Context-Aware Transfer of Task-Based IoT Service Settings

Abstract

The number of available Internet of Things (IoT) devices is growing rapidly, and users can utilize them via associated services to accomplish their tasks more efficiently. However, setting up IoT services based on the user, and environmental context, and the task requirements is usually a time-consuming job. Moreover, these IoT services operate in distributed computing environments in which spatially-cohesive IoT devices communicate via an ad-hoc network, and their availability is not predictable due to their mobility characteristic. To the best of our knowledge, there have been no researches done on saving and recovering users’ task-based IoT service settings with considering the context and task requirements. In this paper, we propose a framework for describing task-based IoT services and their settings in a semantical manner, and providing semantic task-based IoT services in an effective manner. The framework uses a machine learning technique to store and recover users’ task-based IoT service settings. We evaluated the effectiveness of the framework by conducting a user study.