An Ontology Designed for Supporting an AAL Experience in the Framework of the FOOD Project

This work focuses on the design and the implementation of an ontology devised to extract knowledge from an Ambient Assisted Living environment, equipped with an Home Automation System. In particular, the design of the ontology is been carried out taking as reference the experience of the FOOD project [1], funded in the framework of the European AAL Joint Programme [2]. In the pilot installations of the FOOD project, a set of sensors was installed in the kitchen of the users in order to monitor the behavior of the persons, aiming to recording their feeding habits. The main part of the performed activity is the design of the ontology itself and, in particular: the identification of most important conceptual classes, the way to describe the concept of time within the ontology, and the development of a relational database that enables the interfacing between the ontology and the actual data provided by the sensors and collected by the Home Automation System.