An approach to modeling Internet of Things based smart built environments

Smart built environments enhanced with technology can improve the lives of individuals, groups, and the broader community. We describe an approach to modeling IOT-based smart built environments that uses a large-scale virtual environment where a building model is aligned with the physical space. This approach takes advantages of affordances and embodied cognition in a large physical space to model user interaction with built spaces. The built space contains `smart objects' with embedded sensors/actuators/controllers (e.g., kitchen appliances). A `smart object' has the corresponding virtual object in the virtual environment. A case study (FutureHAUS) demonstrates the proposed approach.