SITE: The Simple Internet of Things Enabler for Smart Homes

Autor: Basim Hafidh, Hussein Al Osman, Juan Sebastian Arteaga-Falconi, Haiwei Dong, Abdulmotaleb El Saddik
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: IEEE Access, Vol 5, Pp 2034-2049 (2017)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2169-3536
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2017.2653079
Popis: This paper presents the simple Internet of Things enabler (SITE), a smart home solution that allows users to specify and centrally control Internet of Things smart objects. Unlike most existing systems, SITE supports End-User Development. Hence, it defines a simple language for the specification of control rules for smart objects. It also provides a user interface to graphically illustrate the data received from smart objects. To assess the usability of SITE, we conduct an empirical study involving 20 participants belonging to two user groups: users with technical training (IT users) and users without technical training (non-IT users). We demonstrate that both user groups can satisfactorily build smart objects and define control rules in a smart home environment using SITE.
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