Controlling Smart Devices

Smart devices make our lives easier. However, by delegating more and more tasks to smart devices our wellbeing becomes dependent on their correct functioning. This creates a need for monitoring home devices in a similar way as businesses already do. The thesis describes the steps required for building a monitoring system suited for smart home monitoring, from the initial design to the final implementation of the solution. The goal was to create a user friendly monitoring system, designed as much as possible as a proactive monitoring solution, based on the white-box monitoring approach. The solution is designed to work with the openHAB home automation software, which has been lately split and has become an extension to Eclipse SmartHome. The system monitors all devices connected with openHAB and generates context rich alerts whenever a device shows signs of faulty behaviour