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Context-Aware Pervasive Services for Smart Cities

Context-Aware Pervasive Services for Smart Cities
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Author(s): René Meier (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)and Deirdre Lee (National University of Ireland, Ireland)
Copyright: 2011
Pages: 16
Source title: Ubiquitous Developments in Ambient Computing and Intelligence: Human-Centered Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Kevin Curran (University of Ulster, Ireland)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-549-0.ch001

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Abstract

Smart environments support the activities of individuals by enabling context-aware access to pervasive information and services. This article presents the iTransIT framework for building such context-aware pervasive services in Smart Cities. The iTransIT framework provides an architecture for conceptually integrating the independent systems underlying Smart Cities and a data model for capturing the contextual information generated by these systems. The data model is based on a hybrid approach to context-modelling that incorporates the management and communication benefits of traditional object-based context modelling with the semantic and inference advantages of ontology-based context modelling. The iTransIT framework furthermore supports a programming model designed to provide a standardised way to access and correlate contextual information from systems and ultimately, to build context-aware pervasive services for Smart Cities. The framework has been assessed based on a prototypical realisation of an architecture for integrating diverse intelligent transportation systems in Dublin and by building context-aware pervasive transportation services for urban journey planning and for visualising traffic congestion.

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