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Flexible Management of Ambient Assisted Living Environments by Ontology-Based Configuration

Authors:
Tom Zentek
Jürgen Bock
Asarnusch Rashid

Keywords: ambient assisted living; configuration; semantic; knowledge-based configuration; OWL; smart environment; ambient intelligence

Abstract:
Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) environments are Smart Environments supporting elderly people and their caregivers in their daily life. Such environments are characterised by a wide heterogeneity of software, hardware, and human components as well as rapidly changing needs of the assisted persons. Therefore, flexible management is a crucial success criterion for AAL environments that has not been addressed in the state of the art of AAL research yet. In this paper, we propose an ontology-based configuration framework that fills this gap. Using ontologies to describe AAL environments enables a common understanding and a reusable semantic representation of AAL use cases. This improves the flexibility needed to configure the environment in order to deal with changing individual needs of the assisted persons.

Pages: 16 to 20

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2015

Publication date: July 19, 2015

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2326-9324

ISBN: 978-1-61208-421-3

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from July 19, 2015 to July 24, 2015