DogOnt - Ontology Modeling for Intelligent Domotic Environments

Abstract

Abstract. Home automation has recently gained a new momentum thanks to the ever-increasing commercial availability of domotic components. In this context, researchers are working to provide interoperation mechanisms and to add intelligence on top of them. For supporting intelligent behaviors, house modeling is an essential requirement to understand current and future house states and to possibly drive more complex actions. In this paper we propose a new house modeling ontology designed to fit real world domotic system capabilities and to support interoperation between currently available and future solutions. Taking advantage of technologies developed in the context of the Semantic Web, the DogOnt ontology supports device/network independent description of houses, including both "controllable" and architectural elements. States and functionalities are automatically associated to the modeled elements through proper inheritance mechanisms and by means of properly defined SWRL auto-completion rules which ease the modeling process, while automatic device recognition is achieved through classification reasoning.

DogOnt as a viable seed for semantic modeling of AEC/FM

“…Similarly to most of the ontologies described for the electrical sub-domain, EEOnt builds upon the work done in DogOnt [8] and its extensions. Through DogOnt, appliance properties are exposed according to existing semantic models, while power consumption is modeled by introducing a specific Energy Profile ontology (i.e., PowerOnt [16]).…”

“…ifis.uni-luebeck.de/~groppe/sbd/, last visited on July 4, 2017 sentation, DogOnt 3 , that was firstly published 8 years ago [8] and was initially designed, and developed, to tackle interoperability issues in home automation networks.…”

Semantic analysis and verification of context-driven adaptive applications in intelligent environments

“…Later on, we will use the DogOnt ontology 2 to semantically model the above home automation concepts. This ontology offers an extensive vocabulary (see Table 1 for an overview) to model intelligent domotic environments, with a technology and network-independent description of buildings, rooms, sensors, appliances, and other architectural elements [7].…”

An ontology-driven communication architecture for spontaneous interoperability in Home Automation systems

“…For instance, Bonino et al [7] present a gateway based on OSGi middleware, where heterogeneous devices and systems are integrated by means of an ontology. They model the home structure, its components, their states and functionalities by defining a custom ontology called DogOnt [8].…”

“…The ZigBee SE device is connected to a simple lamp for monitoring its consumption. The driver for controlling the sensors through the Arduino, uses DogOnt [8], an ontology developed by Politecnico di Torino.…”