Up in the Air: When Homes Meet the Web of Things
Lina Yao, Quan Z. Sheng, Boualem Benatallah, Schahram Dustdar, Xianzhi, Wang, Ali Shemshadi, and Anne H.H. Ngu

TL;DR
This paper presents WITS, a practical WoT-based smart home system designed to unobtrusively monitor elderly residents, enabling personalized, context-aware services to support independent living.
Contribution
It introduces a layered framework for managing physical and resident data in WoT environments, with a focus on a prototype for elderly care.
Findings
WITS enables unobtrusive elderly monitoring in real homes.
The system supports personalized, context-aware services.
Practical experience demonstrates feasibility of WoT in smart homes.
Abstract
The emerging Internet of Things (IoT) will comprise billions of Web-enabled objects (or "things") where such objects can sense, communicate, compute and potentially actuate. WoT is essentially the embodiment of the evolution from systems linking digital documents to systems relating digital information to real-world physical items. It is widely understood that significant technical challenges exist in developing applications in the WoT environment. In this paper, we report our practical experience in the design and development of a smart home system in a WoT environment. Our system provides a layered framework for managing and sharing the information produced by physical things as well as the residents. We particularly focus on a research prototype named WITS, that helps the elderly live independently and safely in their own homes, with minimal support from the decreasing number of…
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Taxonomy
TopicsContext-Aware Activity Recognition Systems · IoT-based Smart Home Systems · Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
