Sensors in a smart room: Preliminary study

Petrozavodsk State University (PetrSU) has started development of smart rooms aiming at making the PetrSU educational and research processes of a higher automation and quality level. An important component of such rooms is sensors, which allow monitoring the current physical environment state. This paper reports our work-in-progress results on sensor use in PetrSU smart rooms. First, we selected classes of sensors for use in PetrSU smart rooms. Second, we introduce an ontological model for representing sensor-related data in smart spaces. Third, we propose an architectural Smart-M3-based solution for connecting sensors to the smart room space. We also discuss basic scenarios with sensing data that we plan to implement in the smart room.