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SESAME-S: Semantic Smart Home System for Energy Efficiency

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As the urgent need for efficient and sustainable energy usage becomes ever more apparent, interest in Smart Homes is on the rise. The SESAME-S project (SEmantic SmArt Metering – Services for Energy Efficient Houses) uses semantically linked data to actively assist end-consumers in making well-informed decisions and controlling their energy consumption. By integrating smart metering and home automation functionality, SESAME-S works to effectively address the potential mass market of end-consumers with an easily customizable solution that can be widely implemented in domestic or business environments, with expected savings of over 20 % from the total energy bill. The developed system is a basis for conceptualizing, demonstrating, and evaluating a variety of innovative end-consumer services and their user interface paradigms. In this paper, we present the SESAME-S system as a whole and discuss the semantically enabled services, demonstrating that such systems may have broad acceptance in the future. The data obtained through such systems will be invaluable for future global energy-efficiency strategies and businesses.

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  1. The Telecommunications Research Center Vienna (FTW), Vienna, Austria

    Anna Fensel, Slobodanka Tomic & Vikash Kumar

  2. Semantic Technology Institute (STI) Innsbruck, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

    Anna Fensel

  3. E-Smart Systems d.o.o., Belgrade, Serbia

    Milan Stefanovic

  4. Experimental Factory of Scientific Engineering, Chernogolovka, Russia

    Sergey V. Aleshin & Dmitry O. Novikov

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Fensel, A., Tomic, S., Kumar, V. et al. SESAME-S: Semantic Smart Home System for Energy Efficiency. Informatik Spektrum 36, 46–57 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00287-012-0665-9

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