• Start date: 01.01.2003
• End date: 31.12.2005
• Funded by: Universität Augsburg
• Local head of project: Prof. Dr. Theo Ungerer

Abstract

The Smart Doorplates demonstrate a new vision for future office buildings. The doorplates are able to display current situational information about the office owner, to act instead of the office owner in case of absence, and to direct visitors to the current location of the office owner based on a location-tracking system. Different scenarios are proposed and a prototype implementation is presented.

Description

With the Smart Doorplates a new vision for future office buildings is shown. A Smart Doorplate lets gleam the current working situation of an office owner like a half-transparent door. Thereby the activities transported to outside are assigned by the owner herself. In the simplest case this is the presence of the owner as well as her current activity situation, e.g. on the phone, in a meeting, or ready for conversation. In the case of absence the doorplate acts instead of the office owner in a restricted degree and takes on secretariat works like the notification of the current location as well as the estimated return of the employee. Furthermore the Smart Doorplate system serves as an electronic receptionist. We assume that the visitor identifies herself and whom she likes to meet in the lobby to the receptionist, receives an identification tag and is directed to the office of the employee. The direction system is implemented by the doorplates. As soon as the visitor is in the vicinity of a doorplate, the doorplate points (e.g. by means of displaying an arrow) in the direction of the office sought after.

The scenario of the Smart Doorplates will be built as a prototype on the fourth floor of the university building at Eichleitnerstrasse 30 (chair of Prof. André and Prof. Ungerer).

The current prototype consists of four doorplates as well as four RFID tag readers for identification and location tracking of persons. It was introduced at the "Nacht der Wissenschaft" on 2003, June 28.

Publications

2006

• Hybrid Predictors for Next Location Prediction
  Jan Petzold, Faruk Bagci, Wolfgang Trumler, Theo Ungerer
  The 3rd International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC-06), Wuhan and Three Gorges, China, September 2006

• Comparison of Different Methods for Next Location Prediction
  Jan Petzold, Faruk Bagci, Wolfgang Trumler, Theo Ungerer
  European Conference on Parallel Computing, Euro-Par 2006, Dresden, Germany, August/September 2006

• Improving Next Location Prediction by Using Hybrid Predictors
  Jan Petzold, Faruk Bagci, Wolfgang Trumler, Theo Ungerer
  Poster at 2nd International Workshop on Location- and Context-Awareness (LoCA 2006), Dublin, Ireland, May 2006.

• The reflective mobile agent paradigm implemented in a smart office environment
  Faruk Bagci, Holger Schick, Jan Petzold, Wolfgang Trumler, Theo Ungerer
  Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Springer-Verlag London Ltd, ISSN: 1617-4909 (Paper) 1617-4917 (Online), February 2006. Reprinted in: Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, volume 11, number 1, pages 11-19, January 2007

2005

• AMUN - autonomic middleware for ubiquitous environments applied to the smart doorplate
  Wolfgang Trumler, Faruk Bagci, Jan Petzold, Theo Ungerer
  ELSEVIER Advanced Engineering Informatics, Volume 19 Issue 3, Pages 243-252, 2005

• Prediction of Indoor Movements Using Bayesian Networks
  Jan Petzold, Andreas Pietzowski, Faruk Bagci, Wolfgang Trumler, Theo Ungerer
  First International Workshop on Location- and Context-Awareness, LoCA 2005, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, May 2005.

• Next Location Prediction Within a Smart Office Building
  Jan Petzold, Faruk Bagci, Wolfgang Trumler, Theo Ungerer
  1st International Workshop on Exploiting Context Histories in Smart Environments (ECHISE'05) at the 3rd International Conference on Pervasive Computing, Munich, Germany, May 2005.

• Support of Reflective Mobile Agents in a Smart Office Environment
  Faruk Bagci, Holger Schick, Jan Petzold, Wolfgang Trumler, Theo Ungerer
  18th International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems, Hall in Tirol/Innsbruck, Austria, pages 79-92, March 2005.

2004

• Towards an Organic Middleware for the Smart Doorplate Project
  Wolfgang Trumler, Jan Petzold, Faruk Bagci, and Theo Ungerer
  GI Workshop on Organic Computing - in connection with "34. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Informatik", Ulm, Germany, September 24, 2004

• AMUN - An Autonomic Middleware for the Smart Doorplate Project
  Wolfgang Trumler, Jan Petzold, Faruk Bagci, and Theo Ungerer
  UbiSys '04 - System Support for Ubiquitous Computing Workshop at the Sixth Annual Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2004), Nottingham, England, September 7, 2004

• AMUN - Autonomic Middleware for Ubiquitious eNvironments Applied to the Smart Doorplate Project
  Wolfgang Trumler, Jan Petzold, Faruk Bagci, Theo Ungerer
  International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC-04), New York, NY, May 17-18, 2004

2003

• Smart Doorplate - Toward an Autonomic Computing System
  Wolfgang Trumler, Faruk Bagci, Jan Petzold, Theo Ungerer
  The Fifth Annual International Workshop on Active Middleware Services (AMS2003), Seattle, USA, June 25, 2003

• Smart Doorplate
  Wolfgang Trumler, Faruk Bagci, Jan Petzold, Theo Ungerer
  The First International Conference on Appliance Design (1AD), Bristol, UK, May 6-8, 2003,
  Reprinted in: Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, volume 7, number 3-4, pages 221-226, July 2003