Composition of Services for Notification in Smart Homes

Giving notifications in a timely manner is an essential service that smart home should provide. Communication of resident¿s data to their doctor, health care provider or family member via email, phone call, or text message is indispensable. In order to reduce the cost, improve extendibility and reduce the developer¿s burden and learning curve, we propose a service-oriented notification system. This system has different simple services which provide essential communication needs, and by composing these services with applications more sophisticated needs can also be satisfied. A detailed description and the architecture are elaborated below.