Federated semantic nodes to scale search process in the IoT

mUX: The Journal of Mobile User Experience

Table 1 OWL Properties interlinking Places

Property Name	Domain	Range
Description
contains	Place	Place
Allows a Place to contains other places (e.g. a floor containing some rooms)
isAdjacentTo	Place	Place
Models that two places are separated by some boudaries
inEast	Place	Place
inWest	Place	Place
inNorth	Place	Place
inSouth	Place	Place
Refinement of isAdjacentTo
givesAccess	Premise and not House	Premise and not House
Means that someone can go from one place to the other
hasAnnex	Building or House	Buidling or House
Means that a Building or House can have annexes
hasAddress	Building or Premise	Address
Allows to attach a postal address to some places
isIncludedIn	Place	Place
Means that places can include other places
isPrivate	Place	Boolean
isPublic	Place	Boolean
isSemiPrivate	Place	Boolean
Allows to know if a place can be searched or not

These properties allow different Places, Buildings, Rooms, Corridors, etc., to be interlinked together e.g. “Room A gives access to Room B“.