Over the past seven years, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has consistently ranked indoor air pollution among the top five risks to public health. One of the most dangerous indoor air pollutants is carbon monoxide (CO). CO can be lethal, but perhaps more important, many people suffer ill health from chronic, often undetected exposure to low levels of this gas, resulting in fatigue, hea...

Bradley M. Appelhans, PhD, [email protected] 5 Stephanie L. Fitzpatrick, PhD, [email protected] 6 Hong Li, PhD, [email protected] 7 Vernon Cail, MPH, MPA, [email protected] 8 Department of Preventive Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL 9 10 Molly E. Waring, PhD, [email protected] 11 Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, University of Massach...

Adequate security is a key requirement for home automation environments. Home Automation products are relatively new to the marketplace and many consumers are relatively unaware of the risks associated with home networks and remote management of these devices. Two key technologies involved in home networking and automation are Bluetooth and Jini. These technologies are littered with security ri...

Home attachment is positive emotional bond between home and its dwellers which may result in safety, solace and tranquility for them. To create this kind of relationship some physical and social prerequisites need to exist inside home. This article aims to answer the question "whether house outdoor environment features are also effective in developing home attachment or not?" Aiming to answer t...

The need to have a secure lifestyle at home is in demand more than ever. Today’s home is more than just four walls and a roof. Technology at home is on the rise and the place for smart home solutions is growing. One of the major concerns for smart home systems is the capability of adapting to the user. Personalizing the behavior of the home may provide improved comfort, control, and safety. One...

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...