Welcome to PERSIST
Current trends in the design of pervasive systems have concentrated on the problem of isolated smart spaces (such as smart homes) via a fixed infrastructure. This is likely to lead to the evolution of islands of pervasiveness separated by voids in which there is no support for pervasiveness.
The vision of PERSIST is of a Personal Smart Space, which is associated with the portable devices carried by the user and which moves around with him/her, providing context-aware pervasiveness to the user at all times and places. The Personal Smart Space will cater for the needs of users, adapting to their preferences and learning new ones as these arise.
The objective of PERSIST is to develop Personal Smart Spaces that provide a minimum set of functionalities which can be extended and enhanced as users encounter other smart spaces during their everyday activities. They will be capable of learning and reasoning about users, their intentions, preferences and context. They will be endowed with pro-active behaviours, which enable them to share context information with neighbouring Personal Smart Spaces, resolve conflicts between the preferences of multiple users, make recommendations and act upon them, prioritise, share and balance limited resources between users, services and devices, reason about trustworthiness to protect privacy and be sufficiently fault-tolerant to guarantee their own robustness and dependability.
The video below provides an example of PERSIST in action.
PERSIST NEWS FEED
PERSIST video now online
A video of one of our project demonstrators is now available online.
PERSIST @ ICT2010
Come and see the PERSIST project at ICT 2010 - click here for more details.
ICT 2010 - Florence - PERSIST/CCAST Workshop presentations now available online.
Context-awareness in Smart Environments (June 2010 - Italy)
Session 1: Socio-economics and Standards: Monetarisation of Context and Location
M. Eurich (SAP Research, Zurich):”Analysis of the business value chain of future context-aware system”
K. Stanoevska (Uni. St. Gallen, C-Cast): “New Business Models for Context–aware Services”
E. Kovacs (NEC, OMA): “OMA Service API standardization - Open Access to Context-aware Service Enablers“
Session 2: Context Acquisition: From Sensing to Meaningful Information
J. Bernat (Telefonica I&D, SENSEI): “SENSEI: Enabling a global market place for real world information and interaction”
P. Barnaghi (University of Surrey): “An Ontology for Sensor Networks, W3C Semantic Sensor Networks Incubator Group”
M. Palaniswami, (ISSNIP, Australia): “Interconnection large scale sensor networks for climate research”
R. Raulefs (WHERE Project): “The Where and Where2 Project: Recent Findings and New Tasks”
Session 3: Context Management Platforms: First Step towards Cyber-physical Systems
M. Ohashi (ATR, Japan): “Cross Ubiquitous Platform (CUBIQ) - Ubiquitous Network across Multiple Domains”
T. Mota (PT Inovação, C-Cast): “Context-aware Content Delivery”
B. Moltchanov (Telecom Italia Lab, C-CAST): “Context Management Platform”
A. Picón (Robotiker Tecnalia, m:CIUDAD): "Context-based Statistical User Behaviour Modelling for Mobile Service Recommendation"
A. Laikari (VTT): “VTT Perspective on Context-aware Services - case Games@Large”
Session 4: Context-awareness in Dynamic Smart Spaces
I. Roussaki (National Technical University of Athens, PERSIST): “Managing and Exploiting Context Information in Personal Smart Spaces”
H. Williams (HWU, PERSIST): “Context-aware Personalisation in Personal Smart Spaces”
F. Ramparany (Orange Labs, ITEA-MIDAS, SCS-SmartImmo): “Towards Context-aware Services for Smart Homes, Buildings, Cities”
T. Strang (DLR, iTetris): “Context Awareness in Car to Car Communications”
Panel Discussion: Lessons Learnt and the Way Forward
E. Kovacs (NEC/OMA)O. Fuchs (IBM/C-Cast)
N. Baker (University of the West of England/C-Cast)
Personal Smart Spaces version 0.5.1 is released.
PERSIST Reaches Milestone 9
This milestone includes the delivery of:
- D3.3: Prototype of Integrated Networking and Mobility system
- D3.4: Prototype of Context and Preferences
- D3.5: Prototype of Service Discovery and Composition
- D3.6: Dependability and Privacy Prototype Implementation
- D4.1: Prototype Grouping and Sharing Systems
- D4.2: Prototype User Intent System
- D4.3: Prototype Recommender Systems
- D4.4: Prototype Learning and Reasoning Systems
- D4.5: Prototype Pro-active Behaviour Systems
Please visit www.ict-persist.eu for more details.
Personal Smart Spaces version 0.5.0 released.
