Location information control architecture for ubiquitous services platform

摘要

This paper proposes a location-information control architecture aiming to be a base network capability for the ubiquitous environments. The proposed architecture focuses on the information of relationship between the user's terminal and objects (for example home appliances located around the user's terminal), which move asynchronously mutually. A main feature of the architecture is to recognize relationship of location-information between network terminals and other objects utilizing RF (Radio-Frequency) ID tags. The network architecture collects and holds the relationship information between terminals and the objects. The architecture and location information is expected to be the platform of new types of context-aware services.