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Energy saving is nowadays a mandatory requirement for buildings. In this paper, a novel holistic system for intelligent Smart Home environments is introduced, which is able to embrace energy production and consumption in a unique perspective and to handle them in conjunction with device and services management. Semantic Web technologies are employed to foster data interoperability and to supply inference power for intelligent tasks management, decisions making and energy saving. The proposed system uses an IP-based network as main communication channel and a semantic extension of the UPnP technology, to support zero-configuration, automatic discovering and intelligent control. The ontology framework, used to formally describe all relevant information of the Smart Home environment like devices, services and context, is also presented focusing on the device and the energy ontology. In addition, the issue of the lack of Semantic Web compliant device descriptions that currently are not provided by device vendors, posing a serious barrier toward the practical application of semantic technologies in Smart Home scenario, is also tackled.
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Nucci, M., Grassi, M., Piazza, F. (2013). Ontology-Based Device Configuration and Management for Smart Homes. In: Apolloni, B., Bassis, S., Esposito, A., Morabito, F. (eds) Neural Nets and Surroundings. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 19. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35467-0_30
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