Design of Smart Home Implementation within IoT with Natural Language Interface

Abstract

Automation of buildings is currently undergoing a rapid development of technologies and approaches to provide sophisticated management of operational and technical features of residential, administrative or industrial buildings to minimize energy consumption, reduce operating costs, and increase comfort for residents of these buildings. These goals lead to the development, innovation, and new implementations of Smart Home and Smart Home Care. In this article, the authors focus on how to interconnect standardized KNX system of the Smart Home and the cloud-based IoT platform which serves as an integration layer. Discussing disadvantages of the IoT platform the authors come with further concepts that can be used when dealing with the possibly huge amount of events in the whole system. The latter part of this article presents a way how the system is enriched with natural language interface using cloud services. This allows interacting with the Smart Home in a way that is very close to the behavior of human beings. Using all described components, the overall architecture of the Smart Home system is presented and discussed.