Sensor search with spatial information and support by showing similar parameter for building sensor context

In a home network system, a context-aware application is one of the value-added services. The application controls various appliances based on a context which is estimated by various sensors in the home network system. In our precedence research, we proposed “a Sensor Service Binder(SSB)” which facilitate the development of the context-aware applications by integrating the context and the appliance. However, our SSB needs the contexts and the appliances information which are registered by specialist, in advance. In order to register the contexts, a developer must know sensors which is used in the contexts, and define the condition equation by himself. In this paper, we propose SSB 2.0 supporting to register contexts by end-users. The SSB 2.0 realizes a sensor search service with using place information of sensors, and a context search service with using context registration history. Our SSB 2.0 supports a series of the development process from the context registration to the context and appliance integration for the context-aware application.