Towards a Runtime Devices Adaptation in a Multi-Device Environment Based on People's Needs

Internet of Things devices are becoming more and more intelligent. Their ultimate purpose is to perform tasks that help people. In order for these devices to perform their function, they must be configured by users, which implies a considerable investment of effort and time. This configuration also has to also consider that the user's contextual information is constantly changing. Each change in contextual information may require devices to be reconfigured so that their behavior and collaborations with other devices can meet the user's needs. Although this adaptability has already been achieved, it is still a too manual process, which involves a great deal of effort by people. This paper presents the Situational-Context as a proposal to achieve a context adaptation of IoT devices at runtime avoiding human intervention. Thanks to our work we achieve a multi-device collaborative environment that facilitates collaboration between people and devices automatically and with less effort from people.