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The article focuses on how artificial intelligence (AI) influences the adoption of smart home technologies through consumer relationships. Topics include the impact of AI on service personalization and privacy, the role of social presence and centralization in smart homes, and the effects of these factors on consumer well-being and adoption intentions.

Current research in building performance is giving more attention to strategies to improve HVAC system performance to ensure healthy indoor ventilation and comfort conditioning. An efficient control is required to minimize the energy usage input based on defined occupants' thermal comfort constraint to achieve this goal. Over the years Smart Home Energy Management System (SHEMs) solutions have been used to control the performance of HVAC systems through advanced control strategies whereby ambient conditions and building energy profiles become an integral part of the system. However, recent investigation reveals most of the SHEMs are based on ambient temperature and humidity constraints which cannot fully reflect precise thermal comfort sensation and result in higher discomfort situations and energy usage. To improve the current approaches the study considered more input parameter constraints including occupancy number, reference comfort level, and electricity price modeled using discrete-time models for the control system. Quadratic cost function design for linear optimal control systems is employed to optimize desired temperature setpoint outputs to maximize thermal comfort and lower the energy consumption cost. To test and evaluate the proposed approach's performance, a real-time price electricity scheme was used. The result analysis shows the proposed method achieved comfort conditioning with lower energy input and discomfort situations compared to previous approaches. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite the growing interest in smart homes and robotics in many domains, very few studies have explored how socially assistive robots (SAR) can be integrated into smart homes to control them while socially interacting with people. This paper explores two factors - embodiment and movement - that influence the human-robot interaction into a domestic context. We conducted a within-subjects study with three conditions (disembodied-static, embodied-static, embodied-dynamic) involving the conventional population. Participants (N = 10) interacted into two speech-based tasks with an autonomous Temi robot fully integrated with a smart home (e.g., lights, room temperature, music, oven control) and answered questions about their perception towards the robot, including perceived sociability and social presence. The results indicated that participants perceived the embodied-movable robot as significantly more sociable and socially present than static or disembodied ones. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Smart home speakers have become a commodity item in many households and provide interesting research opportunities in areas like wireless communication and human-computer interaction. Commercial devices do not provide sufficient access for many research tasks. We present a modular smart home hub designed specifically for research purposes. The electronic and mechanical components are designed with reproducibility in mind and can be easily recombined for a project's needs. Additionally, we show applications of the hub in different scenarios. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the aging population, health issues have become a significant challenge for society. The increasing demand for remote medical services stems from changing interests in reducing healthcare costs and the sudden outbreak of COVID-19 globally. As the Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud technology advance rapidly worldwide, this trend has driven the digital transformation of biotechnology and pharmaceutical-related industries. Health care is shifting from a focus on medical institutions to a decentralized approach, emphasizing care facilities and home-based services. However, remote medical care brings about certain challenges, such as limited appointment availability due to network constraints, concerns about internet security, data encryption, privacy issues, and lack of awareness among people in remote areas. With the continuous development and widespread adoption of technology, smart home systems have become an integral part of modern life. In this project, the system emphasizes interaction with the elderly and utilizes the multifunctionality of touch screens. It provides various features through a simple and user-friendly interface, including health monitoring, outpatient services, life assistance, and social interaction functions. In the future, the system can incorporate more interactive features for the elderly, such as mini-games to enhance cognitive abilities, hand-eye coordination, or rehabilitation training. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Smart home with the Internet of Things (IoT) is now playing an important role in connecting most home devices to the Internet in real-time, and this directly improves the quality of life. This processing of data in real-time opens more opportunities for cyber-attacks to target the smart home IoT environment. Most cyber-attackers have taken advantage that most manufacturers are not focused on the security of those devices and other devices have limited processing power to handle security, because of their size or mobility. Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is one of the most serious threats to network security in smart IoT home devices and defines against DDOS attack is one of the most researched topics in smart IoT home devices. As a result, this research study proposes a DDoS algorithm to improve the detection accuracy of attacks in a smart IoT home environment. In the future, a computer network simulator will be used to compare the effectiveness of our proposed algorithm against that of state-of-the-art algorithms. Thereafter, simulation results will be presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aims to examine the influence of various factors in the internet of things (IoT) smart home business, on product continuity. Ease of use and practicality are two important aspects that affect the continuity of IoT smart home products. Therefore, we investigate the features required to ensure sustainability of these products. We select and analyze 55 smart home products from 6 countries, with functions and features closely related to consumers. The results of the logistic regression analysis reveal that two key features, namely the ability to connect the product to those of other companies and the existence of a Wi-Fi ™ function, strongly influence product continuity. This finding indicates the importance of product versatility and availability, and has implications for the design of IoT smart home products. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Smart homes or home automation devices are increasingly adopted as they become more useful and simplify daily tasks in our lives. Due to advances in the Internet of Things (IoT) and its inherent vulnerabilities, many households are therefore becoming vulnerable to cyber-attacks. With a vast array of electronic devices and sensors, smart homes can be controlled from remote locations, making it difficult for an average user to maintain security standards. Since these smart devices are connected to the internet, the vectors for attackers to exploit increase significantly. This also makes it more problematic for forensic investigators to conduct device and user attribution. There is a need to develop a proactive approach to mitigate potential attacks in smart home systems. To achieve this goal, this study developed a digital forensic readiness approach as a mechanism to reinforce integrated security in smart homes. A step-by-step method to obtain evidence for digital forensic investigation is given in line with smart home environments and the ISO/IEC 27043 standard. Using the Digital Forensic Readiness approach for potential digital evidence collection can help an investigator probe cyberattack activity, which allows for proactive forensics. With suitable policies and procedures for the data collection of potential digital evidence, digital forensic investigators can use the mechanism developed from this study to corroborate evidence. Furthermore, this approach can aid security and incident response, which is often overlooked in the context of smart homes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Voice assistants such as Amazon Echo (Alexa) and Google Home use microphone arrays to estimate the angle of arrival (AoA) of the human voice. This paper focuses on adding user localization as a new capability to voice assistants. For any voice command, we desire Alexa to be able to localize the user inside the home. The core challenge is two-fold: (1) accurately estimating the AoAs of multipath echoes without the knowledge of the source signal, and (2) tracing back these AoAs to reverse triangulate the user's location. We develop VoLoc, a system that proposes an iterative align-andcancel algorithm for improved multipath AoA estimation, followed by an error-minimization technique to estimate the geometry of a nearby wall reflection. The AoAs and geometric parameters of the nearby wall are then fused to reveal the user's location. Under modest assumptions, we report localization accuracy of 0.44 m across different rooms, clutter, and user/microphone locations. VoLoc runs in near real-time but needs to hear around 15 voice commands before becoming operational. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The concept of a smart home has developed since the 90s. Where the initial goal of the emergence of the concept of a smart home is to create home automation that can increase the comfort of its residents. Smart home technology enables communication between household appliances and users and improves automation, monitoring and remote-control capabilities. Various studies have been conducted to develop smart home technology. The main purpose of developing a smart home is to meet human needs, namely, to increase user comfort and make everyday life easier. In its development, there are several aspects in a smart home that must be met, namely Security and Safety, Energy Management, and Comfort Control. In various countries have started implementing smart home simulators as learning media, various studies also show that the use of simulators can help in understanding a technology . But until now, in Indonesia, there is still no simulator/trainer who can facilitate learning about smart home technology. Therefore it is necessary to develop intelligent home prototypes that are integrated into one product to facilitate this learning. In this case, context-aware technology is a solution that can be used in the development of a smart green building. Technology context-aware is a term for a smart home that has the intelligence to automate home devices based on the context of the occupants. This paper aims to be a reference in developing smart home prototypes that fulfil the smart home aspects so that they can facilitate learning about smart home technology. This article was prepared by applying the method of critical analysis of literature published from 1992 to 2019 in journals and proceedings in Indonesian and English. As a follow up to future research, this article proposes the development of context-aware smart home simulator to facilitate learning about smart home technology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The