Addressing the Context-Awareness Requirements in Personal Smart Spaces

The provision of pervasive computing services is a challenging research area. This paper elaborates on the notion of Personal Smart Spaces (PSSs) that allows the delivery of pervasive services to mobile users. PSSs aim to couple the facilities offered by next generation mobile communications with the features provided by the static smart spaces to support a more ubiquitous, context-aware and personalised smart space that is able to follow the user wherever he/she goes. Moreover, PSSs provide interfaces between the user and the various services and sensors that are available via the Internet. One of the core PSS features is the management of static and dynamic context information of users. This paper elaborates on the context management approach that has been designed and implemented in order to address the advanced requirements of PSSs regarding context awareness.