Service-oriented smart home applications: composition, code generation, deployment, and execution

Abstract

A smart home usually has a variety of devices or home appliance, instead of designing software for a specific home, this paper proposes a service-oriented framework with a set of ontology systems to support service and device publishing, discovery of devices and their services, composition of control software using existing control services that wrap devices, deployment, and execution of the composed service in an computing environment, monitoring the execution, and recovery from device failure. The ontology systems specify semantic information about devices, services, and workflows used in various smart home, and users can compose and recompose services for their specific needs. New devices, workflows, and services can be added into ontology. Most of the steps in this process can be automated including code generation. For example, service composition will be carried out in three steps: abstract workflow design, function construction, and device discovery, and different codes can be generated for different computing platforms such as Java and Open Services Gateway initiative environments. In this way, a variety of smart home can be constructed rapidly using the framework by discovery and composition using existing services and workflows. This paper illustrates this framework using a media control example to illustrate the ontology, discovery, composition, deployment, execution, monitoring, and recovery.

Systematic mapping study of template-based code generation

“…Validation through a case study obtained a similar score. For example in [52], the authors propose a service-oriented framework with a set of ontology systems to support service and device publishing, discovery and recovery for smart homes. In order to validate their approach, they implement their concept in the particular case of the MediaControl view only.…”

Evaluation of Service Transactions and Selection of Quality Offered Services in a Business Environment

“…Using this technique a client can easily search the service from a group of services. Li et al (2012), introduces and designed the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) framework for smart home applications. From this a customer can access the required smart home applications from the given choice of services.…”

Ontology-based data semantic management and application in IoT- and cloud-enabled smart homes

“…In service-rich smart home scenario, to provide users with accurate and personalized services, ontology theory and technology as promising means are widely used to construct the service-oriented smart home framework currently. Li et al [16] propose a service-oriented framework with a set of ontology systems to support service and device publishing, discovery and composition, with which, smart home can be rapidly constructed by discovering and combining existing services and workflows. With the analysis of smart home domain ontology, to construct a semantic context for inferring the interaction of policies, Hu et al [17] propose a semantic web-based policy interaction detection method with rules to model smart home services and policies.…”

“…Representation, management and application of the heterogeneous data in the smart home data space to provide more intelligent and personalized services for home users still have been considered as a challenging research and industrial topic. Recently, ontology theory and technology have been identified as the representative promising means that can be used to address data, knowledge, and application heterogeneity [10,11,12,13,14,15], as well as to construct the service-oriented framework in smart home environments [16,17,18,19,20,21]. Inspired by the previous research achievements in the proposals, a scheme of ontology-based data semantic management and application is proposed in this paper to address the challenges put forwarded by the continuous expanding smart home data space, which has the following main contributions.…”