A global approach of habit profiles for smart home control

Smart homes and Ambient Intelligence Environments require embedded technologies able to work and think jointly. Indeed, home technologies are expected to form together an individual supportive system whose cooperation and context awareness capabilities make it more than the sum of the different parts (equipments, functionalities, services, appliances, etc.).
The present article introduce habit profiles as elements to build a common underlying basis for home services, stating the foundations to interpret the shared context and perform global reasoning. Some profile-based ser-vices covering the main domestic application fields are displayed, as well as simulations that check the coop-erative performance of profile-based control.