In smart home systems, building facilities and networked appliances communicate and operate with the others to perform the home services. Generally, these services are invisible and contain a series of diverse functions handled by separated devices. In fact, smart home can be regarded as a βsmarterβ version of home automation system by adding a contextaware…
With the trend of making house-hold appliances network-enabled and the widespread use of the broadband connections to homes, Internet services are increasingly finding their way to home applications and gradually changing the traditional lifestyles. As opposed to connecting traditional computing devices such as PCs, laptops, and PDAs, the Internet is increasingly used for home appliances…
Traditional smart home (SH) technology combined with new monitoring technologies designed to prevent falls and detect health status changes is the current direction for SH development. The combination of conventional SH technology with healthcare technology is likely to be an effective approach to preventing nursing home placement for frail older adults. Barriers to adopting or…
Older adults prefer living independently at home, in their familiar environment, over a longer period of time (Vermeulen, 2006). Facilitating aging in place helps increasing older adultsβ quality of life. It enables actively participating in the community and maintaining social networks, increases personal security, and limits the negative effect of relocation, such as confusion, alienation…
Motivation and Goals Establishing a sustainable environment is an important mission for research on the next generation of intelligent houses. The current living environment is full of fixed architectural elements, or reactive elements that merely possess a “perception οΌ reaction” function. These elements are hard to respond to a changing and complex environment by judging and assessing…
Home automation activities are becoming increasingly important nowadays in providing more comfort and security for the home residents. Reports are available in the past concerning the development of devices and units needed for implementing the smart home (two websites, 2009; Jorge Caleira Nunes et al, 2004; Renato Nunes, 2003 and Balasubramanian and Cellatoglu, 2008). Each…
Due to the rapid advances in wireless communication and information technologies it is now possible to embed various levels of smartness in the home. These smart homes are ones that can interact intelligently with their inhibitors to provide comfort and safe living. This interaction may range from simple control of ambient temperature to context-aware and…
The pervasive computing area has recently gained major importance from both industry and academia and is changing the way we interact with our environment [1]. This computing domain emphasizes the use of small, intelligent and communicating daily life objects to interact with the computing infrastructure. These devices tend to blend in their environment. This is…