Online Services and Content Management: Design Solutions for the PetrSU Smart Room

Smart Room is a system for automated holding meeting-like activities localized in a room where a set of digital services is available for organizers and participants. The Smart-M3 platform sets up a networked knowledge sharing environment on top of which our system is deployed. The core service types in Smart Room are Agenda and Presentation. The former maintains the activity plan for participants in the room. The latter is responsible for the show of digital materials of the current speaker. Other activity-supporting services are constructed by augmenting the core ones or as independent services.

We focus on reliability of Smart Room services operating in an open heterogeneous networked environment. We consider two mechanisms: online services and content management. Online services are running permanently and continuously on server computers, which are located outside the room. Content management provides additional support for storing and sharing multi-source information among services. The mechanisms are necessary for reliable service construction and delivery, thus leading to higher stability level of Smart Room system runtime.