Journal's Facebook pageDevelopment of Middleware Architecture to Realize Context-Aware Service in Smart Home Environment
- Department of Electronic Engineering, Kwangwoon University
Seoul, 139-701, Republic of Korea
{khw, robiul, tjgusrb92, shyang}@kw.ac.kr
Abstract
A smart home provides automated services based on the context of the home environment and user activity. Context acquiring, processing, reasoning, and disseminating to the services are complex tasks for a context-aware system. An appropriate middleware architecture could handle such complexity. In this paper, we proposed a middleware architecture for a context-aware system in smart home environment. Here, the context is modeled based on ontology using Web Ontology Language (OWL). In addition, a profile applied improved rule-based reasoning algorithm is integrated into this middleware to infer high-level contexts from available low-level contexts. Experimental result shows that the middleware provides more accurate and faster reasoning outcome compare with the traditional rule-based reasoning method. Moreover, context-aware service is also selected using the rule-based algorithm, where the service can be extended easily by adding new service rules in the service rule base.
Key words
context-aware, middleware, ontology, profile, reasoning, service, smart home
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.2298/CSIS150701010H
Publication information
Volume 13, Issue 2 (June 2016)
Year of Publication: 2016
ISSN: 2406-1018 (Online)
Publisher: ComSIS Consortium
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Kim, H., Hoque, M. R., Seo, H., Yang, S.: Development of Middleware Architecture to Realize Context-Aware Service in Smart Home Environment. Computer Science and Information Systems, Vol. 13, No. 2, 427–452. (2016), https://doi.org/10.2298/CSIS150701010H
