Analytics for the internet of things

ABSTRACT

This paper presents ongoing work on an approach to remotely observe the usage of connected products, analyze collected data and dynamically refine the observation mechanisms for better data. This allows for iteratively working towards the most elaborate, meaningful, and relevant representation of usage behavior in the form of structured and semantically annotated data traces. We show an implementation of the approach in the D'PUIS framework.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.2 User Interfaces (D.2.2, H.1.2, I.3.6)
          Subjects: Evaluation/methodology

General Terms:
Experimentation

Keywords:
evaluation, internet of things, remote observation, user experience