GAIA: Enabling Active Spaces

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GAIA Enabling Active Spaces

• Manuel Roman
• Software Research Group
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Contents

• Definition
• Properties
• Enabling Infrastructure
• Personal Mobile Devices

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Definition
Interactive/Programmable entity composed of
physical devices and digital services all of them
associated with a physical space and uniformly
coordinated by a software infrastructure.
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Properties

• Combines physical and virtual entities, creating
  a digital model.
• Changes in the digital model affect the physical
  one and vice versa.

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Properties

• Manages all contained entities.
• Exports a homogeneous interface to interact with
  and program the Active Space, hiding associated
  heterogeneity.

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Enabling Infrastructure

• Gaia

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Enabling InfrastructureGaia Architecture
Active Space
Active Space
Unified Object Bus
Unified Object Bus
Gaia Application Model
Gaia Application Model




Gaia Services
Gaia Services
GAIA OS
GAIA OS
Gaia Kernel/Bootstrap
Gaia Kernel/Bootstrap
Unified Object Bus
Unified Object Bus
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Enabling InfrastructureGaia Architecture
Active Space
Active Space
Unified Object Bus
Unified Object Bus
Gaia Application Model
Gaia Application Model




Gaia Services
Gaia Services
GAIA OS
GAIA OS
Gaia Kernel/Bootstrap
Gaia Kernel/Bootstrap
Unified Object Bus
Unified Object Bus
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Unified Object Bus

• Seamlessly integrates arbitrary object buses.
• Provides tools to dynamically manipulate
  components and their dependencies.
• Reflective Middleware Platform

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Enabling InfrastructureGaia Architecture
Active Space
Active Space
Unified Object Bus
Unified Object Bus
Gaia Application Model
Gaia Application Model




Gaia Services
Gaia Services
GAIA OS
GAIA OS
Gaia Kernel/Bootstrap
Gaia Kernel
Unified Object Bus
Unified Object Bus
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Gaia Application Model
View
Model
Adapter
Event Manager
Control
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Personal Mobile Devices

• Personal Edge Devices

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Personal Mobile Devices

• Key element in active spaces
• Cell Phone
• NetPhone
• Handheld
• Head Mounted Device

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Personal Mobile Devices

• Self Contained device vs. Active Space
  Companion
• Become part of the Active Space therefore
  enhancing functionality they offer.

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• mroman1_at_cs.uiuc.edu