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A smart IoT middleware for comfort management based on Multi-Agent-System

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WIMS '18: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3227609.3227683

Published: 25 June 2018 Publication History

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In this paper we propose a new approach of comfort management based on a smart IoT middleware composed of a Knowledge Base (KB) and a Multi-Agent System (MAS). Those elements allow users in a room to interact with the system to request in a simple and natural way the change of one or more comfort elements (including temperature, humidity, luminosity, noise, ventilation and air quality). Shared knowledge fed by the IoT network is used by smart layers (KB and MAS) to reason and propose an action on one or more IoT devices. The implementation is based on underlying ontologies of comfort and actions, real-world IoT devices and a set of agents representing each actuator. These latter participate to the global system's organization by playing a specific role and by having to reach local goals. Distribution of tasks and emergence of behaviour will result in the selection of actions to execute in order to meet this request for comfort change.

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Stahl CGateau BNaudet YPruski C(2023)Research agenda for IoT-based comfort management systems in open-plan office spacesProceedings of the 16th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments10.1145/3594806.3596540(468-474)Online publication date: 5-Jul-2023
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Stahl CGateau BNaudet YPruski C(2023)Research agenda for IoT-based comfort management systems in open-plan office spacesProceedings of the 16th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments10.1145/3594806.3596540(468-474)Online publication date: 5-Jul-2023
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Rakib AFaruqui R(2019)Model checking ontology‐driven reasoning agents using strategy and abstractionConcurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience10.1002/cpe.520533:2Online publication date: 7-Apr-2019
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