Collaborative data mining for intelligent home appliances

Abstract

The augmentation of physical devices and resources with electronics, software, sensing elements and network connectivity is a “hot topic” as confirmed also by the several research projects and activities on internet-of-things (IoT) and cyber-physical systems (CPS) research streams. It is obvious that intelligent products are taking more responsibility in future collaborative networks. Recent products are becoming more and more intelligent and connected by using the existing network infrastructure, meaning that products are becoming active agents in networks and valuable data sources that are capable to provide data continuously during their operation. This is leading to a massive amount of data that can be used by product manufacturers to be and remain competitive in market sharing. In this scenario, the application of collaborative data mining techniques, supported by machine learning algorithms, is aimed to enable the analysis of the data provided from multiple and above all distributed data sources in order to discover and extract useful knowledge about the behavior of the users along with the usage patterns of their devices and appliances.