An Ontology Based Semantic Service Model in Smart Home Environment

Although a great of achievements have been obtained in smart home fields in recent years, there are still two fatal drawbacks. First the smart home system cannot really understand itself; second the system is hard to modify if some of the devices have been changed. By given inspiration from the semantic web, we integrate the semantic character into our smart home system and create an ontology based semantic service model (OSSM) as the middleware of our system. Simulation in a virtual environment represents that OSSM can be used in a real time decision making circumstance and its semantic way of processing makes the whole system much smarter.