Smart home technologies have become, in the last few years, a very active topic of research. However, many scientists working in this field do not possess smart home infrastructures allowing them to conduct satisfactory experiments in a concrete environment with real data. To address this issue, this paper presents a new flexible 3D smart home infrastructure simulator, which is developed in Jav...

Smart Home resident may be an Alzheimer patient needing continuous assistance and care giving. Because of forgetfulness, this person may realize activities of daily living erroneously. In order to assist this person automatically in Smart Home, all his performed actions and activities are observed through the embedded sensors of Smart Home, and applying the data mining techniques his activities...

BACKGROUND The goal of this work is to develop intelligent systems to monitor the wellbeing of individuals in their home environments. OBJECTIVE This paper introduces a machine learning-based method to automatically predict activity quality in smart homes and automatically assess cognitive health based on activity quality. METHODS This paper describes an automated framework to extract set o...

The global trend of increasing longevity has brought an enormous challenge in developing smart technologies to preserve independence and quality of life among the elderly in their own residence. The homes we live in have been transformed into smart environments. Most studies on smart home for the elderly have focused on enabling technologies for aging friendly smart environments such as health ...

Now that smart home appliances are easily plugged into smart home networks, the question of how to simplify security management, especially of access rights, for such appliances arises. The problem is aggravated by the fact that home users cannot be considered as “skilled” administrators, but are instead often technology-unaware users. Establishing trustworthiness when it comes to secure smart ...

The “implementation” and use of smart home technology to lengthen independent living of non-instutionalized elderly have not always been flawless. The purpose of this study is to show that problems with smart home technology can be partially ascribed to differences in perception of the stakeholders involved. The perceptual worlds of caregivers, care receivers, and designers vary due to differen...

In this article we explore two issues that can lead to problems for smart-home systems; socio-technical interactions and cyclic interactions. Both issues threaten to obstruct the uptake of the vision for the smart home. At the heart of these problems is interaction; interaction between systems and interaction between people and systems. In its simplest form a smart home is one in which most ele...

This paper presents a flexible standalone, low cost smart home system, which is based on the Android app communicating with the micro-web server providing more than the switching functionalities. The Arduino Ethernet is used to eliminate the use of a personal computer (PC) keeping the cost of the overall system to a minimum while voice activation is incorporated for switching functionalities. D...

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the possibility of implementing multiprotocol and multifrequency wireless Building Management Systems (BMSs) for smart home environments by using Software Defined Radio (SDR) respectively Cognitive Radio (CR) technologies. BMSs by heaving implemented these technologies or some parts of them, could provide a high level of interoperability between wireless ...