Enabling smart behavior through automatic service composition for Internet of Things–based Smart Homes

This article presents an Internet of Things architecture for Smart Homes that specifically targets service composition and reconfiguration as enablers for the actuation and smart behavior capabilities. To this end, the main challenge that has to be addressed is the support to a seamless integration,...

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Authors: Santofimia Romero, María José, Villa Alises, David, Aceña Herrera, Óscar, Toro García, Xavier del, Trapero Mora, Cristian, Villanueva Molina, Félix Jesús, López López, Juan Carlos
Format: article
Publication Date:2018
Country:España
Institution:Fundación Dialnet. Universidad de La Rioja
Repository:RUIdeRA. Repositorio Institucional de la UCLM
OAI Identifier:oai:ruidera.uclm.es:10578/45461
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/1550147718794616
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1550147718794616
https://hdl.handle.net/10578/45461
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:automatic service composition
Internet of Things
service semantics
Smart Homes
virtual networking
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Summary:This article presents an Internet of Things architecture for Smart Homes that specifically targets service composition and reconfiguration as enablers for the actuation and smart behavior capabilities. To this end, the main challenge that has to be addressed is the support to a seamless integration, composition, and reconfiguration of Internet of Things objects. Two enabling technologies are proposed here: a planning strategy based on a common-sense reasoning approach for service composition and a virtual-network protocol for Inter-Domain Messaging. The planner will identify the services that, properly connected, will cater for arisen, and therefore, unexpected needs. The virtual-network protocol will provide the support for this interconnection to take place in a transparent and orthogonal manner. This is particularly important to enable autonomous systems to instantiate composite services. To demonstrate the capabilities of the resulting framework, two use cases are presented, which under real circumstances demonstrate the potential of the proposed approach.