A Comprehensive Framework for the Development of Dynamic Smart Spaces

The conception of reliable smart spaces requires a suitable and comprehensive framework for their design, implementation, testing, and deployment. Numerous solutions have been proposed to solve different aspects related to smart spaces, but we still lack a concrete framework that provides solutions suitable for the whole development life-cycle. This work aims to fill the gap and proposes a framework that provides: (i) well-defined abstractions for designing smart spaces, (ii) a middleware infrastructure to implement them and plug physical objects, (iii) a semantic layer to support heterogeneous elements, and (iv) plugs to integrate external simulators and be able to always work on "complete\´\´ systems in the different phases of the development.