RESTful Web of Things for Ubiquitous Smart Home Energy Management

Emergence of smart things has matured the Internet of Thing (IoT) notion. Extensive attention drawn towards IoT has inspired the concept of Smart homes. However, actual implementation of smart home architecture is highly challenged by the heterogeneity of smart devices, platform incompatibilities, and energy management demands. Web of Things (WoT) is a common solution platform, which exposes these heterogeneous services in an effective and a transparent manner. Hence, in this paper, we propose a WoT inspired smart home that occupies representational state transfer (REST) architecture for data collection and sharing. The proposed smart home architecture was tested through computer simulation to evaluate its performance efficiency with respect to energy efficiency of domestic appliances, device discovery performance, response time, and failed transmissions.