PERSIST wins Best Poster Award
The PERSIST project was presented with an award for Best Poster (in the context of the "Self-Improving Personal Smart Spaces for Pervasive Service Provision" poster presented at the FIA Conference, November 2009, Stockholm) at the FIA Event in Valencia.
The award was presented by Mario Campolargo (CEC) and was received on behalf of the project by Nikos Kalatzis (ICCS).
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PERSIST wins best poster award at FIA valencia
PERSIST in ICT Mobile Summit Workshop "Context-awareness in Smart Environments"
** UPDATE ** Download the workshop programme here
The PERSIST project will participate in a workshop addressing "Context-awareness in Smart Environments" at the upcoming ICT Mobile Summit.
Context -awareness in Smart Environments
15th June 2010, Florence
The ubiquity of mobile devices and proliferation of wireless networks will allow everyone permanent access to the Internet at all times and all places. The increased computational power of these devices has the potential to empower people to generate their own applications for innovative social and cognitive activities in any situation and anywhere. This wireless connection is not limited to user devices, almost any artefact from clothing to buildings can be connected and collaborate. Furthermore new sensor technologies and wireless sensor networks provide environmental intelligence and the capability to sense, reason and actuate. This leads to the exciting vision of the interconnection of artefacts embedded in our real environment, forming a society of "intelligent things" and "smart spaces". The workshop discusses the main concepts and role that context-awareness and context aware systems will play in this vision and the significance for future networks and future Internet. This workshop brings together researchers and practitioners in academia and industry to share recent results on context-awareness, as well as to foster collaboration and coordination in future EU research efforts.
This workshop is being jointly organised by C-Cast, PERSIST and SENSEI FP7 projects.
Programme:
8:45 Registration
9:00 Opening
R. Tönjes (University of Applied Science Osnabrück, C-CAST)
A. Gluhak (University of Surrey, SENSEI)
9:10 Session 1: Socio-economics and Standards: Monetarisation of Context and Location
Chair: H. Schotten (University of Kaiserslautern, C-CAST)
M. Eurich (SAP Research, Zurich):”Analysis of the business value chain of future context-aware system”
K. Stanoevska (Uni. St. Gallen, C-Cast): “New Business Models for Context–aware Services”
E. Kovacs (NEC, OMA): “OMA Service API standardization - Open Access to Context-aware Service Enablers“
10:15 Coffee Break
10:45 Session 2: Context Acquisition: From Sensing to Meaningful Information
Chair: A. Gluhak (University of Surrey, SENSEI)
J. Bernat (Telefonica I&D, SENSEI): “SENSEI: Enabling a global market place for real world information and interaction”
P. Barnaghi (University of Surrey): “An Ontology for Sensor Networks, W3C Semantic Sensor Networks Incubator Group”
O. Corcho (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, SensorGrid4Env Project):
“SPARQL-based access to sensor networks in environmental applications”
M. Palaniswami, (ISSNIP, Australia): “Interconnection large scale sensor networks for climate research”
R. Raulefs (WHERE Project): “The Where and Where2 Project: Recent Findings and New Tasks”
12:30 Lunch Break & Demonstrations
13:30 Session 3: Context Management Platforms: First Step towards Cyber-physical Systems
Chair: R. Tönjes (University of Applied Science Osnabrück, C-CAST)
M. Ohashi (ATR, Japan): “Cross Ubiquitous Platform (CUBIQ) - Ubiquitous Network across Multiple Domains”
T. Mota (PT Inovação, C-Cast): “Context-aware Content Delivery”
B. Moltchanov (Telecom Italia Lab, C-CAST): “Context Management Platform”
A. Picón (Robotiker Tecnalia, m:CIUDAD): "Context-based Statistical User Behaviour Modelling for Mobile Service Recommendation"
A. Laikari (VTT): “VTT Perspective on Context-aware Services - case Games@Large”
15:15 Coffee Break
15:45 Session 4: Context-awareness in Dynamic Smart Spaces
Chair: M. Roddy (Lake, PERSIST)
I. Roussaki (National Technical University of Athens, PERSIST): “Managing and Exploiting Context Information in Personal Smart Spaces”
H. Williams (HWU, PERSIST): “Using Context to Enhance Personalisation in Dynamic Smart Spaces”
F. Ramparany (Orange Labs, ITEA-MIDAS, SCS-SmartImmo): “Towards Context-aware Services for Smart Homes, Buildings, Cities”
T. Strang (DLR, iTetris): “Context Awareness in Car to Car Communications”
17:10 Short Break
17:15 Panel Discussion: Lessons Learnt and the Way Forward
Chair: C. Licciardi (Telecom Italia Lab)
E. Kovacs (NEC/OMA)
O. Fuchs (IBM/C-Cast)
N. Baker (University of the West of England/C-Cast)
M. Palaniswami, (ISSNIP, Australia)
M. Ohashi (ATR, Japan)
18:00 Conclusion
PERSIST @ FIA Stockholm
PERSIST participants from TSSG, ICCS and Soluta attended the Future Internet Assembly in Stockholm.
