An Ontology for Smart Home Design
Akaash Videsh Reedoy, Shankar Bhawani Dayal, Prenellyn Govender, Jean Vincent Fonou-Dombeu · 2021
Smart homes are becoming very fashionable. However, the construction of smart homes is still a developing industry. Thus, there are currently no standard criteria for defining smart homes. And since there is also no standard design model for smart homes, this study develops an ontology to formalise the design of smart homes. The aim of this smart home ontology is to provide useful information to DIY enthusiasts all the way up to architects to model a Smart Home. An iterative process was used to develop this smart home ontology. Existing ontologies and literature were used to gain a better understanding of how to model the ontology. The resulting smart home ontology can help to understand better the structure or framework of a smart home and how all the devices are interconnected and how smart homes can make peoples' everyday lives easier as well as reducing the carbon footprint.