To improve the traditional smart home system, its electric wiring, networking technology, information transmission and facility control are studied. In this paper, we study the electric wiring, networking technology, information transmission and facility control to improve the traditional smart home system. First, ZigBee is used to replace the traditional electric wiring. Second, a network is b...

There has been a lot of work focussing on activity recognition in smart homes, with the aim of the home being to monitor the activities of the inhabitant and identify deviations from the norm. For a smart home to support its inhabitants, the recognition system needs to accurately learn from the observations acquired through sensors, which are installed in the home. Given a predefined set of the...

Smart Home is one of the main application domains of Pervasive Computing, and it can provide Context-aware Services to homeowners. As context information is obtained from different sources in the Smart Home environment, the context information may be heterogeneous, inaccurate and dynamic. How to effectively model these different types of context information is a main research issue. To address ...

Smart Home technology offers a viable solution to the increasing needs of the elderly, special needs and home based-healthcare populations. The research to date has largely focused on the development of communication technologies, sensor technologies and intelligent user interfaces. We claim that this technological evolution has not been matched with a step of a similar size on the software cou...

Context awareness is the most important research area in ubiquitous computing. In particular, for smart home, context awareness attempts to bring the best services to the home habitants. However, the implementation in the real environment is not easy and takes a long time from building the scratch. Thus, to support the implementation in the real smart home, it is necessary to demonstrate that t...

The deployment of the Ambient Intelligence (AmI) paradigm requires designing and integrating user-centered smart environments to assist people in their daily life activities. This research paper details an integration and validation of multiple heterogeneous sensors with hybrid reasoners that support decision making in order to monitor personal and environmental data at a smart home in a privat...

Abstract In this paper, current technologies which can be used in the wireless home networking area are reviewed and compared. Then a solution of smart home system based on ZigBee technology is put forward and discussed. The hardware design of ZigBee wireless sensor network based on CC2430 chip and embedded home gateway based on S3C2440 is also given in detail. The software workflow of coordina...

A smart grid is envisioned to enable a more economic, environmental friendly, sustainable and reliable supply of energy. But significant security concerns have to be addressed for the smart grid, dangers range from threatened availability of energy, to threats of customer privacy. This work focuses on a specific part of the Smart Grid: the analysis of a smart home environment, the identificatio...

Automation is the use of management systems and information technology to manage equipment, industrial machinery and processes, reducing the necessity for human intervention. Within the scope of industrial enterprise, automation may be a step beyond mechanization. Home automation is use of one or additional computers to manage basic home functions and options automatically and generally remotel...

Home automation commercial technologies have been deployed as smart grids have extensively grown. Home automation raises the fact that home security needs an abundant amount of attention. In fact, with home automation, all connected appliances are in a critical condition since they are connected to the Internet. The term of cyber security can become an optimal explanation of the most concerned ...