distribution of smart home technology (SHT) in private households grows steadily and enables disruptive business models. Besides the obvious advantage of more comfortability through the usage of SHT, the probability of residence-related risks such as fire, water leakage or burglary might decrease. In turn, insurance companies benefit from less insurance risks and more accurate actuarial models. Insurance companies already offer smart home devices combined with insurance products and assistance services, so called smart home-based insurances (SHBI). The research work at hand provides a theoretical model that partially explains the acceptance of SHBI. Its research contribution is threefold. First, an explanatory model for the acceptance of SHBI is presented. Second, the results of a survey with 127 participants provide the data for the hypotheses evaluation. Third, the analysis results foster discussions about ongoing research in the field of SHBI acceptance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite energy efficiency measures the global demand for energy has risen in 2017 as a result of global economic growth and changes in consumer behaviour. To reduce the energy consumption and CO2 emissions, behavioural interventions have to be considered beyond technology advances. We address this by studying how the change of digital choice architectures with nudges can be used to influence the energy-saving behaviour of consumers in a smart home app. With a full factorial experiment, we test the efficacy of two nudges --'self-commitment' and 'social norm'. With the herein reported pre-study, we evaluate the research design and identify improvements for the full study. This research-in-progress paper contributes by concretising the usage of digital nudges in the field of Green IS and behaviour change in the realm of energy-saving. Hence, it can serve as a starting point for discussions on its suitability and further studies focusing on different digital interventions that help to decrease energy consumption. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Technologies that support people's communication with each other have changed structurally over time and human-machine interaction has emerged. One of the technologies that support human-machine interaction is the Internet of objects. With the Internet of objects, it is ensured that not only people communicate with themselves, but also with computers and other electronic devices. One of the applications of the Internet of Things is smart home systems. Smart home systems lighting, security, ventilation, temperature, etc. It allows users to control and track the systems more easily. Smart home users want to establish the communication they manage to their mother tongue by using the same devices that make up the smart home system. User rating communicating with the devices that make up the smart home system, allowing the machine and electronic devices to operate the command and control mechanism more quickly. For this reason, the requirements for a smart home system to work with voice commands and the advantages of speech recognition technologies are investigated. Cloud-based solutions were concluded that in more advantageous for Speech recognition technology. At the end of the study, a Turkish automatic speech recognition system was developed and presented via the cloud platform. A smart home system was also prepared as a model. Speech recognition requests from the smart home system were resolved on the cloud platform and transferred back to the smart home system. Thus, the processing power required for speech recognition was transferred to the cloud. The devices that make up the smart home system are only given the task of executing commands. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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To apply ZigBee technique in smart home circuit design, in the hardware design link of ZigBee node, TI Company's ZigBee wireless communication chip CC2530 was used to complete the design of ZigBee RF module circuit and peripheral circuit. In addition, the function demand and the overall scheme of the intelligent system based on smart home furnishing were proposed. Finally, the smart home system was built by combining ZigBee network and intelligent gateway. The function realization, reliability and power consumption of ZigBee network were tested. The results showed that ZigBee technology was applied to smart home system, making it have some advantages in terms of flexibility, scalability, power consumption and indoor aesthetics. To sum up, the system has high application value. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recent developments in smart devices, Cloud Computing and Internet of Things (IoT) are introducing network of intelligent devices. These intelligent devices can be used to develop smart home network. The home appliance in a smart home forms an ad-hoc network. A smart home network architecture can be exploited by compromising the devices it is made up of. Various malicious activities can be performed through such exploitation. This paper presents a security approach to combat this. By using a collaborative and redundant security approach, the ad-hoc network of a smart home would be able to prevent malicious exploitation. The security approach discussed in this paper is a conceptual representation on the proposed security model for smart home networks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Technology evolution introduced the IoT paradigm, resulting in the Smart Home Environment for home services. Most Smart Home services are currently widely available globally. Services such as smart metering has the highest implementation rate around the world and services for old population management of their daily activities and health at home is identified as a potential for South