u-Lab: A ubiquitous computing based architecture to labs works using Wireless Sensor Network and Radio-Frequency Identification

Abstract

Wireless Sensor Networks and Radio Frequency Identification are two technologies that are being used together to monitor and identify objects and people. Their application may cover from a supermarket storage section to a forest monitoring process, having to face a diversity of problems within the scope of Computer Science and Engineering. The present work proposes the use of these technologies in the scope of Education - more specifically in the area of laboratory practice, using a formal modeling technique called Coloured Petri Networks for creating the initial models that would form the architecture of the proposed solution.