Service system for providing context information based on ubiquitous sensor network and method thereof

• US 20060149905A1
• Filed: 10/27/2005
• Published: 07/06/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 12/16/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: Park, Seung-Min, Kim, Jin-Won, Jo, Shung-Hwan, Park, Il-Gon, Shin, Chang-Min
• Application Number:
  US11/262,042
• Publication Number:
  US 20060149905A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 711/141
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal

Abstract

Provided is a service system for providing context information based on a ubiquitous sensor network and a method thereof. The context information providing service system includes: a sensing block for collecting context information of each user; an intermediating block for changing the user context information transmitted from the sensing block into a request to store the request in a context recognizing block, transmitting the request to the context recognizing block, and transmitting a service request to the context recognizing block; and a context recognizing block for storing context information of each user according to a context information storing request transmitted from the intermediating block, and providing a relevant service by using the user context information.

Claims

1. A context information providing service system based on a ubiquitous sensor network, comprising:

a sensing means for collecting context information of each user;

an intermediating means for changing the user context information transmitted from the sensing means into a request to store the request in a context recognizing means, transmitting the request to the context recognizing means, and transmitting a service request transmitted from the user to the context recognizing means; and

a context recognizing means for storing context information of each user according to a context information storing request transmitted from the intermediating means, and providing a relevant service by using the user context information that the context recognizing means stores according to the service request transmitted from the intermediating means.

2. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the context information is information specifying an existence such as a person, a place, and an object, connected with an interaction between the user and the object, and includes resource information generated from a tool having calculation capability that the user uses, and peripheral information changed based on action of the user.

3. The system as recited in claim 2, wherein the sensing means includes:

a tag-sensor for sensing the context information of the user in real-time by being attached to the user or a device to provide a service;

a sensing-sensor for transmitting the context information of the user, which is collected by sensing signals from the tag-sensor, to the sink-sensor through a routing; and

a sink-sensor for collecting the context information of the user from the sensing-sensor, transmitting the context information to the intermediating means, and controlling the sensing-sensor.

4. The system as recited in claim 3, wherein radio frequency communication is used in the communication between the tag-sensor and the sensing-sensor.

5. The system as recited in claim 3, wherein Zigbee communication is used between the tag-sensor and the sensing-sensor.

6. The system as recited in claim 3, wherein ultrawideBand (UWB) communication is used between the tag-sensor and the sensing-sensor.

7. The system as recited in claim 3, wherein more than three sensing-sensors transmit own position information to the tag-sensor, and the tag-sensor transmits position coordinates calculated by using the position information transmitted from the more than three sensors in the step that the sensing-sensor collects the position information through the tag-sensor.

8. The system as recited in claim 3, wherein the sensing-sensor calculates the position from the signals transmitted from the tag-sensor in the step that the sensing-sensor collects the position information through the tag-sensor.

9. The system as recited in claim 2, wherein the intermediating means includes:

a communicating means for transmitting/receiving the sensing means, the context recognizing means, and data;

a context information managing means for transmitting the context information and a user service request, which are received through the communicating means, to the context recognizing means through the communicating means;

a managing means for guaranteeing confidence of operation by periodically inspecting the condition of the sensing means.

10. The system as recited in claim 9, wherein the intermediating means further includes:

an information setting block for storing pre-received user basic information;

a context information processing means for performing an optimized application according to the user basic information stored in the information setting means according to the user service request, which is received through the context information managing means, and the context information obtained by questioning to the context recognizing server in real-time; and

a performing means for storing a plurality of applications and performing a relevant application according to control of the context information processing means.

11. The system as recited in claim 9, wherein the communicating means prevents traffic congestion by setting up a time to live (TTL) value in a packet including the user context information transmitted from the sensing means.

12. The system as recited in claim 9, wherein the communicating means further performs an authentication function of a user service request transmitted from the sensing means.

13. The system as recited in claim 9, wherein the communicating means checks whether a result of the user service request transmitted from the sensing means is properly provided to the relevant user, and if the result comes out a failure, the communicating means performs a transmission function again.

14. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the context recognizing means includes:

a communicating means for receiving the context information and the user service request, which are received in real-time through the intermediating means;

a database managing means for storing the context information received through the communicating means in a context information database by classifying according to kinds of the context information, and providing a user information providing service by retrieving, storing, removing the relevant data from the context information database according to the user service request received through the communicating means; and

a context information database for storing the context information according to the control of the database managing means.

15. A context information providing service based on a ubiquitous sensor network comprising the steps of:

a) collecting the context information of the user by using a ubiquitous network;

b) storing the context information according to each user; and

c) retrieving the context information of the user upon receipt of a service providing request from the user and providing a proper service.

16. The method as recited in the claim 15, wherein the context information is information specifying an existence connected with an interaction between the user and an object, and includes resource information generated from a tool having a calculation capability that a user uses and peripheral information changed based on an action of the user.