A Framework and its Associated Process-Oriented Domain Specific Language for Managing Smart Residential Environments

Nowadays, researches on Smart Environments represent interesting challenges in pervasive computing. Indeed, remote services, wireless networks and miniaturized devices are becoming more and more diverse and affordable, as well as essential in our daily activities. Unfortunately, the most of these handled devices and services are rather isolated and cannot easily cooperate between each other. Moreover, there is a clear lack of well accepted standards and platforms to help integrate them into useful processoriented composite applications. As a consequence, services composition and orchestration research is exploring ways to combine available services and smart components to work together for solving complex problems such as energy control, security, health care, etc. The present paper aims to explore the previous challenges in the context of controlling Smart Residential Environments (SRE). The proposed solution consists first in defining a generic ontology of such environments and then in using it within a Domain Specific Language (DSL) for designing and controlling different environment processes.