Africa (SA). A total of 1936 published articles are retrieved from Science Direct and Taylor Francis databases. The inclusion criteria contained "smart home services, smart home products and smart home protocols ". After the exclusion protocols, a total of 74 articles met all the criterions and are used for data analysis and results investigating the feasibility of Smart home services in SA together with local network capability. The smart home requirements include home automation, home monitoring, home security and life convenience are assessed and are a determining factor to deploy the service. Network readiness to offer smart home services in SA is accessed. This paper is able to conclude, on the international standard protocols, products availability and services for deploying a smart home environment. Aspects such as home automation, home monitoring, home security and life convenience are a determining factor for the smart home. The feasibility of Smart Home service for the old population category is reported as a use case scenario to evaluate readiness in SA. This considers the architecture design readiness, smart home requirements and Smart Home products availability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Worldwide, more and more attention is paid to issues related to a smart home. If in 2000 Scopus registered 25 publications with about "smart house", in 2016 their number increased up to 1600. The top three countries with interest in smart home technologies include the United States, China and India. Corporations begin to offer their package solutions for automation of the intellectual home, dozens of start-ups around the creation of technology are established. Where is such interest from? What can offer intelligent home technologies? What can an end user receive? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper reports about an architectural research in space composition of smart home analysis. This is the objective that tries to deduct the characteristics of physical space, logical space, services, and devices in smart homes by analyzing cases relating to digital and smart homes. Therefore, the study interpreted the concept of a dwelling space and characteristics physical and logical spaces in smart homes. In addition, through the analysis of the future housing models created by experience centers and smart home applications, the study draws characteristics of each case about relationships between physical space and networks. Also, we try to deduct the characteristics of each element's connectivity and space composition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article shows the possibility to integrait the assistive technologies in the construction of smart homes. The miniaturization of equipment in various industries, opened a new era of applications in various fields. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Polymer Optical Fibre for home networking is in discussion since many years. Although POF shows many installation advantages, its market introduction and market success seems to be slow and difficult. The presentation will give a short overview about the experienced challenges of IP-based integration of services in home and building networks. Today's services are conventional Internet based Audio-Video services, IP-TV, SAT-IP, home internal personal audio and video services, smart home- and security services etc... After a very short view to the history of POF home networking the presentation will give an overview about the commercial status of POF home and in-building networks. Some commercial projects will be presented to show how POF is defining the future connectivity concept for a real future proofed network installation in buildings and homes. An eco-technological comparison of home network will show that POF is the most efficient way to decrease the basic investment for a home network infrastructure and to multiply the added values of a property. This commercial benefit is valid for both, low cost social housings as well as for high end homes and small or medium office buildings. Compared to No New Wire technologies the optical POF network also shows excellence in energy efficiency and sustainability and environmental effects. The presentation will also cover market experience and the impact of the value chain and some experience with various marketing strategies in the commercialization of POF technology for homes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper presents a realization of a home automation network with two wireless gateways based on open source hardware. Many of the home automation networks consist of a PC based machine (working as a gateway), a wireless network of sensors, smart systems for metering of water, electricity and gas consumption, actuators for heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) and wireless alarm systems. The advantages of the proposed approach are the low cost, additional functionality and scalability together with better sustainability toward power supply disturbances. The described home automation network is based on microcontroller Olinuxino A13 with installed Android 4.0 operating system, used as Internet gateway, and microcontroller Olimexino 328 used as wireless sensor gateway. The communication inside the network is based on CNDEP protocol. A new adapted version of the communication protocol CNDEP, initially designed for data exchange in distributed embedded systems, is described. