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

Smart home environments have a significant potential to provide for long-term monitoring of users with special needs in order to promote the possibility to age at home. Such environments are typically equipped with a number of heterogeneous sensors that monitor both health and environmental paramete...

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Autores principales: Alirezaie, Marjan, Renoux, Jennifer, Köckemann, Uwe, Kristoffersson, Annica, Karlsson, Lars, Blomqvist, Eva, Tsiftes, Nicolas, Voigt, Thiemo, Loutfi, Amy
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5539647/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28684686
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s17071586
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author Alirezaie, Marjan
Renoux, Jennifer
Köckemann, Uwe
Kristoffersson, Annica
Karlsson, Lars
Blomqvist, Eva
Tsiftes, Nicolas
Voigt, Thiemo
Loutfi, Amy
author_facet Alirezaie, Marjan
Renoux, Jennifer
Köckemann, Uwe
Kristoffersson, Annica
Karlsson, Lars
Blomqvist, Eva
Tsiftes, Nicolas
Voigt, Thiemo
Loutfi, Amy
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description Smart home environments have a significant potential to provide for long-term monitoring of users with special needs in order to promote the possibility to age at home. Such environments are typically equipped with a number of heterogeneous sensors that monitor both health and environmental parameters. This paper presents a framework called E-care@home, consisting of an IoT infrastructure, which provides information with an unambiguous, shared meaning across IoT devices, end-users, relatives, health and care professionals and organizations. We focus on integrating measurements gathered from heterogeneous sources by using ontologies in order to enable semantic interpretation of events and context awareness. Activities are deduced using an incremental answer set solver for stream reasoning. The paper demonstrates the proposed framework using an instantiation of a smart environment that is able to perform context recognition based on the activities and the events occurring in the home.
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spelling pubmed-55396472017-08-11 An Ontology-based Context-aware System for Smart Homes: E-care@home Alirezaie, Marjan Renoux, Jennifer Köckemann, Uwe Kristoffersson, Annica Karlsson, Lars Blomqvist, Eva Tsiftes, Nicolas Voigt, Thiemo Loutfi, Amy Sensors (Basel) Article Smart home environments have a significant potential to provide for long-term monitoring of users with special needs in order to promote the possibility to age at home. Such environments are typically equipped with a number of heterogeneous sensors that monitor both health and environmental parameters. This paper presents a framework called E-care@home, consisting of an IoT infrastructure, which provides information with an unambiguous, shared meaning across IoT devices, end-users, relatives, health and care professionals and organizations. We focus on integrating measurements gathered from heterogeneous sources by using ontologies in order to enable semantic interpretation of events and context awareness. Activities are deduced using an incremental answer set solver for stream reasoning. The paper demonstrates the proposed framework using an instantiation of a smart environment that is able to perform context recognition based on the activities and the events occurring in the home. MDPI 2017-07-06 /pmc/articles/PMC5539647/ /pubmed/28684686 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s17071586 Text en © 2017 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Alirezaie, Marjan
Renoux, Jennifer
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Kristoffersson, Annica
Karlsson, Lars
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Tsiftes, Nicolas
Voigt, Thiemo
Loutfi, Amy
An Ontology-based Context-aware System for Smart Homes: E-care@home
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title_full_unstemmed An Ontology-based Context-aware System for Smart Homes: E-care@home
title_short An Ontology-based Context-aware System for Smart Homes: E-care@home
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5539647/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28684686
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s17071586
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