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A Semantics-Rich Information Technology Architecture for Smart Buildings

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Bonino, Dario, Corno, Fulvio, De Russis, Luigi·2014·Buildings
DOI 10.3390/buildings4040880
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The design of smart homes, buildings and environments currently suffers from a low maturity of available methodologies and tools. Technologies, devices and protocols strongly bias the design process towards vertical integration, and more flexible solutions based on separation of design concerns are seldom applied. As a result, the current landscape of smart environments is mostly populated by defectively designed solutions where application requirements (e.g., end-user functionality) are too often mixed and intertwined with technical requirements (e.g., managing the network of devices). A mature and effective design process must, instead, rely on a clear separation between the application layer and the underlying enabling technologies, to enable effective design reuse. The role of smart gateways is to enable this separation of concerns and to provide an abstracted view of available automation technology to higher software layers. This paper presents a blueprint for the information technology (IT) architecture of smart buildings that builds on top of established software engineering practices, such as model-driven development and semantic representation, and that avoids many pitfalls inherent in legacy approaches. The paper will also present a representative use case where the approach has been applied and the corresponding modeling and software tools.

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Authors
Bonino, D., Corno, F., & De Russis, L.
Affiliations
  • Politecnico di Torino (IT)
  • Department of Control and Computer Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino, Italy
Corresponding author
Corno, Fulvio
ORCID
Venue
Buildings
Publisher
MDPI AG
Published
2014-11-04
Volume
4
Issue
4
Pages
880-910
ISSN
2075-5309 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.3390/buildings4040880
OpenAlex
W2017294333
Cited by
15
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FWCI
0.89
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
Locations
  • Buildings (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PORTO@Iris (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • PORTO Publications Open Repository TOrino (Politecnico di Torino) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Funders
  • Regione Autonoma Valle d'Aosta
  • Regione Piemonte
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › IoT-based Smart Home Systems
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Software › Model-Driven Software Engineering Techniques
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Software › Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies
Keywords
smart buildings, IT architecture, home automation, separation of concerns, smart gateway, model-driven engineering, semantic representation, design reuse, building automation, vertical integration

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