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Jan 20, 2021

Applying Knowledge Inference on Event-Conjunction for Automatic Control in Smart Building

Applied Sciences
  • Hangli Ge, Xiaohui Peng, Noboru Koshizuka

Volume
11
Number
3
First page
935
Last page
935
Language
Publishing type
Research paper (scientific journal)
DOI
10.3390/app11030935
Publisher
MDPI AG

Smart building, one of IoT-based emerging applications is where energy-efficiency, human comfort, automation, security could be managed even better. However, at the current stage, a unified and practical framework for knowledge inference inside the smart building is still lacking. In this paper, we present a practical proposal of knowledge extraction on event-conjunction for automatic control in smart buildings. The proposal consists of a unified API design, ontology model, inference engine for knowledge extraction. Two types of models: finite state machine(FSMs) and bayesian network (BN) have been used for capturing the state transition and sensor data fusion. In particular, to solve the problem that the size of time interval observations between two correlated events was too small to be approximated for estimation, we utilized the Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampling method to optimize the sampling on time intervals. The proposal has been put into use in a real smart building environment. 78-days data collection of the light states and elevator states has been conducted for evaluation. Several events have been inferred in the evaluation, such as room occupancy, elevator moving, as well as the event conjunction of both. The inference on the users’ waiting time of elevator-using revealed the potentials and effectiveness of the automatic control on the elevator.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/app11030935
URL
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/11/3/935/pdf
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  • DOI : 10.3390/app11030935
  • eISSN : 2076-3417

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