What is it about?
More and more smart devices are becoming part of our daily life. These devices, e.g., smartphones, smart lights, vacuum cleaners, smart fridges and smart TVs, are connected to the Internet and can talk to each other. With our system, these intelligent devices can be instructed to work on processes and automating daily routines together. As a resident of the smart home, you can describe your daily routines and how the smart devices should assist you with these by automating certain steps. These can be simple processes like "switch on all the lights in the living room when I come home in the evening" or "call the emergency hotline when someone has fainted and is laying on the floor".
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Why is it important?
Automation and automatic assistance is becoming more and more important in many domains like elderly care and assisted living. By having the ability to create automated routines among all the devices in a smart home, residents can be assisted with their everyday tasks and thus live longer in their own homes independently of the help from others. Our process system is thereby not only able to execute the specified automation routines among the smart devices, but it can also react to unforeseen situations and adapt processes in case of problems.
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Personally, I find the topic of automation in the context of smart homes to assist people with disabilities extremely important. More and more sophisticted intelligent devices will become part of our everyday lives in the future. Having these devices interact with each other and with the users is becoming increasingly important to gain additional value from the smart devices--compared to them operating standalone and in isolation of each other.
Dr. Ronny Seiger
Universitat Sankt Gallen
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This page is a summary of: A context-adaptive workflow engine for humans, things and services, September 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/2968219.2971369.
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