Towards the future smart products systems design

Pervasive computing refers to a seamless and invisible computing environment in which ubiquitous and connected computing devices gather information about the environment. Such computer-enabled artefacts represent a new category of smart products where objects are aware of their surroundings and cable of supporting users in various tasks. However, the complex and dynamic domain of smart products is demanding for the developers, who have to deal with the requirements of context awareness. In this demonstration, we present Simulation Environment, a simulation approach that facilitates the developing of contextual applications relied on future smart product systems. Simulation Environment supports semantic modeling of context information and provides means to generate context change events and simulate sensor values. The integration with different middleware solutions provides well defined interfaces for client applications to register as listeners for the context events. (7 refs.