Context Awareness of Everyday Objects in a Household

This work studies the context awareness of everyday objects augmented with sensing, communicational and computational capabilities, and presents a prototype context-aware system built for household applications. The system's interaction capabilities help to deal with the challenges of performing context detection with very limited computing resources. These capabilities and the system as such were in general approved by the users. The proposed domain-specific context model supports individual and collective work by objects, so that each collective can fulfil its task independently and needs to communicate with the mobile device only to receive a task and present the results.