Abstract
Systems for home automation can make a vital contribution to the wellbeing of individuals requiring moderate amounts of support for day-to-day living. Existing systems suffer both from competing and often closed standards bases and from a message-based architecture that can complicate the development of flexible applications requiring information from disparate sources. We describe a knowledge-based pervasive computing middleware and show how it can be used to provide semantically rich unification over a range of home- and web-based automation systems.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Smart homes and beyond |
Publisher | IOS Press |
Pages | 281-288 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Publication status | Published - 2006 |
Keywords
- Middleware
- Pervasive Computing
- Assisted Living