Heterogeneous component interactions: Sensors integration into multimedia applications

TL;DR

This paper introduces a unified component model for integrating heterogeneous sensors and software components in multimedia applications, facilitating adaptive applications on resource-constrained mobile devices.

Contribution

It proposes a unified component model and an interaction mechanism to enable seamless communication between sensors and software components regardless of their nature.

Findings

A unified model simplifies application design with heterogeneous sensors.

An interaction mechanism ensures reliable information exchange.

Improves adaptability of multimedia applications on mobile devices.

Abstract

Resource-constrained embedded and mobile devices are becoming increasingly common. Since few years, some mobile and ubiquitous devices such as wireless sensor, able to be aware of their physical environment, appeared. Such devices enable proposing applications which adapt to user's need according the context evolution. It implies the collaboration of sensors and software components which differ on their nature and their communication mechanisms. This paper proposes a unified component model in order to easily design applications based on software components and sensors without taking care of their nature. Then it presents a state of the art of communication problems linked to heterogeneous components and proposes an interaction mechanism which ensures information exchanges between wireless sensors and software components.