Semantic-based Smart Homes: a Multi-Agent Approach.
Giuseppe Loseto, Floriano Scioscia, Michèle Ruta, Eugenio Di Sciascio · 2012
Ambient Intelligence aims at autonomic coordination and control of appliances and subsystems located in a given environment. Home and Building Automation (HBA) complies with this paradigm but it is based on an explicit interaction with the user and a static set of operational scenarios. This paper proposes a more flexible multi-agent approach, leveraging semantic-based resource discovery and orchestration in HBA. Backward-compatible enhancements to EIB/KNX domotic standard allow to support the semantic characterization of user profiles and device functionalities, so enabling: (i) negotiation of the most suitable home services/functionalities according to implicit and explicit user needs, (ii) device-driven interaction for adapting the environment to context evolution. A power management problem in HBA is presented as a case study to better clarify the proposal and assess its effectiveness.