Smart home applications are currently implemented by vendor-specific systems managing mainly a few number of homogeneous sensors and actuators. However, the sharp increase of the number of intelligent devices in a house and the foreseen explosion of the smart home application market will change completely this vendor centric scenario towards open, expandable systems made up of a large number of...

Smart homes are becoming more popular, as every day a new home appliance can be digitally controlled. Smart Digital Homes are using a server to make interaction with all the possible devices in one place, on a computer or webpage. In this paper we designed and implemented a mobile application using Windows Mobile platform that can connect to the controlling server of a Smart Home and grants the...

 Monitoring behavior of children in the home is the extremely important to avoid the possible injuries. Therefore, an automated monitoring system for monitoring behavior of children by researchers has been considered. The first step for designing and executing an automated monitoring system on children's behavior in closed spaces is possible with recognize their activity by the sensors in the e...

 Monitoring behavior of children in the home is the extremely important to avoid the possible injuries. Therefore, an automated monitoring system for monitoring behavior of children by researchers has been considered. The first step for designing and executing an automated monitoring system on children's behavior in closed spaces is possible with recognize their activity by the sensors in the e...

Energy management in smart home environment is nowadays a crucial aspect on which technologies have been focusing on in order to save costs and minimize energy waste. This goal can be reached by means of an energy resource scheduling strategy provided by a suitable optimization technique. To improve the efficacy of the home appliance for energy management lot of study have been made. For smart ...

Nowadays, various kinds of smart home appliances are widely deployed in our daily life. These embedded, networked, and programmable appliances could be accessed through various methods, but may not be integrated together due to the different kinds of home network protocols on which these appliances are deployed. On the other hand, with the penetration of mobile devices, people could leverage th...

Although electronic devices permeate the home and offer unsurpassed power and features, many impediments still exist to realizing the concept of the smart-home: configuration complexity, minimal device interoperability, difficulty of use, lack of personalization, and no integration with sensors for awareness and adaptation. We define four tenets of smart-home environment: Zero-configuration, Un...

Although electronic devices permeate the home and offer unsurpassed power and features, many impediments still exist to realizing the concept of the smart-home: configuration complexity, minimal device interoperability, difficulty of use, lack of personalization, and no integration with sensors for awareness and adaptation. We define four tenets of smart-home environment: Zero-configuration, Un...

The growing market for smart home IoT devices promises new conveniences for consumers while presenting novel challenges for preserving privacy within the home. Specifically, Internet service providers or neighborhood WiFi eavesdroppers can measure Internet traffic rates from smart home devices and infer consumers’ private in-home behaviors. Here we propose four strategies that device manufactur...

Smart home technologies offer potential benefits for assisting clinicians by automating health monitoring and wellbeing assessment. In this paper, we examine the actual benefits of smart home-based analysis by monitoring daily behaviour in the home and predicting standard clinical assessment scores of the residents. To accomplish this goal, we propose a Clinical Assessment using Activity Behavi...