Pervasive computing environments such as smart homes require a mechanism to easily integrate and manage numerous and heterogeneous sensors and actuators into the system. Additionally, the smart space should be assembled programmatically by software developers instead of hardwired by engineers and system integrators. However, most available sensor platforms are not adequate for this task. Atlas ...

Smart phones have recently become increasingly popular because they provide “all-in-one” convenience by integrating traditional mobile phones with handled computing devices. Unfortunately these mobile devices are beginning to face many of the same security threats as desktops. Since smart phones software architecture is similar to the PCs software architecture, they are vulnerable to similar ty...

Smart Home technology offers a viable solution to the increasing needs of the elderly, special needs and home based-healthcare populations. The research to date has largely focused on the development of communication technologies, sensor technologies and intelligent user interfaces. We claim that this technological evolution has not been matched with a step of a similar size on the software cou...

(Kopetz, 1997) stated that a trend in the sensor technology is the development of intelligent sensors also called smart sensors. The development of such sensors do not only rely on the hardware development but also on the software. The later should so meet the requirements on low costs and of quality. This paper presents our approach to model the software of a smart sensor and to generate the c...

Self-reconfigurable modular robotics represents a new approach to robotic hardware, in which the “robot” is composed of many simple, identical interacting modules. We propose a novel application of modular robotics: the programmable smart membrane, a device capable of actively filtering objects based on numerous measurable attributes. Creating control software for modular robotic tasks like the...

Android Operating system in smart mobiles is a most popular OS in all over the world. However, failure in hardware and software in smartphone is a matter of concern for all of its users. The effect of failure leads to problem in mobiles, customer dissatisfaction, cost ineffective, poor marketing for manufacturer etc. The cause and effect of failure analysis will help the user and manufacturer t...

The inherent complexity of information systems development presents significant impediments to the achievement of shared meaning among the members of a development team. In addition to the technical requirements of systems development, its intensely social nature challenges project teams to unite around a collective understanding of the processes and objectives that they pursue. How then do sof...

The number of smart appliances and devices in the home and office has grown dramatically in recent years. Unfortunately, these devices rarely interact with each other or the environment. In order to move from environments filled with smart devices to smart environments, there must be a framework for devices to communicate with each other and with the environment. This enables reasoners and auto...

This paper covers the concept, architecture, development and demonstration of a Smart Antenna Software Radio Test System (SASRATS). SASRATS was designed and developed as a functional and flexible system to facilitate the field testing of space-time processing architectures and algorithms. It also facilitates the correlation between theoretical, simulated and measured performance. The SASRATS ar...