Arquitectura para la comunicación e interoperabilidad de dispositivos móviles basada en el contexto geográfico

ABSTRACT Ubiquitous computing is now a days a social necessity. It is aimed to provide every day objects with computing capabilities as well as context awareness. All these have the objective of satisfying the necessities of the human users. However, compatibility problems both in hardware and software have undermined the potential of this type of tools and environments and have imposed important challenges to practical deployments. It is for this reason that most of the current solutions are platform dependent. On the other hand, ubiquitous components are mainly connected through wireless links which inherently imposes another set of challenges such as security and confidentiality. Lastly, ubiquitous components must be aware of their context and in particular of their users’ preferences and geographic location. In this context, we present an architecture that supports the integration of software and hardware components and in this way fosters the creation of ubiquitous environments. The objective of these environments is to provide is to provide spontaneous interaction between a user and her environment and in particular between a user and a printing service. The human-environment interaction is carried out through mobile devices in a secure way. The environment has context awareness that is used to adapt its responses to the necessities of the users. Or architecture is flexible in the sense that it can easily accommodate other type of services. The latter has the objective of meeting the particular necessities of the end users without the need of further changes to our architecture