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

Marjan Alirezaie¹, Jennifer Renoux², Uwe Köckemann³

¹Center for Applied Autonomous Sensor Systems, Örebro University, 70182 Örebro, Sweden. marjan.alirezaie@oru.se.

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Summary

The E-care@home framework uses Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure and ontologies for smart home monitoring. This enables semantic interpretation of events and context awareness for users needing special care.

Keywords:

Internet of Things activity recognition ambient assisted living context awareness ontologies smart homes

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Area of Science:

Computer Science
Artificial Intelligence
Ubiquitous Computing

Background:

Smart home environments offer potential for long-term monitoring of individuals with special needs.
Heterogeneous sensors in smart homes collect health and environmental data.
Aging at home requires robust monitoring solutions.

Purpose of the Study:

To present the E-care@home framework for smart home monitoring.
To enable semantic interpretation of data from heterogeneous IoT devices.
To promote context awareness and activity recognition for users needing special care.

Main Methods:

Developed an Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure for data integration.
Utilized ontologies for unambiguous data meaning and semantic interpretation.
Employed an incremental answer set solver for stream reasoning to deduce activities.

Main Results:

Integrated heterogeneous sensor measurements using ontologies.
Enabled semantic interpretation of events and context awareness.
Demonstrated context recognition based on activities and events in a smart home instantiation.

Conclusions:

The E-care@home framework facilitates smart home monitoring for users with special needs.
Ontology-based semantic interpretation enhances context awareness.
The framework supports the goal of enabling individuals to age at home safely.