Towards a Context-Aware Framework for Internet of Things and Smart Everything

New applications and new needs to be dealt with arise every day in nowadays society of the Internet of Things (IoT) and smart everything. Even though there are many applications for these domains, most of them do not facilitate context integration in their data processing. There are applications that present solutions to this problem, however, they are either too domain-specific or too general, and therefore cannot be easily reused in other software products. To fill this gap, we propose a context-aware framework that makes use of an ontology reusable for multiple IoT and smart domains. The framework will also provide an integration mechanism and an event pre-processing system, which will facilitate the work of developers. The latter will make use of the ontology by facilitating the definition of contextual events and their integration into decision-making systems. All this, together with our complex-event processing decision-making system will finally make possible to offer intelligent context-aware services and applications.