PESSHIoT: Smart Platform for Monitoring and Controlling Smart Home Devices and Sensors

The Internet of Things (IoT) allows for the development of a wide range of products, useful in everyday life in contexts such as education, health, trade, tourism, agriculture, environment, and home, among others. In the home context, domotics emerged as a set of smart home automation systems controlling nearly everything in a house – e.g. lights, appliances, electrical outlets, cooling systems. To this end, domotic systems collect information through sensors and execute a series of tasks accordingly. Domotic systems have numerous advantages, including safety, comfort, and efficient energy consumption, among others. Nowadays, many applications can control smart home devices, yet in technology monitoring, applications giving comfort and energy saving recommendations based on user behavior patterns have not yet been developed. To address this gap, we propose a technological platform for monitoring and controlling smart home devices and sensors. The platform can provide users automatic recommendations for increased comfort at home and efficient energy consumption. Finally, this platform combines different approaches and technologies such as semantic Web, collaborative filtering, and web/mobile application development.