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An Ontology-based Context-aware System for Smart Homes: E-care@home

Authors :
Marjan Alirezaie
Jennifer Renoux
Uwe Köckemann
Annica Kristoffersson
Lars Karlsson
Eva Blomqvist
Nicolas Tsiftes
Thiemo Voigt
Amy Loutfi
Source :
Sensors, Vol 17, Iss 7, p 1586 (2017)
Publication Year :
2017
Publisher :
MDPI AG, 2017.

Abstract

Smart home environments have a significant potential to provide for long-term monitoring of users with special needs in order to promote the possibility to age at home. Such environments are typically equipped with a number of heterogeneous sensors that monitor both health and environmental parameters. This paper presents a framework called E-care@home, consisting of an IoT infrastructure, which provides information with an unambiguous, shared meaning across IoT devices, end-users, relatives, health and care professionals and organizations. We focus on integrating measurements gathered from heterogeneous sources by using ontologies in order to enable semantic interpretation of events and context awareness. Activities are deduced using an incremental answer set solver for stream reasoning. The paper demonstrates the proposed framework using an instantiation of a smart environment that is able to perform context recognition based on the activities and the events occurring in the home.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
14248220
Volume :
17
Issue :
7
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
Sensors
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.892c6c455824033a5d960d9ecace0b7
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.3390/s17071586