Representation of Integration Profiles Using an Ontology
The Integration and commissioning of AAL systems are time consuming and complicated. The lack of interoperability of available components for Ambient Assisted Living has to be considered as an obstacle for innovative SMEs. In order to ease integration and
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Abstract The Integration and commissioning of AAL systems are time consuming and complicated. The lack of interoperability of available components for Ambient Assisted Living has to be considered as an obstacle for innovative SMEs. In order to ease integration and commissioning of systems knowledge based methods should be taken into account to enable innovative characteristics of AAL systems such as design automation, self-configuration and self-management. Hence, semantic technologies are suitable instruments which offer the capability for mastering the problems of interoperability of heterogeneous and distributed systems. As an important prerequisite for the emergence of knowledge-based assistance functions a standard for unambiguous representation of AAL-relevant knowledge has to be developed. In this paper, the development of an AALontology is proposed as a formal basis for knowledge-based system functions. A prototype of an AAL specific ontology engineering process is presented through the modeling example of a formal representation of a sensor block which is part of an AAL-Integration Profile proposed by the RAALI consortium.
1 Interoperability in the Context of Ambient Assisted Living In order to enable senior citizens to grow old gracefully in independence from other people and institutions, it is mandatory to reconstruct their familiar environment in respect to their specific restrictions and demands. Technical solutions R. Welge (&) B.-H. Busch K. Kabitzsch J. Laurila-Epe S. Heusinger M. Lipprandt M. Eichelberg E. Eichenberg H. Engelien M. Goek G. Moritz A. Hein ENS—Freies Institut fuer Technische Informatik, Steckelberg 4, 21400 Reinstorf, Germany e-mail: [email protected] B.-H. Busch e-mail: [email protected]
R. Wichert and H. Klausing (eds.), Ambient Assisted Living, Advanced Technologies and Societal Change, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-37988-8_13, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014
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and services adopting the domain of AAL take the key position for the success to overcome the effects and implications of the demographic change. Due to their often overwhelming system architectures and their similarity to ambient intelligence solutions in general, the integration, installation and putting into operation of AAL-assistance systems is complex and elaborate. Due to the fact that most of the specific AAL-components are currently still remaining in the development process, standardized elements, parts and multi-sensor/multi-actuator networks from the building automation, telemedicine and ICT are applied for the orchestration of the hardware substructure of human centered assistance systems. Thereby, experts for the system deployment and installers are faced with still open interoperability issues. Manufacturers of AAL-system have either to rely on proprietary solutions or to care about a large number of partial disjoint standards and norms. Nowadays, the obvious lack of interoperability regarding AAL-systems and components is co
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