A common feature of ambient intelligence is that many objects are inter-connected and act in
unison, which is also a challenge in the Internet of Things. There has been a shift in …

Navigation in indoor environments is highly challenging for the severely visually impaired,
particularly in spaces visited for the first time. Several solutions have been proposed to deal …

In the last few years, people are increasingly demanding personalized information to carry
out their daily activities. Information systems are needed to manage a representation of the …

This manuscript presents an infrastructure that contributes to ubiquitous information.
Advances in Ambient Intelligence may help to provide us with the right information at the …

The trend of rapid evolutionary development of mobile technologies and the existence of
different user's priorities are creating new challenges with regard to selection of multifactor …

Alzheimer's disease makes great demands on care by caregivers, since they cannot distract
their attention from patients while they are managing records at the same time. For this …

This paper is focused on the automatic construction of 3D basic-semantic models of
inhabited interiors using laser scanners with the help of RFID technologies. This is an …

Most of the middlewares currently available focus on one type of device (eg, TinyOS
sensors) and/or are designed with one requirement in mind (eg, data management). This is …

Drastic changes in consumer markets over the last decades have increased the pressure
and challenges for the trade exhibition industry. Exhibiting organizations demand higher …

Loosely coupled mobile work is characterized by nomadic workers collaborating in
sporadically and on-demand ways. Supporting nomadic workers' interactions requires …