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Context-aware Infrastructures for Smart Environment

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Context awareness is relevant to embedded processing and machine to machine communication. It is, therefore, a critical element of research in smart environment. In this chapter our focus is on the various issues related to defining a context aware infrastructure around which smart environments can be designed and implemented. As far as the design aspects are concerned, the framework of context consists of representation, extraction, adaptability and formal modeling of contextual data. From prospectives of implementation, many technology related issues such as network, nodes, softwares, and the middleware architectures context management should be addressed comprehensively in order to establish a robust context aware infrastructure. This chapter touches all relevant issues in some details.

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Ghosh, R.K. (2017). Context-aware Infrastructures for Smart Environment. In: Wireless Networking and Mobile Data Management. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3941-6_16

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