Authors:
Benjamin Gateau
1
and
Jarogniew Rykowski
2
Affiliations:
1
Public Research Center Henri Tudor, Luxembourg
;
2
Poznan University of Economics, Poland
Keyword(s):
Internet of Things, Multi-Agent Systems, Comfort Management, Ubiquitous Computing.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Applications and Services
;
Computer Vision, Visualization and Computer Graphics
;
Context
;
Context-Aware Applications
;
Distributed Intelligent Agents
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Human and Computer Interaction
;
Human-Computer Interaction
;
Mobile and Pervasive Computing
;
Paradigm Trends
;
Software Engineering
;
Telecommunications
;
Ubiquitous Computing Systems and Services
Abstract:
In this paper a new approach to complex comfort management is presented, aiming in automatic treatment
of different comfort parameters by means of Internet-of-Things devices and multi-agent system. The paper
presents a new model of e-comfort, based on common treatment of all the parameters as identified across
the Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. Next, a new architecture of e-comfort management is discussed, based on
two layers: low-level layer of IoT devices, representing at-the-place possibilities of the system, and upper
layer of software agents, formulating and negotiating the needs and expectations of human users.