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Consequently, a personalized cabin environment, which fits the users\u2019 activities and their characteristics, could be a plus value during the cruise vacation. These topics, however, are strictly connected with the diffusion of digital technologies and dynamics, which represent the tools to achieve the goal of a customized on-cruise experience. This paper presents E-Cabin, a novel Internet of Things (IoT) framework architecture that has at its core a reasoning system tuned on data gathered from the environment and from each specific passenger and the activities he\/she performs. The framework leverages on knowledge representation with ontologies and consists of a publisher\u2013subscriber communication framework that allows all of the IoT applications to use the reasoner and the provided ontologies. 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