An Architecture for Home Service Retrieval Based on Function Concept Ontology

This paper constructs function concept ontology for smart home to automate home service retrieval according to the functional properties. Firstly in order to construct function concept ontology, the function concept is divided into five categories by analyzing the lifecycle of information, and then each category is refined according to the ways the devices adopted. Then a scenario of audible alarm of gas detective is given to show the drawback of current retrieval mode. Finally an ontology-based architecture is proposed to present service registry, retrieval and invocation based on the function concept ontology.