PERSEO: A system to personalize the environment response through smart phones and objects

When designing services to control the behavior of a smart environment, it is feasible to rely on mobile devices as mediators to empower the user and handle his needs and preferences. In this direction, this paper describes a concept for mobile-object instrumented interaction through a system that enables the orchestration of a set of smart objects with sensing and/or media capabilities deployed in a room. These objects are coordinated to respond accordingly to the physical and logical state of a mobile device. A specific case of use is described; it is centered on a 'smart night table' that coordinates the response of the smart environment, populated with interfaces such as a TV, tablet, sound system and photo framework. When a user places his smartphone on the smart table, a service checks the active applications in the mobile device and makes an external controller to forward actions to the mentioned interfaces, managing their availability. The prototype shows the viability of these mobile-object instrumented personalization and interaction concepts.