1. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK FOR A TOURISM
INTERNET OF THINGS: SMART DESTINATION
Carlos Lamsfus, Aurkene Alzua-Sorzabal, Emilio Torres-Manzanera,
David Martín, Dolores Ordóñez, Irene López de Vallejo
davidmartin@tourgune.org

2. • Outline
• Introduction
• Theoretical framework
• Context Cloud
• Conclusions

3. • Outline
• Introduction
• Theoretical framework
• Context Cloud
• Conclusions

4. Introduction
Internet
(of Things)

5. Introduction
Visitor: short-time
non-permanent citizen
Smart City
Smart Destination
New applications, personalized services, ….
IoT

6. Introduction
CONTEXT!!

7. Introduction
• The development of systems that use context data is
difficult
• Technical challenges
• Context data has to be…
• Obtained (distributed, heterogeneous)
• Processed (data model)
• Managed (inference->situations)
• The system has to be adapted to the identified situation
• Developers need…
• Toolkits that can make easier the development and
deployment of Context-Aware Systems.

8. Introduction
Smart Destination
New applications, personalized services, ….
Middleware infrastructure
IoT

9. • Outline
• Introduction
• Theoretical framework
• Context Cloud
• Conclusions

10. Theoretical framework
• Context is…
“… any information that can be obtained and
processed by a hardware or a software system,
{sleeping, at home, …} {living being, place, object}
in order to identify the situation of an entity
and adapt the system’s behaviour to that situation”.

11. Theoretical framework
• A situation is…
… the state of a subset of the available context
information at a certain region in space and at a
concrete interval in time”.
Waiting for
the bus
Bus stop
Going out on
a rainy day
Hotel room

12. • Outline
• Introduction
• Theoretical framework
• Context Cloud
• Conclusions

13. Context Cloud
End user
CONTEXT-AWARE
SYSTEM
Waiting for
the bus
Going out on
a rainy day
Warm place
CONTEXT CLOUD
Bus stop
Hotel room
Beach

14. Context Cloud: functionalities
End user
CONTEXT-AWARE
SYSTEM
Programmer
Walking
Working
Sleeping
Room
CONTEXT CLOUD
Programmer
Bus stop
Active
Provider
Passive
Provider
Providers
Rule1
GET
Rule 2
XML
POST
Programmer
Weather service
Smartphone

15. Context Cloud: screenshots

16. Context Cloud: screenshots

17. • Outline
• Introduction
• Theoretical framework
• Context Cloud
• Conclusions

18. Conclusions
• Smart Destination
• Middleware infrastructure designed for developers
• Context Cloud
• Improvements over existing approaches
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Free data model based on entities
Support for mobility (GIS)
Extensible at runtime (rules, data model, sources,…)
Web development environment (involvement of DE)

19. Thank You!!
davidmartin@tourgune.org
http://vimeo.com/contextcloud
www.tourgune.org