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Authors:
Haitham Hamza
Enas Ashraf
Azza Nabih
Mahmoud Abdallah
Ahmed Gamaleldin
Alfredo D'Elia
Hadeal Ismail
Shourok Alaa
Kamilia Hosny
Aya Khattab
Ahmed Attallah
Keywords: Smart home; SOA; Semantic middleware; Smart-M3; SIB; Smart space; Ontology; Interoperability; Extendibility
Abstract:
Smart homes attempt to automate interaction with the environment and existing appliances to optimize resources while maintaining user convenience. Interoperability is a key feature, as well as a main challenge in developing smart systems. This is due to the wide interactions among appliances, users, and the surrounding environment, which are heterogeneous by nature. Moreover, smart systems may evolve over time by integrating new actors, devices, and applications, making extendibility another key challenge in designing such systems. Accordingly, developing a framework that that provides both interoperability and extendibility for smart systems is of a great interest in practice. Accordingly, this paper proposes a framework based on the semantic and service oriented architecture (SOA) technologies for smart homes. The proposed architecture makes use of open source SOA and Smart-M3 framework that provide the core technologies to enable interoperability and extendibility. Ontology is designed and used to enable semantic middleware for integration. The proposed framework is demonstrated using a simple smart home scenario.
Pages: 48 to 53
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2014
Publication date: April 20, 2014
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2308-4006
ISBN: 978-1-61208-330-8
Location: Chamonix, France
Dates: from April 20, 2014 to April 24, 2014