Home and person focused event framework

Abstract

While networked devices have been proliferating in the home, the systems utilizing them typically operate in isolation from each other. This is partly due to the lack of a common framework that facilitates the exchange of information across these systems. Hence, we envision a home and person focused extensible event framework that provides a platform for dissemination, storage, and retrieval of events generated by such networked devices, and facilitates the extraction of high level semantics information through the application of event fusion algorithms. This will enable the delivery of personalized and relevant information to the users, and provide opportunities for new services activated by intelligent events