Platform broker architectutre: A framework for programmable smart spaces

Designing Smart Spaces involves handing physical spaces with abundance of computing devices with variety of resources, capabilities, services and policies. This paper presents a framework, called Platform Broker, that can be used for designing and developing programmable smart spaces. Programmable smart spaces can be considered as a second generation of smart space which allows “smart space programmers” to extend and program the smart space to incorporate newer applications and incorporate new devices into the smart space infrastructure. Platform Broker provides a mechanism for exporting, system resources in a smart space as synthetic file system. It has been designed and developed over the Android Mobile Platform.