Decentralized supervision for home automation

Today many home automation technologies exist and new ones are emerging, especially wireless. However, those technologies are incompatible with each other and address only the communication protocols and physical media used to interconnect the home automation devices. No normalized solutions exist specifically for the supervision of home automation systems and the definition of the required behavior for a home. In this paper we tackle this problem. We start by presenting an abstract model for home automation devices, independent of the technology used. Next we address system supervision and propose a model to specify the intended behavior for a home. This model is easily understood by common users and allows building generic interfaces to define and modify the behavior of homes. Finally, we propose a decentralized architecture to implement our system supervision approach, offering a flexible and scalable solution