A3ME — generic middleware for information exchange in heterogeneous environments.

This paper presents a proof of concept for a generic middleware for heterogeneous sensor/actuator networks, which enables ad-hoc discovery, self-description exchange and basic interactions between heterogeneous devices. The main approach is to represent each device by a device-agent which knows its capabilities, constraints and policies, and is able to describe those to other devices on request. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]