Smart doorbells allow home owners to receive alerts when a visitor is at the door, see who the guest is, and communicate with the visitor from a smart device. They greatly improve people’s life quality and contribute to the evolution of smart homes. However, the commercial smart doorbells are quite expensive, usually cost more than 190 US dollars, which is a substantial impediment on the pervas...

Smart-home platforms support applications, services, and devices for Ambient Assisted Living (AAL). The developers of those platforms commonly focus on technological requirements only, without having a clear understanding of end-users such as older adults living independently. Moreover, since there are no functional testing methods for AAL platforms, the authors introduce a testing methodology ...

The smart home environment consists of numerous subsystems which are heterogeneous in nature. Smart home environment are configured in such a way that it comfort driven as well as achieving optimized security and task-oriented without human intervention inside the home. The subsystems, due to their diversified nature develop difficulties as the events communicate making the smart home uncomfort...

With the constant improvement of China's economic development level, the Internet of things developed from network technique and information technology has gradually become an emerging technology and widely applied in home furnishing. This paper gives an analysis of the deficiencies in smart home design by the Internet of things and brings forward design of the smart home system based on the In...

Our research approach is to design and develop reliable, efficient, flexible, economical, real-time and realistic wellness sensor networks for smart home systems. The heterogeneous sensor and actuator nodes based on wireless networking technologies are deployed into the home environment. These nodes generate real-time data related to the object usage and movement inside the home, to forecast th...

The system of smart home can provide a kind of easier, ordered and effective life style to human, and must be the development tendency for future inhabitancy mode. Therefore, a smart home system solution is proposed in this paper. Firstly, this paper analyzes the characteristics of ZigBee technology, device types, network topologies and ZigBee protocol specification. Secondly, a design scheme o...

An electroencephalogram (EEG) based brain-computer interface (BCI) was connected with a Virtual Reality system in order to control a smart home application. Therefore special control masks were developed which allowed using the P300 component of the EEG as input signal for the BCI system. Control commands for switching TV channels, for opening and closing doors and windows, for navigation and c...

While people have many ideas about how a smart home should react to particular behaviours from their inhabitant, there seems to have been relatively little attempt to organise this systematically. In this paper, we attempt to rectify this in consideration of context awareness and novelty detection for a smart home that monitors its inhabitant for illness and unexpected behaviour. We do this thr...

In spite of the significant work that has been done to discover and recognize activities in the smart home research, less attention has been paid to predict the future activities that the resident is likely to perform. An activity prediction module can play a major role in design of a smart home. For instance, by taking advantage of an activity prediction module, a smart home can learn context-...

The aim of this article is to bring forth the issue of integrating the services provided by intelligent artifacts in Ambient Intelligence applications. Specifically, we propose a Distributed Constraint Optimization procedure for achieving a functional integration of intelligent artifacts in a smart home. To this end, we employ ADOPT-N, a state-of-the-art algorithm for solving Distributed Constr...