Design and Development of an Intelligent Ontology-Based Solution for Energy Management in the Home

The rapid development of the people life mode and the electrical devices use, including the search for the man to live in luxury and comfort, led to an uncontrollable consumption of electricity which leads to the allocation of funds to pay the bills for electricity consumed. This current problem requires severe treatment. To this end, we propose this solution to ensure energy saving without neglecting the well-being of individuals. The habitat is a complex, open and distributed systems, it includes a diversity of electrical equipment, which is characterized by a volume important information, which requires a good tool for the representation and treatment of knowledge. Thanks to this work, we try to offer a solution to all the problems mentioned above. This solution is based primarily on the Ontology and the Semantic Web to represent in a formal manner and explicit information that characterize the residential system and its environment. Finally, we chose OWL (Web Ontology Language) as a tool of knowledge representation, the rules SWRL (Semantic Web Rules Language) who have involved in the intelligent aspect of the solution and the “Protege” software for the edition and the update of the data of the habitat and its environment. To evaluate the results of our solution, we applied our solution to the city of Adrar in Algeria.