Design of an Event-based architecture for the intra-vehicular context perception

Perceiving the whole context of a vehicle in an accurate and enriched way will be extremely useful so as to develop in-vehicle services. However, current Context-Aware systems in the vehicular scope focus on particular domains, like safety, so their perception level does not give a general view of a vehicle's context. In this frame, the present work puts forward a novel general-purpose architecture to manage the environment of a vehicle. Such an architecture is based on the Complex Event Processing paradigm allowing to fuse different data-sources in almost real-time.