Using Online Third Party Geolocation Services to Improve Smart Home User Experience

Abstract

This paper presents one approach to improve smart home user experience, by providing location-based services. Within the cloud of the existing smart home solution, the geolocation micro-service is first implemented. This micro-service communicates with third party online geolocation service to obtain latitude and longitude values from physical address and vice versa. The geolocation micro-service is used by different services to provide location-based experience. For example, weather micro-service uses the geolocation information, to provide weather content, while the traffic service monitors traffic conditions in the vicinity of the household. This information can be used to setup different automation rules in the system.