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T1 - HolonCraft-An Architecture for Dynamic Construction of Smart Home Workflows
AU - Wang, Zhuo
AU - Elkhatib, Yehia
AU - Elhabbash, Abdessalam
N1 - ©2022 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or to reuse any copyrighted component of this work in other works must be obtained from the IEEE.
PY - 2022/10/10
Y1 - 2022/10/10
N2 - Smart home systems have developed rapidly and entered the daily lives of many people. However, it is difficult for products from different manufacturers to work together due to the interoperability barriers posed by divergent hardware, communication protocols and APIs. In this paper, we introduce HolonCraft as a tool to help the regular IoT user in building complex systems. HolonCraft builds on the Holon ontology which enables systems to share their descriptions so that devices can recognize and understand each other and their respective functions, and work together through composing a system of systems (SoS) at runtime to fulfill a given user workflow. HolonCraft extends the machine-readable information provided by the Holon ontology and uses open-source editors (namely Google Blockly and Microsoft Monaco) to implement a cross-platform graphical programming editor for smart home automation. HolonCraft automatically transforms device capabilities into visual programming elements, enabling users without programming backgrounds to design smart home automation through simple drag-And-drop operations while also supporting advanced programming features such as branches, loops and functions. It then type-checks the composed workflow and, accordingly, generates code to actualize it. In consequence, HolonCraft dramatically improves the abstraction and expressiveness of automation as indicated by our user experiments.
AB - Smart home systems have developed rapidly and entered the daily lives of many people. However, it is difficult for products from different manufacturers to work together due to the interoperability barriers posed by divergent hardware, communication protocols and APIs. In this paper, we introduce HolonCraft as a tool to help the regular IoT user in building complex systems. HolonCraft builds on the Holon ontology which enables systems to share their descriptions so that devices can recognize and understand each other and their respective functions, and work together through composing a system of systems (SoS) at runtime to fulfill a given user workflow. HolonCraft extends the machine-readable information provided by the Holon ontology and uses open-source editors (namely Google Blockly and Microsoft Monaco) to implement a cross-platform graphical programming editor for smart home automation. HolonCraft automatically transforms device capabilities into visual programming elements, enabling users without programming backgrounds to design smart home automation through simple drag-And-drop operations while also supporting advanced programming features such as branches, loops and functions. It then type-checks the composed workflow and, accordingly, generates code to actualize it. In consequence, HolonCraft dramatically improves the abstraction and expressiveness of automation as indicated by our user experiments.
KW - IoT
KW - Ontology
KW - Smart Home Automation
KW - Visual Programming Language
U2 - 10.1109/FiCloud57274.2022.00036
DO - 10.1109/FiCloud57274.2022.00036
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
AN - SCOPUS:85141500001
T3 - Proceedings - 2022 International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud, FiCloud 2022
SP - 213
EP - 220
BT - Proceedings - 2022 International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud, FiCloud 2022
A2 - Younas, Muhammad
A2 - Awan, Irfan
A2 - Rahayu, Wenny
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 9th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud, FiCloud 2022
Y2 - 22 August 2022 through 24 August 2022
ER -