Ambient Intelligence for the networked home environment

Palantir demo, tutorialand Crash Course

Thibaud Flury & Anne Gerodolle (France Telecom)

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Palantir,Demo, tutorial and crash course

• Step 1, the theory …– Palantir reminder– The architecture– Palantir bundles and deployment issues

• Step 2, … the practice– Requirements– Configuration issues– Starting and playing the palantir

• Step 3, the questions– Advanced palantir use cases– Open discussion

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Step 1Step 1

Palantir, the theory…

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Step 1Palantir, the Theory …

• The vision (mid-2006)

• Main roles of the Palantir– A service to calculate the presence for ambient applications– An ambient-application for presence management for the user

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Step 1Palantir, the Theory …

• How to "calculate" a presence status for a user ?– For the Ambient Application (using specific presence model)– From context information (using ANS, CMS and UMPS)– From user explicit input (using distributed interaction devices)

• What to do with this presence status ?– Communicate it to other users (my buddies)– Inform the Ambient Application (to engage communcation)

• What is the presence status ?– The Presence dimension – ability to communicate

• Can I send information, receive information, communicate?

– The Awareness dimension – willingness to communicate• Does I want to communicate, am I ready to communicate, are the

communication means convenient for me ?

– This information is partially defined in the presence models• Provided by ambient applications

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Step 1Palantir, the Theory …

• General Architecture

Remote users status

Context events

Control UIPalantir UI

AmbiantApplication

AmbientApplication

ANS UMPS

PresenceServerPALANTIR

Presence model

RulesUser

preferences

Local user status

User

interaction

Amigo Services

User(s)

status

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Step 1Palantir, the Theory …

• The Palantir ModulesControl UIPalantir UI

AmbiantApplication

AmbientApplication

ANS UMPS

PresenceServer

PresenceGatewayModule

PalantirAdministration

Module

PresenceAggregation

Module

PresenceInteraction

Module XMPP

To bedefined

PresenceModelLoader

Presence Interaction

Service

Presence Event

Listener

Presence Event

Listener

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Step 1Palantir, the Theory …

• The Palantir Bundles– Interfaces and API

• palantir_api

• palantir_interaction_ws

• palantir_aggregation_ws

– Core Palantir Bundles• palantir_interaction_module

• palantir_aggregation_module

• palantir_gateway

• palantir_admin

– Palantir UI• palantir_gui_impl

Palantir UI

PresenceGatewayModule

PalantirAdministration

Module

PresenceAggregation

Module

PresenceInteraction

Module

Presence Interaction

Service

Presence Event

Listener

PresenceModelLoader

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Step 1Palantir, the Theory …

• Deployment for project demonstrations– In each house – deploy the Palantir Service on a single OSGi platform

• api / interaction_ws / aggregation_ws• interaction_module / aggregation_module / gateway / admin• The palantir_admin will start a palantir instance for each user of the home

– Associated to each human interaction device – deploy the UI• interaction_ws• Palantir_gui_impl (for example with a gui)

– Associated to each ambient application – deploy the application• aggregation_ws / interaction_ws• Specific application bundles or services

– Associated to each house – The composition service

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Step 1Palantir, the Theory …

• Deployment for project demonstrations– In each house – deploy the Palantir Service on a single OSGi platform– Associated to each human interaction device – deploy the UI– Associated to each ambient application – deploy the application– Associated to each house – The composition service

• Deployment for this demo – on a single OSGi platform– The Palantir Service will start a single palantir instance

• api / interaction_ws / aggregation_ws• interaction_module / aggregation_module / gateway / admin

– The Palantir GUI• Palantir_gui_impl

– Special bundles to dynamically compose the palantir with the GUI• Palantir_standalone_composer• Palantir_gui_composer

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Step 2Step 2

Palantir, … the practice

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Step 2… Palantir, The Practice

• Requirements for the demo / Tutorial

– A PC with Wifi Access• Network SSID : WANADOO_C43D

– A Java runtime environment• JRE 1.5 + or 1.6

– The preconfigured OSCAR platform• Get it from an USB key• Or using the network http://g-nc4000-3/palantir/palantirTutorial.zip

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Step 2… Palantir, The Practice

• Check the XMPP configuration– Verify your connection properties

./oscar_Palantir/config/XXX/palantir.properties

• XXX being your user name in lower-case letters

– It should match the properties written on the paper

• Configure the Palantir Instance(s) to start– Specify your user name

./oscar_Palantir/config/prefs.properties - line 2

palantir.userIds = XXX• XXX being your user name in lower-case letters

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Step 2… Palantir, The Practice

• Configure the GUI– Edit properties published by the GUI (to be found as a WS)

./oscar_Palantir/palantir-gui.properties palantir.location = standaloneXXX palantir.user = XXX

• Replace XXX with your user name in lower-case letters– Have a look to the ./oscar_Palantir/initGui.properties

• Configure the Oscar bundles.properties– Edit ./oscar_Palantir/palantir.properties

palantir.user = XXX (line 14)• Replace XXX with your user name in lower-case letters• Those properties on line 12, 13 and 14 are the research properties for

the standalone composer (upon property name and value)– Pay attention to the property line 9

• This URL defines the place where the palantir admin must look for the configuration of palantir instances

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Step 2… Palantir, The Practice

• Starting the Palantir– Those bundles have to be installed

• jaxb• palantir_api• palantir_interaction_ws• palantir_aggregation_ws

– Those bundles have to be started (order doesn't matter)• palantir_interaction_module• palantir_aggregation_module• palantir_gateway

– To start the palantir instance (must be started in last)• palantir_admin

– Watch out the log trace (default is set to warn level)

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Step 2… Palantir, The Practice

• Starting the Palantir GUI– This bundle have to be installed

• palantir_interaction_ws

– To start the palantir gui• palantir_gui_impl

– Watch out the log trace (default is set to warn level)

• Starting the standalone composer– This bundle will bind the instance with the gui

• palantir_standalone_composer

• Just play with your Palantir !!!

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Step 2… Palantir, The Practice

• Experiment the dynamic composition– Start the gui composer

• palantir_gui_composer• This bundle allow you to lookup for particular instance or gui

– Try starting to configure and start another gui • in another oscar platform

– just copy your oscar directory– modify ./oscar_Palantir/palantir-gui.properties

– Try "borrowing" the gui of somenone else

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Step 5Step 5

Palantir, the questions

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Where to find further informations

– This presentation, an html tutorial and an archive of the preconfigured oscar available at :

http://amigo.gforge.inria.fr/obr/palantir/

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