The smart home concept brings innovation and convenience to our every day's life style. Without context awareness, smart home applications can neither offer adaptive services based on users’ dynamic situations nor provide preferential treatments according to users’ various preferences. Such a design paradigm forces human to live in the world of machines rather than a human-centric world. The us...

The smartphone revolution together with cost-efficient wireless access technologies has lately changed the landscape for smart home environments to a large extent. Moreover, large flat screens, new capturing devices, and large digital media libraries have also changed the way smart home environments are used. We present and evaluate an architecture for multimedia sharing in such environments. E...

The majority of smart home research has focused on novel technical artifacts, but has overlooked the issues surrounding social relationships in the home. We argue in favor of research that is sensitive to and functions within the social constraints of dual income family homes. This paper describes our grounded contextual fieldwork with real families in their homes, and identifies socially-aware...

Automation and security is a one of the important issue in a modern domestic environment. This system focus on developmental and research issues of Wireless Sensor Network based Smart Home. Wireless Sensor Network based smart home monitoring system provides a secure and safe living environment. A Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is a network which is constructing by using small autonomous nodes (s...

Abstract—Smart home is one of the main applications of internet of things, and it will realize the intellectualization of household. Smart socket is part of the smart home, which can be controlled remotely by power supplied, monitor utilization condition, communication network and other functions. This article mainly introduces the intelligent electrical outlet of each hardware modules; softwar...

The goal of our research is to develop a general framework for representing and reasoning about temporal relations between events in smart home datasets, and to determine the benefits of this reasoning for event prediction. In earlier work, we performed prediction based solely on the sequence of observed activities. In this work, we supplement evidence for a particular action using the temporal...

Recent advances in ubiquitous computing have evoked the prospect of real-time monitoring of people’s health in context-aware homes. Home is the most private place for people and health information is of highly intimate nature. Therefore, users-at-home must have means to benefit from home healthcare and preserve privacy as well. However, most smart home healthcare systems currently lack support ...

In Ubiquitous environment, system makes their own decision without or with minimized user interaction to provide required services to users. To fulfill this requirement the system needs to collect the proper information of surroundings and define how to react to the changes based on found information autonomously. To achieve this process, the system should equipped with three basic components w...

The purpose of this study is to apply digital city concept for the development of a pictogram system for natural disaster reduction. Long lasting and tangible achievement of IDNDR is needed which may be used in all over the world for many coming generations. As Neurath said “Words divide, pictures unite”, pictograms could be a powerful communication tool as well as an educational tool to improv...