A Service-Oriented Alarms System for Intelligent Building Management

In the constantly evolving smart building context, an important aspect to address is devices and applications interoperability. The FCINT project provides a service-oriented management framework for smart building facilities through the use of ontologies, intelligent controllers and a Web-based portal. The alarms system presented in this paper is part of the effort to provide a proper framework for enhancing devices and services interoperability in smart buildings environment. Users will benefit of increased comfort, since actions can be taken as soon as an alarm occurs. Alarm conditions and policies can be easily customized and adapted to different scenarios, such as providing support to elderly people or monitoring patients with various medical conditions in their smart home environments. The alarms service provides real time feedback, thus allowing immediate action to be taken.