Through the complexity of the “Future House” framework the project was split into three sub projects:
- PCA (Personal Cyber Agent):
The central control unit that is responsible for the smartness and information gathering/evaluation. - Identity Provider: A central identification framework that should manage the authorization/authentication of all agent that are related to a environment (such as the house).
- Mobile Drone: On the base of a mikrokopter we are planning to build a semi-automatic drone that could be used for different tasks (e.g. communication, surveillance, …). This drone should be controlled by the PCA.
At the moment the Identity Provider, shortly IdP, is developed on the base of the SAML2 specification. The purpose of this component is to track user in the domestic environment to enrich the context information with real time information about the agents and there behaviour. The gained information are only saved in the local repository without connection to the outside world. Additional to assure no information leak the connection are secured with TLS and X.509 certification (the same implementation as used for the personal cyber agent).
About Alex Oberhauser
Alex Oberhauser’s current private and professional interests are Research and Development in the area of Semantic Web and Service Oriented Architecture with the focus on the applicability of new technologies in real world scenarios. He is founder of the meta project Networld and the Crisis Information Platform Sigimera (http://www.sigimera.org).
