Designing and Implementing Smart Spaces

The Mundo project at the Telecooperation Group is concerned with general models and architectures for ubiquitous computing. The Mundo Smart Environments system provides the necessary core services and tools to build applications for such environments. While the development of single services is common practice, the matter of how to coordinate services and how to make service bundles behave in a "smart" manner is still a research issue. We present a software development process for the systematic development of smart space applications. This process is supported by a set of common services and tools for modelling, inspection, debugging, testing, and rapid prototyping. We describe how these tools are applied in certain phases to support the process