Integrating high shares of renewable resources into the electricity system requires a more flexible demand, especially more load-shifting in residential households. In order to achieve that different technologies, especially smart meters with various feedback functions, are tested on the market. So far little is known about the effects of a combination of different smart home technologies, such...

S mart-home technology has evolved beyond basic convenience functionality, such as automatically controlled lights and door openers, to provide tangible bene ts. For instance, water ow sensors and smart meters facilitate energy e ciency. IP-enabled cameras, motion sensors, and connected door locks o er be er control of home security. However, a ackers can manipulate smart devices to cause users...

The Internet of Things is becoming increasingly widespread in home environments. Consumers are transforming their homes into smart homes, with internet-connected sensors, lights, appliances, and locks, controlled by voice or other user-defined automations. Security experts have identified concerns with IoT and smart homes, including privacy risks as well as vulnerable and unreliable devices. Th...

The Internet of Things is becoming increasingly widespread in home environments. Consumers are transforming their homes into smart homes, with internet-connected sensors, lights, appliances, and locks, controlled by voice or other user-defined automations. Security experts have identified concerns with IoT and smart homes, including privacy risks as well as vulnerable and unreliable devices. Th...

Owing to the progress of wired and wireless home networking, sensor networks, networked appliances , mechanical and control engineering and computers themselves, we can realize smart homes nowadays and many smart home projects are proceeding in the world What we have to be careful is not to repeat the same thing as the h ome automation technologies that were booming in 1970’s. That is to say, a...

In this paper, we propose a prototype of a user centered design system for Smart Homes which lets users: (1) configure different interactive tasks, and (2) express activity specifications and preferences during the design process. The main objective of this paper is how to create and to implement VR Smart Home prototype as a platform to increase user contribution in the earliest phases of desig...

This paper provides a review of the recent advancements in technologies for Smart Home Automation and Hierarchical Wireless Multimedia Management systems (such as Hierarchical Mobile IP) and its potential application and integration to Smart Home systems. The principles of Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 are adopted for providing mobility on the design of the architecture for MIP-Based Smart Home. Sma...

In this position paper we describe an on-going effort to provide an in-depth and cross-cultural evaluation of how elderly users perceive robotic systems for domestic cognitive support. Our work is grounded on two implemented smarthome prototypes, namely the RoboCare Smart Home developed in Italy, and the PEIS Home developed in Sweden. The former project has provided a testbed for an aposteriori...

A smart home (sometimes referred to as a smart house or eHome) is one that has highly advanced automatic systems. A smart home appears "intelligent" because its computer systems can monitor many aspects of daily life. Our research, presented in this paper, is based on a universal implementation model for the smart home. The “Home Intelligence” (HI) module of the smart home, offers important add...