Context reasoning for smart homes using case-based reasoning

The realization of a smart home relies on how to integrate consumer electronics for a good use. The communication technologies play an important role, but providing a timely and suitable service to users depends on understanding user request in a context. This article reports the definition of the context model for a smart home and how to reason on that model to provide suitable services. The prototype system integrates a context-aware system with an OSGi platform to allow the context-aware system to operate home devices easily. Case-based reasoning is used determining user behaviors and suggests a service fitting to the needs. Personal ontology is kept as cases that represent user preferences, and the system will use this information to choose the suitable services for users.