Context-Based Reasoning in Smart Buildings

Smart buildings integrate various systems to effectively manage resources in a coordinated manner in order to maximize technical performance, operating cost savings and tenant comfort. These buildings are expected to extend beyond simple automation to include advanced user interfaces, and automatic building management capable of interacting in real-time. It is not yet clear, however, how to design and implement applications with the entire building structure, services and processes. We discuss the importance of considering context in the operation of smart buildings, and present context-based reasoning as a modeling paradigm to create a general purpose applications.

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