First Smart Spaces

TL;DR

This paper details the development of infrastructure for a first smart space, focusing on location-aware services and the architecture supporting multi-surface interaction with the Gloss software.

Contribution

It introduces a novel local and global architecture framework for constructing and linking Gloss applications in a smart space environment.

Findings

Development of local architecture for constructing applications.

Implementation of a global overlay network for linking assemblies.

Ongoing integration of multi-surface interaction demonstrator.

Abstract

This document describes the Gloss software currently implemented. The description of the Gloss demonstrator for multi-surface interaction can be found in D17. The ongoing integration activity for the work described in D17 and D8 constitutes our development of infrastructure for a first smart space. In this report, the focus is on infrastructure to support the implementation of location aware services. A local architecture provides a framework for constructing Gloss applications, termed assemblies, that run on individual physical nodes. A global architecture defines an overlay network for linking individual assemblies. Both local and global architectures are under active development.