Nowadays, eHealth is one of the most important topics in next generation consumer electronics (CE) and technology (CT). Some disruptive technologies are allowing development these new devices helping their deployment to mass market. The expansion applications field has created concept eHealth-IoT where several low cost interconnected improvement live style.

Consumers’ interactions with smart objects have a relational nature and extensive research has supported the “relationship metaphor” as a fruitful way to understand consumer responses to consumption objects. But, smart objects pose unique challenges for considering the emergence of consumer-object relationships, because their degrees of agency, autonomy and authority lend them their own unique ...

EURegulation 2009/72/EC concerning common rules for internalmarket in electricity calls upon80% of EU electricity consumers to be equippedwith smartmetering systems by 2020, provided that a positive economic assessment of all long-term costs and benefits to themarket and the individual consumer is guaranteed. Understanding the impact that smart metering systems may have on the electricity stake...

In this paper, we introduce a smart appliance for consumer healthcare called “Magic Medicine Cabinet.” It integrates such technologies like smart labels, face recognition, health monitoring devices, flat panel displays, and the Web to provide situated support for a broad range of health needs, including condition monitoring, medication reminders, interactions with one’s own pharmacists and phys...

After exploring industrial and consumer applications of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and reviewing the state-of-theart and development in RFID technology, the paper put forward RFID smart parts. A currently operative smart part based manufacturing system is described which uses RFID as the key technology. The role of them in the emerging Wireless Internet Manufacturing field is highlig...

In liberalized energy markets, matching consumption patterns to energy tariffs is desirable, but practically limited due to privacy concerns, both on the side of the consumer and on the side of the utilities. We propose a protocol through which a customer can obtain a better tariff with the help of their smart meter and a third party, based on privacy-preserving load profile matching. Our secur...

In the data, most consumer defaults on unsecured credit are informal and the lending industry devotes significant resources to debt collection. We develop a new theory of credit card lending that takes these two features into account. The two key elements of our model are moral hazard and costly state verification that relies on the use of information technology. We show that the model gives ri...

Embedded systems greatly outnumber desktop computing systems and are witnessing rapid growth as increasing numbers of industrial, commercial and consumer devices incorporate embedded intelligence. In addition, there are emerging application classes which were hitherto not feasible, but will be enabled by the programmability and connectivity of these pervasive computing elements. The scale and f...

A low power smart vision system based on a large format (currently 1KxlK) active pixel sensor (APS) integrated with a programmable neural processor for fast vision applications is presented. The concept of building a low power smart vision system is demonstrated by a system design, which is composed with an APS sensor, a smart image window handler, and a neural processor. The paper also shows t...