Detecting Conflicts among Autonomous Devices in Smart Homes
Abstract
Emerging technologies such as Internet-of-Things, sensors, and communication
networks have been introduced into traditional homes to offer a wide range of
smart home services to simplify home appliances or home care and enhance people’s
lifestyles. Currently, the smart home system has been integrated with various
features of the production line and equipped with multiple sensors and actuators
to meet home occupants specifications by setting customized user policies. These
days home automation systems have become widely adopted. When privileged
users interact with a smart home system, their intents of using this system are
probable to be various, which might lead to conflict situations, so the systems
must automatically recognize these conflicts. This work purpose is to investigate
the conflict in smart homes and to build a model that discover these conflicts.
Also, to see the factors that influencing people to accept IFTTT (If This Then
That) technology in smart home.