I-Corps: Owl Platform:Simple Sensing for Smart Homes

该平台提供了一种硬件中立的方式来开发传感和泛在计算应用程序。它专注于将传感应用程序提供给更大的用户和开发人员社区。它围绕两个核心概念展开：系统设计的分层方法，以及一组简单的网络API和数据抽象。设计和简单的编程模型使新手开发人员能够快速设计和开发新的、有创意的应用程序。该项目的重点是降低希望集成传感器信息的应用程序开发人员所需的知识和技能。它通过简单的数据结构和信息模型以及分层的基于网络的API来实现这一点，该API向开发人员隐藏了不必要的细节，使他们能够专注于特定的任务。虽然商品传感器和软件每天都变得更容易获得，但这些系统输出的编程接口与系统支持的传感器紧密绑定在一起。研究人员认为，该平台是朝着传感系统迈出的积极的第一步，传感系统足够灵活和通用，足以支持比竞争系统更广泛的传感器阵列。

This platform presents a hardware-neutral way of developing sensing and ubiquitous computing applications. It is focused on making sensing application available to a larger community of users and developers. It is centered around 2 core concepts: a layered approach to system design, and a set of simple network APIs and data abstractions. The design and simple programming model make it possible for novice developers to rapidly design and develop new and creative applications. The project focuses on lowering the knowledge and skill required of application developers that wish to integrate sensor information. It does this through a combination of simple data structures and information models, and a layered network-based API that hides unnecessary details from developers, freeing them to focus on specific tasks.While commodity sensors and software are becoming more readily available every day, the programming interfaces exported by those systems are tightly bound to the sensors the system supports. Researchers believe that this platform presents a positive first step toward sensing systems that are flexible and general-purpose enough to support a wider array of sensors than is possible in competing systems.