The PERSIST participants attended a number of cross domain topic sessions at the event as well as the cluster sessions.
PERSIST also participated in the poster session at the event.
PERSIST @ Semantic Week '09
PERSIST at Semantic Week '09 in Amsterdam
PERSIST engaged in a collaboration Session with SOA4ALL at Semantic Week '09 in Amsterdam.
PERSIST presenting at Semantic Week '09
PERSIST @ Internet of Services Collaboration Meeting, Brussels
PERSIST participated in the Internet of Services Collaboration Meeting in Brussels.
The project made presentations and exhibited a poster at the event.
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PERSIST POSTER, Brussels
PERSIST at FIA Prague
Patrick Hayden presented PERSIST at the Future Internet Service Offer session at the Future Internet event in Prague and participated in panel 1 whose topic was "Challenges for the Future Internet". The other panelists were Juanjo Hierro (FAST and the SFE Open Alliance), Joe Butler (SLA@SOI), Barry Norton (Service Web 3.0), Sergio Gusmeroli (COIN), Arne Berre (SHAPE), Nuria De-Lama Sanchez (SOA4All), Stefano de Panfilis (NEXOF-RA) and Philipe Massonet (GridTrust).
The panel discussed the challenges and functionalities of the future internet as provided by the Future Internet Taskforce. PERSIST addresses 69 of the 177 functionalities (39%) identified by the Future Internet Taskforce. In his presentation, Patrick outlined which functionalities are addressed by PERSIST and identified a number of the resulting research challenges.
PERSIST presents at the "Ambient intelligence (AmI) for elderly and disabled population" event in Slovenia
PERSIST consortium has presented the Personal Smart Spaces vision and achievements of PERSIST project during the Ambient intelligence (AmI) for elderly and disabled population event . The event took place on March 4th in Ljubljana, Slovenia and was co-organized by (i) Institute for Rehabilitation, Republic of Slovenia (IRRS) and (ii) Security Technology Competence Centre (SETCCE, Slovenia). The main focus of the event was demonstration of a AmI prototype for elderly and disabled people impleneted in the IRIS smart home (visit this page for more ). PERSIST technical coordinator Michael Crotty (TSSG) has presented innovative mobile self adapting smart space concepts that could in future be potentially adapted and integrated in future ambient assiting living solutions, prof. dr. Anton Zupan (IRRS) has presented the traditional smart solutions for eldery and disabled population, Jan Porekar (SETCCE) has presented and demonstated the Ambient intelligence prototype and the AmI enabling iCore platform and Mr. Jurij Dovžan (Government of Republic of Slovenia, Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology) has presented interests of Government of Republic of Slovenia and future funding possiblities that may further finance research and developement of ambient assisted living technologies.
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Figure 1: Presenters @ the AmI 4 elderly and disabled population event [from left to right]:
Jan Porekar (SETCCE), Michael Crotty (TSSG), Jurij Dovžan (Government of Republic of Slovenia, Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology) and Prof. Dr. Anton Zupan (IRSR) [below].
PERSIST Workshop @ AISB'09
PERSIST @ FIA Madrid
The PERSIST project is participated in a number of panel discussions at FIA Madrid.
Kajetan Dolinar (SETCCE) on the topic of Future Internet Services in the Identity and Privicy Session.
Patrick Hayden (TSSG) presented PERSIST in panel 1 of the Future Internet Service Offer which discussed the topic "Internet of Services and Internet of Things: adapting to user, task and location in a seamless fashion." Also participating in the panel were Alberto Leon (Telefonica) and Joris Claessens (EMIC).
FIA_Madrid: PERSIST and C-CAST representatives at FIA Madrid
PERSIST at the Irish Future Internet Forum
The PERSIST project was disseminated at the recent Irish Future Internet Forum
Intel, TSSG, HWU and Lake representing PERSIST at the Irish FI Forum
PERSIST @ AMI2008 - Call for papers
Workshop on Architectures and platforms for AMI
Check the workshop web site for more information on submission or contact one of the organizers (http://www.idi.ntnu.no/~divitini/ami2008/).
PERSIST @ AMI 2008
PERSIST has proposed a workshop for the AMI 2008 Conference in Nurnberg, Germany.
Project kick off April 2008
The PERSIST project officially kicked-off during April 2008.
