Enhancing the smartroom system with e-tourism services

Abstract

The SmartRoom system is a service-oriented application for assisting such collaboration activity as conference or meeting in a room equipped with computing and presentational devices and Internet access. The development is open source and based on the Smart-M3 platform. In this paper, we consider advanced scenarios for SmartRoom to enhance the latter with e- Tourism services. We introduce a smart space based architecture for this enhancement. We provide an ontology for representing and sharing the tourism-related information for service construction. Based on the architecture and ontology, several case study services are designed. In particular, we implement a service for collaborative construction of a social program for conference participants. The implemented service is integrated into the SmartRoom system and demonstrates the feasibility of the proposed design.

Keywords

• Smart Spaces
• e-Tourism services
• SmartRoom
• Smart-M3
• Ontology