Smart homes are driven by heterogeneity in nature and consist of diverse components that promote user comfort and security. In recent times, tremendous growth of Internet of Things (IoTs) applications is seen in smart homes. The huge diversity of various IoTs applications generally leads to interoperability requirements that need to be fulfilled. Current IoTs management is achieved using physical platforms that lack intelligence on decision making. A proactive architecture that deploys Event-Condition-Action (ECA) method is proposed to resolve the management of heterogeneous IoTs in smart homes. The proactive architecture, developed with a core repository stores persistent data of IoTs schema, proved to be an ideal solution in solving interoperability in smart homes.
Intelligent buildings require various gadgets and sensors to automatically control the underlying environments with enhanced levels of comfort and efficiency. The ever-evolving technology and increasingly complex devices operated by heterogeneous systems have created challenges for intelligent building environments. Multi-platform type of heterogeneous systems functioning in intelligent building environments can lead to system failures with regard to deadlocks and unpredictable behavior, known as conflict occurrence. In this paper, we propose a new decision-making model with a weighted-priority scheduling algorithm that solves the conflicts to achieve efficient and sustainable communication response among heterogeneous systems. The experimental results demonstrate the enhanced response time of the model with conflict resolution. Furthermore, this model minimizes the external intervention to control the setting of such buildings.
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