology to enhance or facilitate the experience. The integration of technology in these environments has been achieved in a disorderly and incompatible way, with devices operating in isolated islands with artificial edges delimited by the manufacturers. In this paper we are presenting the UniDA framework, an integral solution for the development of systems that require the integration and interoperation of devices and technologies in HIEs. It provides developers and installers with a uniform conceptual framework capable of modelling an HIE, together with a set of libraries, tools and devices to build distributed instrumentation networks with support for transparent integration of other technologies. A series of use case examples and a comparison to many of the existing technologies in the field has been included in order to show the benefits of using UniDA.
Highlights
We are interested in the development of ubiquitous technologies for human interaction environments (HIEs)
Together with the description of those conceptual components, we present an implementation of that conceptual framework as a distributed system made up of an implementation of the model and uniform device access paradigm as a Java library, a set of software and hardware gateway components that make up an instrumentation network with the devices connected to them, and a distributed operation protocol to allow the communications between the library and the devices
In accordance with this trend, some technologies have proliferated providing functionalities such as interoperability for multimedia devices, basic environment sensing with domotic technologies, or synchronization between different devices. They fall short in the support and integration of the variety of devices and technologies required by HIE systems
Summary
We are interested in the development of ubiquitous technologies for human interaction environments (HIEs). Entertainment devices in the living room, domotic networks for lighting, central heating and security, appliances in the kitchen, Bluetooth and proprietary devices in the car, etc., every one of them operating on its own, without being aware of the state of the others or the user himself This isolation is holding back the development of rich services that could result from the integration of multiple devices and information sources. In this paper we are present UniDA, a framework for the development of solutions that require integration and interoperation of devices and technologies in human interaction environments. It provides a complete solution for building low cost distributed instrumentation networks with support for transparent integration of other technologies, while at the same time including tools for developers to operate and manage the network and its devices.
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