CharIoT: an end-user programming environment for the IoT

Abstract

Despite the breadth of related work, enabling end-users of varying technical ability to leverage sensor data to control their Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled installations remains a challenge. This work proposes a unified interface that provides three building blocks to support the end-user configuration of IoT environments: capturing higher-level events in the installation through virtual sensors, construction of automation rules with a visual overview of the current configuration and support for sharing configuration between end-users using a recommendation mechanism.