Although a great of achievements have been obtained in smart home fields in recent years, there are still two fatal drawbacks. First the smart home system cannot really understand itself; second the system is hard to modify if some of the devices have been changed. By given inspiration from the semantic web, we integrate the semantic character into our smart home system and create an ontology b...

ZigBee technology is a kind of wireless technology with short distance, low complexity, low power consumption, low data rate, low cost and wireless network technology. Smart Home system consists of the system server, the family controller (modules), the composition of routers, switches, communication device, controller, wireless transceiver, all kinds of detectors, sensors, actuators and other ...

Smart home environments require tight coupling between different types of sensors, actuators, and computer algorithms. To address the challenges in building a robust and effective smart home environment, it is essential to develop a systematic approach to handling a large number of components and their interactions. We describe a holistic, multi-layered, and service oriented approach to smart h...

Ubiquitous Computing is moving the interaction away from the human-computer paradigm and towards the creation of smart environments that users and things, from the IoT perspective, interact with. User modeling and adaptation is consistently present having the human user as a constant but pervasive interaction introduces the need for context incorporation towards context-aware smart environments...

Context-aware computing is the concept of leveraging information about the end user to improve the quality of the interaction. Emerging context-enriched services will use location, presence, social attributes, and other environmental information to anticipate an end user's immediate needs, offering more-sophisticated, situation-aware and usable functions. Smart homes connect all the devices and...

To minimize the need for human involvement, increased security and improved energy efficiency, a smart home control system can be integrated into current household appliances. The main objective of this project is to develop automation as technology advancing, therefore houses are also getting smarter. proposed prototype in study allows users turn on or off any equipment remotely via Internet T...

The customer domain of the smart grid naturally blends with smart home and smart building systems, but typical proposed approaches are “distributor-centric” rather than “customer-centric,” undermining user acceptance, and are often poorly scalable. To solve this problem, we propose a detailed architecture and an implementation of a “last-meter” smart grid—the portion of the smart grid on custom...

Providing cognitive assistance in smart homes is a field of research that receives a lot of attention lately. In order to give adequate assistance at the opportune moment, we need to recognize the observed behavior when the patient carries out some activities in a smart home. To address this challenging issue, we present a formal activity recognition framework based on possibility theory. We pr...