SOPRANO Ambient Middleware

Last week we had the very successful second annual review of the Integrated Project SOPRANO in the field of Ambient Assisted Living. Our approach to a semantic middleware based on OSGi has been highly appreciated. At the core is on the one side a context management approach, which is largely based on my PhD work and has been developed further by my colleague Peter Wolf, on the other side the semantic service description approach from DIANE, which Michael Klein from CAS has developed. Our lightweight semantics approach on both sides plays very well together, as the following presentation shows:

We want plan to make this technology available to everyone. Stay tuned.