Perci: Pervasive Service Interaction with the Internet of Things

by Gregor Broll, Massimo Paolucci, Matthias Wagner, Enrico Rukzio, Albrecht Schmidt, and Heinrich Hußmann

The advancement of ubiquitous computing technologies, such as wireless networks and mobile devices, has greatly increased the availability of digital information and services in our daily lives and changed how we access and use them. Another technology that extends digital resources to the real world is the Internet of Things, which connects such resources with everyday objects by augmenting the latter with RFID or Near Field Communication (NFC) tags. This way, real-world objects get digital identities and can then be integrated into a network and associated with digital information or services. These objects can facilitate access to digital resources and support interaction with them—for example, through mobile devices that feature technologies for discovering, capturing, and using information from tagged objects.