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Bridging the Architectural Gap in Smart Homes Between User Control and Digital Automation

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In today’s homes, terminals such as televisions, refrigerators, washing machines, lamps, or heaters are operated separately and locally. Typically, the resident initiates actions on the terminal device manually and controls their runtime. Digitisation of the previously manual and time-consuming activities hold great potential for the ease of living. Nonetheless, so called smart home technologies have a lag of adoption. Several challenges are responsible for this, such as the fear of losing control. Current Internet of Things architectures do not overcome these challenges and are therefore identified as barriers to innovation for mass dissemination. We propose a new architectural paradigm, which will be evaluated in technical as well as social aspects to achieve a commanding coexistence of man and machine. Our approach will be equated to several well-suited publish-subscribe and request-response paradigms of the IoT spectrum to show its comparability.

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Herm, LV., Wanner, J., Janiesch, C. (2020). Bridging the Architectural Gap in Smart Homes Between User Control and Digital Automation. In: Hofmann, S., Müller, O., Rossi, M. (eds) Designing for Digital Transformation. Co-Creating Services with Citizens and Industry. DESRIST 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12388. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64823-7_35

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