A Multi-Purpose Scenario-based Simulator for Smart House Environments
  Developing smart house systems has been a great challenge for researchers and
engineers in this area because of the high cost of implementation and
evaluation process of these systems, while being very time consuming. Testing a
designed smart house before actually building it is considered as an obstacle
towards an efficient smart house project. This is because of the variety of
sensors, home appliances and devices available for a real smart environment. In
this paper, we present the design and implementation of a multi-purpose smart
house simulation system for designing and simulating all aspects of a smart
house environment. This simulator provides the ability to design the house plan
and different virtual sensors and appliances in a two dimensional model of the
virtual house environment. This simulator can connect to any external smart
house remote controlling system, providing evaluation capabilities to their
system much easier than before. It also supports detailed adding of new
emerging sensors and devices to help maintain its compatibility with future
simulation needs. Scenarios can also be defined for testing various possible
combinations of device states; so different criteria and variables can be
simply evaluated without the need of experimenting on a real environment.
