The Research On The Business Model Of The Service Of Context Awareness Based On Cloud Computing

The service of Context-awareness has been seen as one of the most important development in mobile business application. Companies and institutions home and abroad has studied on it for almost20years, but the application develops very slowly. When it comes to the need of technology breakthrough of hardware and software, cloud-computing from Internet technology and computer technology brings hope to the service of context-awareness. Through the cloud, the cloud technology improves the running speed of intelligent equipment, solves the problem of lacking infrastructures for the companies, add computing ability and storage space to the server and so on. The paper is just researching on the business model of the service of context-awareness based on cloud-computing, in order to improve the development of the service of context-awareness on theory.The paper is divided into five parts. The first part is the introduction, telling the meaning and the background of the paper, the theory research meaning, the application meaning, the methods and contents of the paper. The second part is the literature review, telling the development and current situation of context-awareness and its service and cloud-computing and its application, the theory of business model. The third part is the research, in which studies the function of cloud-computing in the service of context-awareness, the service model, the security problem. The fourth part is the research on business model from the value-chain, operation model, profit model and cooperation model. The last part is the summary and future research directions.