Abstract
Internet of Things (IoT) notion gained a tremendous growth with the evolution of smart things. Benefits of IoT and expert attention has inspired various applications including smart home, smart city, etc. Although smart homes are widely accepted, still face with challenges arise from platform incompatibilities and heterogeneity of devices. Consequently, Web of Things (WoT) came into the play as a universal platform that exposes heterogeneous services and devices via the Web. Therefore, in this article, we propose a WoT inspired energy aware smart home management system that incorporates Representational State Transfer (REST) framework to address platform incompatibilities, while data collecting and sharing. Proposed architecture was simulated and tested for performance improvements in terms of energy efficiency of appliances, device discovery performance, response time, and failure transmissions via the RESTful framework.