Announcing the Smart Spaces Project

The fork of the Interactive Spaces project is complete and I spent a very long time removing every use of the word "interactive" and replacing it with the word "smart".

Smart Spaces is now available at https://github.com/smartspaces-io/smartspaces.

Smart Spaces will not be just concerned about interactivity in a physical space, but also smarts. It is time to get interesting learning algorithms and rules based systems into the package. I also want to increase the abstraction level for talking about events happening in a physical space, both in detecting them and also affecting them. I'm not entirely sure what this will all mean, but it will be fun figuring it out.

The initial effort was merely changing the root package name from interactivespaces to io.smartspaces. I imagine I will be removing instances of interactive for some time.The next major project will be removing all deprecated APIs from the Interactive Spaces days and adding the ability to use MQTT for activity to activity communication, routes in Smart Spaces parlance.

Despite the low initial version number, 0.1.0, this is feature complete to Interactive Spaces 1.8.2 (1.8.1 runs in production in the Google Experience Centers) and is ready for deployment. I just numbered low as I want 1.0.0 to have some of the things that were wanted in Interactive Spaces for some time, such as ROS out of master/space controller communications.

The discussion board is found at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/smartspaces. 

Join us on this adventure.