Abstract:
The emerging Internet of Things opens endless possibilities to the con-
temporary notion of smart offices, where employees can benefit for automations
so that the workplace can maximize employees productivity and enterprise perfor-
mance. However, usually the integration of new components in smart environments
is not straightforward. In this article we propose the use of a semantic vocabulary
to define this automation, and an architecture consisting of a web task automation
server and mobile task automation components that enable contextual services. One
the one hand, the architecture exhibits flexibility to interconnect internet services
and devices. On the other side, the use of semantic technologies provides semantic
interoperability and expressivity for the automation definition.