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Notary services are intimate in the business world. The notary's office is the point of contact between the notary and the client, indicating the notary's performance and trust with the customer. A notary might decorate or style their office to project an impression of dependability and confidence. This study's approach begins with the distribution of a questionnaire to twenty respondents. Then, using the data gathered, proceed to evaluate it in order to redesign the entire office. This research will explore the design elements necessary to promote client trust and the notary's office's concept, as well as its performance. The design incorporates smart home technologies intending to increase security in the office, which houses all of the documents. The materials are chosen depending on the atmosphere, warmth, and functionality required to accomplish the desired design. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, a real-time gesture recognition approach is proposed for smart energy saving home. In order to control electric appliances and save more energy in a smart home, a video camera based gesture recognition algorithm was proposed to detect the movement and behavior of the inhabitants. The context-aware algorithm will analysis and understand the detected movement and gesture to let the service management algorithm to control which electric appliance to which level if there is. Experimental results show that our proposed real-time gesture recognition is efficient and robust, and is quite useful for smart home with about 20% energy saved for some cases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Aging-in-Place solutions are becoming increasingly prevalent in our society. New age big data solutions can harness upon the enormous amount of data generated from sensors in smart homes to provide enabling services. Any collection, storage, processing and sharing of such data must be not only be secure but also ensure that privacy of individuals are preserved. It is necessary to share data about individuals among different stakeholders in the care industry. People responsible for providing direct care should be able to identify individuals to whom right care needs to be provided, but their privacy must be protected from others. In this paper, we introduce a novel anonymization solution based upon the distributed map-reduce paradigm for preserving privacy of the shared data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article describes implementation of comfortable voice-control of building service-systems in a Smart Home Care in a real environment with additive noise. It describes the current condition of research on the voice-operated communication in the Smart Home and the design of a comfortable remote control of building service-systems by the xComfort wireless systems in an intelligent building. An LMS adaptive filter is used for elimination of undesired disturbances in the real environment of an intelligent house in voice communication with a wireless system for removal of additional disturbance from the voice signal. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This paper proposes a priority-based contention period allocation scheme for devices using a directional antenna in smart home. The use of directional antenna in contention period causes many collisions due to deafness problem. To mitigate this obstacle with small changes of the current IEEE 802.11ad standard, we introduce the scheme limiting the access to contention period according to traffic type. Numerical results show the proposed scheme outperforms more than twice compared to that of the IEEE 802.11ad. Various beamwidths and radiation efficiencies are considered. The results show that the narrower beamwidth deliver more throughputs. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The ability to recognize human activities from sensed information is very important for ubiquitous computing applications using smart identification technologies. This paper addresses a new discriminative supervised method combining the classical Principal Components Analysis with the correlation criterion for performing activity recognition in a smart home. We conduct several experiments, demonstrate the achievement of our method and show its promising results using real world dataset. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The control of patients and persons with disabilities has always been a major concern in hospitals as in homes. Research works in this field aim to control and surround patients with comfort, safety in their homes while respecting their privacy. In this paper, we propose a monitoring system based on Kinect sensors to control and monitor elderly people into a smart house. The system recognizes gestures and communicates them through a network. We test some hand gestures and how it can be recognized with this sensor. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

It is expected that demand response programs will be designed to decrease electricity consumption or shift it from on-peak to off-peak periods depending on consumers' preferences and lifestyles. This paper demonstrates a fuzzy TOPSIS decision-making approach to quantify and evaluate consumers' preferences at the micro-level when using electrical devices according to a real-time price scheme of demand response in order to best manage the use of appliances. This enables and supports householders to maximize their participation in demand response programs. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Smart home environments have evolved to the point where everyday objects and devices at home can be networked to give the inhabitants new means to control them. Advances in digital electronics have enable the development of small in size and communicate in short distances sensor nodes. They are low-cost, low-power and multifunctional. The sensor nodes consist of sensing, data processing, and communication components, leverage the idea of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) based on collaborative effort of a large number of nodes. There are a large number of reseaches dealing with WSN applications, but it is still possible to explored in WSN development and maintenance. This paper examines the possibility of integration WSN and the service robots into a smart home application. The service robots can be considered to be mobile nodes that provide additional sensorial information, improve/repair the connectivity and collect information from wireless sensor nodes. On the other hand, the WSN can be considered as an extension of the sensorial capabilities of the robots and it can provide a smart environment for the service robots. