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| Title: |
Rule-based Approaches for Energy Savings in an Ambient Intelligence Environment |
| Author(s): |
T. Stavropoulos, E. Kontopoulos, N. Bassiliades, J. Argyriou, A. Bikakis, D. Vrakas, I. Vlahavas.
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| Availability: |
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| Keywords: |
defeasible logic, smart building, energy savings, ambient intelligence, semantic web services.
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| Appeared in: |
Journal of Pervasive and Mobile Computing, Elsevier, Vol. 19, pp. 1-23, 2015.
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| Abstract: |
This paper presents a novel real-world application for energy savings in a Smart Building environment. The proposed system unifies heterogeneous wireless sensor networks under a Semantic Web Service middleware. Two complementary and mutually exclusive rule-based approaches for enforcing energy-saving policies are proposed: a reactive agent based on production rules and a deliberative agent based on defeasible logic. The system was deployed at a Greek University, showing promising experimental results (at least 4% daily savings). Although the percentage of energy savings may seem low, the greatest merit of the method is ensuring no energy is wasted by constantly enforcing the policies. |
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