Towards an ontology framework for intelligent smart home management and energy saving

Energetic efficiency has become a mandatory requirement for buildings. Several efforts have been done both to reduce energy consumption and to promote alternative generation sources. In most of the existing proposals these two facets of energy conservation are handled singularly. We believe that energy production and consumption need to be managed in a unique perspective to enable a more efficient energy administration. In this paper, we briefly introduce a novel holistic vision for smart home environments and present an ontology framework conceived to provide the necessary information modelling in its implementation. In particular, we focus on two of the composing ontologies that we are currently developing for describing devices and power generation/consumption, in order to enable intelligent task management for energy consumption optimisation.