An approach to modeling Internet of Things based smart built environments
Denis Gračanin, Krešimir Matković, Joseph Wheeler · 2015
Smart built environments enhanced with technology can improve the lives of individuals, groups, and the broader community. We describe an approach to modeling IOT-based smart built environments that uses a large-scale virtual environment where a building model is aligned with the physical space. This approach takes advantages of affordances and embodied cognition in a large physical space to model user interaction with built spaces. The built space contains `smart objects' with embedded sensors/actuators/controllers (e.g., kitchen appliances). A `smart object' has the corresponding virtual object in the virtual environment. A case study (FutureHAUS) demonstrates the proposed approach.