Intelligent Middleware for Adaptive Sensing of Tennis Coaching Sessions

In professional tennis training matches, the coachneeds to be able to view play from the most appropriate anglein order to monitor players activities. In this paper, we presenta system which can adapt the operation of a series of camerasin order to maintain optimal system performance based on aset of wireless sensors. This setup is used as a testbed for anagent based intelligent middleware that can correlate data frommany different wired and wireless sensors and provide effectivein-situ decision making. The proposed solution is flexible enoughto allow the addition of new sensors and actuators. Within thissetup we also provide details of a case study for the embeddedcontrol of cameras through the use of Ubisense data.

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