Automating rule creation in a Smart Home prototype with Learning Classifier System

Abstract: The name ”smart homes” gives a promise of intelligent behavior. Today automation of the home environment is a manual task, with the creation of rules controlling devices relying on the user. For smart homes this tedious manual task can be automated. The purpose of this thesis is development of a prototype that will help users in smart homes create rules. The rules should be automatically created by the use of a machine learning solution. A learning classifier system algorithm is found as a suitable machine learning solution. A learning classifier system is used to find and create rules from sensor data. In the prototype a Raspberry Pi is used to collect the data. This data is processedby the learning classifier system, generating a set of rules. These rules predict actions for controlling a smart lighting system. The rules are continuously updated with new sensory information from the environment constantly reevaluating the previous found rules. The learning classifier system prototype solves the problem of how rules can be generated automatically by the use of machine learning.