DomoML-env: an ontology for Human Home Interaction

Household appliances have fast changed in the last decades and achieved an important role in the ordinary home daily activity, e.g. in assisting people during cooking, phone calls, house monitoring, etc. Pervasiveness and interoperability are interesting aspects related to domestic devices. The semantic web is here considered to make an infrastructural support for resource interoperability by providing a domestic environment ontology, called DomoML-env, for human home interactions aiming to connect household appliances each other, to exchange their services and information, and to overcome or extend their individual capabilities. The paper focuses on the development of an extensible ontology in the home automation field, open to the integration of other more specific ontologies.