Cognitive Amplifier for Internet of Things

We present a Cognitive Amplifier framework to augment things part of an IoT, with cognitive capabilities for the purpose of improving life convenience. Specifically, the Cognitive Amplifier consists of knowledge discovery and prediction components. The knowledge discovery component focuses on finding natural activity patterns considering their regularity, variations, and transitions in real life setting. The prediction component takes the discovered knowledge as the base for inferring what, when, and where the next activity will happen. Experimental results on real-life data validate the feasibility and applicability of the proposed approach.