Modeling eHome systems

Abstract

New developments and decreasing costs of electronic appliances enable the realization of pervasive systems in our daily environment. In our work, we focus on eHome systems. The cost-intensive repetitive development process for every new eHome environment is one of the major problems preventing their widespread use. So, we transformed the repetitive development process to a single one, followed by a repetitive configuration process. To support this configuration process, we introduce a model capable of storing all the parameters relevant for this specific process. To enable semiautomatic configuration based on the model, a specification is required beforehand. In this paper, we will show how the necessary specification is covered by the introduced model, and how the model supports the eHome system configuration and context inferring at runtime.