Smart environment technology has matured to the point where it is regularly used in everyday homes as well as research labs. With this maturation of the technology, we can consider using smart homes as a practical mechanism for improving home security. In this paper, we introduce an activity-aware approach to security monitoring and threat detection in smart homes. We describe our approach usin...

In smart home environment research, little attention has been given to monitoring, analyzing, and predicting energy usage, despite the fact that electricity consumption in homes has grown dramatically in the last few decades. We envision that a potential application of this smart environment technology is predicting the energy would be used to support specific daily activities. The purpose of t...

Central to the vision of smart cities is the concept that by fostering a better understanding of human-computer interaction, we can simplify data creation, consumption, and analysis to improve our quality of life. This concept harks back to Mark Weiser’s vision of pervasive computing, which focused on the idea of the smart home.1 Thirty years later, researchers and practitioners are still worki...

The growth in popularity of smart environments has been quite steep in the last decade and so has the demand for smart health assistance systems. A smart home-based prompting system can enhance these technologies to deliver in-home interventions to a user for timely reminders or a brief instruction describing the way a task should be done for successful completion. This technology is in high de...

Smart Homes are the subject of intensive research to explore different ways in which they can be used to provide home-based preventive and assistive technology to patients and other vulnerable sectors of the population like the elderly and frail. Current studies of Smart Homes are focused on the technological side (e.g., sensors and networks) but little effort has been given to what we consider...

One of the greatest challenges in Ambient Assisted Living is to design health smart homes that anticipate the needs of its inhabitant while maintaining their safety and comfort. It is thus essential to ease the interaction with the smart home through systems that naturally react to voice command using microphones rather than tactile interfaces. However, efficient audio analysis in such noisy en...

Smart homes are sensor-rich environments that contain dynamic sets of interacting components. These components often use competing and closed standards and form a message-based architecture. This complicates the development of applications that require information from disparate sources. It becomes difficult to add new components or to allow components from different applications to interact wi...

This paper aims to develop a multisensor data fusion technology-based smart home system by integrating wearable intelligent technology, artificial intelligence, and sensor fusion technology. We have developed the following three systems to create an intelligent smart home environment: (1) a wearable motion sensing device to be placed on residents' wrists and its corresponding 3D gesture recogni...

The development of the smart home presents new challenges to the application of human-computer interaction and user experience (HCI/UX), providing many possibilities for smart home users to suggest additional practical requirements. Based on diverse fundamental theories and various practical implementations, we propose four innovative approaches including efficient general control panels, effec...

The technologies under-pinning smart homes offer promising solutions in the realm of assistive living. At present, there are a number of smart home applications being developed with a raft of technologies that provide fragments of the necessary functionality. Nevertheless, there is currently a major gap between these endeavours and the vision of smart homes in which there are adaptive, personal...