Ontology-Based Smart Home Solution and Service Composition

An ontology-based framework is proposed to facilitate the automatic composition of appropriate applications for smart homes that dynamically adjusts the environment parameters to match the customer needs and to encompass the available resource.

Abstract

Given the diversity of home environment, appliances, and residents, the applications for smart homes must be configurable and adaptive. Instead of programming each household, we propose an ontology-based framework to facilitate the automatic composition of appropriate applications. The system composes appropriate services depending upon the available equipments in each individual household automatically. Meanwhile, it dynamically adjusts the environment parameters to match the customer needs and to encompass the available resource. With its supporting on customized function template editing, customers are able to specify their usual behavior templates as different mode.