Sensing Information Management Apparatus and Method of Sensor Based Home Network System
AssigneeElectronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
InventorsSeung-Ho Baek, Eun-Chang Choi, Jae-Doo Huh
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Abstract
An apparatus of managing sensing information for a sensor based home network and a method thereof are disclosed. The apparatus includes a sensor network to collect sensing information from multifunctional sensor nodes, a sensing information processing and managing unit for deciding the optimized context information through controlling and managing the collected sensing information according to all of the context information and providing services suitable to user's intention and environment. Therefore, the apparatus prevents collision and minimizes the interference generated between sensing information.
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An apparatus of managing sensing information for a sensor based home network, comprising:
- a sensor network for obtaining various sensing information;
- a sensing information processing unit for receiving various sensing information from the sensor network, merging the received sensing information, transferring the merged sensing information to a sensing information managing unit, extracting optimized decision sensing information (DSI) from the sensing information managing unit, and transferring the extracted decision sensing information (DSI) to a context information recognition unit;
- a sensing information managing unit for receiving the merged sensing information from the sensing information processing unit, solving collision and interference generated between the sensing information, transferring an optimized decided sensing information (DSI) to the sensing information processing unit, receiving context managing information (CMI) from the context information recognition unit, checking a connectivity and a relationship between the context managing information (CMI) and the merged sensing information, and transferring related sensor managing information (SMI) to the context information recognition unit;
- and a context information recognition unit for providing the context managing information (CMI) to the sensing information managing unit, configuring decision context information (DCI) based on the decision sensing information (DSI) and the sensing managing information (SMI) received from the sensing information processing unit and the sensing information managing unit, and transferring the configured decision context information (DSI).
A method of managing sensing information of a sensor based home network, comprising:
- forming a logical attribute group by regularly extracting raw sensing information RI to RJ from various sensor nodes in the home network according to a target
- object;
- merging the raw sensing information forming the logical attribute group and classifying the merged sensing information into a sensing information base;
- deciding a priority of sensor nodes according to a sensing information deciding algorithm with reference to the sensing information base, and deciding optimized sensing information;
- merging the decided sensing information, deciding context information based on the merged sensing information and configuring a service according to the decided context information;
- and checking available devices according to the decided context information and the service, and providing the service by controlling the service and the available devices.
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