A Study on Crises Management System in Collaborative Smart Homes

The aim of this study is to introduce a system and infrastructure for facing out-of-control crisis in adjacent smart homes using ubiquitous computing aspects. The design of the smart home systems applies knowledge to generate a flexible, comfortable, healthy and efficient environment that enhances the quality of residents' life. In smart environments, management server is the entry point of access to each subsystem, acting as a residential middleware. In some critical events, standalone management system is not enough efficient for handling the anomalies like fire. This study proposes a coordinating system that deals with abnormal situations and community aspects of smart buildings in a ubiquitous computing environment. Coordinator system finds suitable surrounding parties for cooperation in solving the problem based on their profile, which includes location, list of facilities and working devices. Proposed system has three major processes, which are situation monitoring, reasoning and issuing a proper command. System architecture includes community mediator and reasoning as well as situation interpreting component. Message transmission and communication method are needed for the situation obtaining from smart home management servers. Java platform and web services are selected for this purpose. This study is able to extend the smart space's ability detect anomalies based on the contextual information gathered and interpreted. Thanks to director system, inhabitants are safer and more secure in the event of an emergency.

Keywords:

Crisis Management , Ubiquitous Computing , Smart Home , Collaboration