Chapter 8

Case Studies

8.1  iCampus Prototype

The iCampus prototype consists of a number of pervasive applications designed to facilitate campus users in their daily activities. The prototype is based on our iShadow architecture [1]. In the following sections, we first describe the iShadow architecture and then discuss pervasive applications built on top of it.

8.1.1  iShadow: Pervasive Computing Environment

We developed a pervasive computing environment called Intelligent Shadow (iShadow) to provide minimal but flexible system support for adaptive pervasive applications [1]. The goals of iShadow include: (1) build a smart, pervasive computing platform, which offers fundamental functions to diverse applications and (2) provide customized user ...

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