TY - JOUR A1 - Wojciechowski, Manfred A1 - Pogscheba, Patrick T1 - Building a COVID-Safe Navigation App Using a Meta-Model Based Context Server JF - sensors N2 - Building context-aware applications is an already widely researched topic. It is our belief that context awareness has the potential to supplement the Internet of Things, when a suitable methodology including supporting tools will ease the development of context-aware applications. We believe that a meta-model based approach can be key to achieving this goal. In this paper, we present our meta-model based methodology, which allows us to define and build application-specific context models and the integration of sensor data without any programming. We describe how that methodology is applied with the implementation of a relatively simple context-aware COVID-safe navigation app. The outcome showed that programmers with no experience in context-awareness were able to understand the concepts easily and were able to effectively use it after receiving a short training. Therefore, context-awareness is able to be implemented within a short amount of time. We conclude that this can also be the case for the development of other context-aware applications, which have the same context-awareness characteristics. We have also identified further optimization potential, which we will discuss at the conclusion of this article. KW - context awareness KW - internet of things KW - development methodology KW - meta model KW - context query language Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:due62-opus-39570 SN - 1424-8220 VL - 22 IS - 24 SP - 1 EP - 14 PB - MDPI ER -