Sensing Technologies and the Player-Middleware for Context-Awareness in Kitchen Environments

In this paper, we report on a use case of networked sensing technologies in the context of smart homes and specifically the kitchen as scenario for our research. We adapt, use and extend an existing middleware originating from robotics for pervasive computing. We report on initial results towards context recognition in this sensor enriched environment.

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