eDIANA ontology

URL

https://sites.google.com/site/smartappliancesproject/ontologies/ediana.owl

Description

The eDIANA ontology defines the universe of concepts and their relations in the domain of eDIANA Platform Architecture, related to device awareness. The ontology defines three main classes, namely the Information, Service and Device classes. The Information class contains the different categories of information that will be referenced by the elements defined in the Service and Device classes. It includes Direction_Information, Comfort_Variable_Information (such as Humidity_Information, Luminosity_Information, Noise_Information, and Temperature_Information), and Smart_Actuator_Command_Information (such as Change_Configuration_Command_Information, Delayed_Turn_Off_Command_Information, Delayed_Turn_On_Command_Information, Turn_Off_Command_Information, and Turn_On_Command_Information).

The Service class specifies the different interfaces at a very high level,. They are divided in External_Services and Internal_Services. The concrete definition of these interfaces is recommended as future work in the document used as source of the ontology.

The Device class contains different categories of devices that compose the eDIANA platform to enable device awareness services and plug-and-play services, by characterizing the devices, their properties and their interfaces. Devices include Concentrator, Actuator, Appliance (including Generator, Load, Storage), Sensor (including Video_Camera, Airflow_Sensor, Gas_Sensor, Humidity_Sensor, Light_Sensor, Power_Sensor, Sound_Sensor, Sun_Radiation_Sensor, Temperature_Sensor, Fire_Sensor, Movement_Sensor and Smoke_Sensor), and User Interface.

Observations

• We did not create the eDIANA ontology in the context of the Smart Appliances project. We are reusing the OWL version that was provided to us by the authors of the 'D2.2-A Ontology for Device Awareness' document.