An Ontology Based Support for Smart Home Planning

Abstract:

The amount of products for smart homes and the heterogeneous standards interconnecting them is overwhelming. Consequently, choosing the most suitable technical solution according to the resident’s lifestyle is often confusing. In this paper, we propose an ontology to support the planning process of a scenario based personalized smart home (SH). The way that heterogeneous SH components, e.g. sensors, devices and appliances, are represented by our ontology is described. The design process based on this concept includes an assignment between user-specific scenarios and possible technical solutions. Finally, we show the scenario-based utilization of our approach.

• Periodical: Advanced Engineering Forum (Volume 19)
• Pages: 116-123
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AEF.19.116
• Online since: October 2016
• Authors: Franziska Schäfer*, Yi Xiao Zhang, Jörg Franke
• Keywords: Ontology, Reasoning, Semantic Rules, Smart Home

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