Knowledge Core: An SCEP Architecture for Smart Installations with Organization-Defined Policies

Abstract

With an increase in smart applications and ubiquitous IoT computing, it has become increasingly necessary to investigate available approaches to processing sensor data. Complex event processing provides a means of associating sensor measurements to categories of observed events, such as entry and occupancy, which are more meaningful to smart application developers. Recent advancements in semantic complex event processing (SCEP) provide an opportunity to evaluate matched events within the context of organization-defined policies defined as semantic ontologies. However, research into the application of SCEP to smart applications is currently scarce. In this paper, we introduce the Knowledge Core SCEP architecture which extends the traditional SCEP architecture to a constellation of smart installations with organizational policies. The application of this architecture can provide smart application developers and maintainers with a novel means of processing the data generated by their smart application within a context of what matters to their organization.