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In an idealized vision of a fully integrated smart home, all the operations of a house can be efficiently controlled by a unified smart ubiquitous application. However, we are far from realizing this scenario. A main barrier is the proliferation of incompatible standards and protocols used by various device manufacturers, which makes the smooth integration of appliances from different vendors a very complex process. Having a heterogeneous ecosystem of devices implies that even the development of simple applications requires advanced programming skills and a considerable amount of time. Lately, the Internet is starting to penetrate in embedded computing, with IPv6 expected to merge the physical and the digital world. The potential of the Internet of Things (IoT) is widely discussed, and slowly being realized in pilot studies and beyond. It was a natural extension that the Web of Things (WoT) is proposed for interconnecting the expanding ecosystem of Internet-enabled embedded devices, by reusing well-accepted and understood Web principles. Thus, in this paper we motivate the WoT, present an architecture for the application of WoT in smart homes and demonstrate through case studies. that energy-aware smart homes have the potential to provide flexible solutions to challenges such as energy awareness, energy conservation and the integration of future smart homes to the smart grid of electricity. By combining sensor devices with residential smart power outlets, the foundational pillars are built towards truly Web-based energyaware smart homes. Issues such as interoperability of heterogeneous home devices by employing Web techniques, home automation by means of energy-saving rules, energy awareness by means of real-time feedback and local/social comparisons, and the integration of smart homes to the smart grid of electricity are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Energy conservation concerns call for end-users to regulate their electrical consumption and help achieve a balance between the available energy supply and demand. Therefore there is a need for rigorous research into smart home energy management systems that could assist the end-user in achieving this goal. This paper addresses the issue of electrical energy conservation in the home through the adoption of smart technologies (one instantiation of smart technologies). Smart objects are everyday artefacts augmented with sensing, processing and networking capabilities that enable them not only to communicate with people and other smart objects, but also discover where they are and what objects are in the vicinity. The smart home, on the other hand, is an automated home equipped with smart objects and a home network that is able to transport information between the objects and the Internet. This research focusses on the design and implementation of a smart home energy management system that integrates smart technologies such as the smart phone, cloud, wireless, web server and motes. The research analyses literature on existing smart home energy systems and technologies and draws lessons from the analysis on how the proposed architecture should be structured. When completed this system will allow the end-user to switch single or group of appliances by means of an Android-based smart phone, be they within their home or at a remote location. In emergencies, an authorised authority such as the municipality could potentially control electrical appliances in a whole neighbourhood. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This paper studies a smart home energy management system (SHEMS) based on time-of-use pricing (TOU). Different kinds of appliances and multiple energy sources are coordinated for economic benefits considering users' experience. Models are improved and the value of stored energy is considered. Simulation results indicates that more than 31% payments saving can be obtained, including non-price profits and price profits. Furthermore, the operational characteristic of appliances is analyzed, and the benefits of SHEMS in energy saving and emission reduction is evaluated. This paper also studies the effects to grid and the impacts of price difference between peak and off-peak. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The convergence of smart energy system, telemedicine system and smart home/building solution will be the future development focus of next generation building and home automation system. This paper discusses the impact of the convergence on WiMAX development in terms of QoS management and network design. A performance evaluation has been also conduct to visualize the impact and promising result has been found. This confirms that the current WiMAX standard service class definitions and QoS management framework can fulfill the future development of WiMAX convergent automation network after slight modification. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In this paper, the design and development of an effective secured framework for transmission of heterogeneous wireless sensor network data related to Internet of Things is presented. The description about the integrated multimedia applications network design and the secured mechanisms for reliable data transmission of smart sensors data is illustrated. Mechanisms for multimedia aware traffic analysis and data security in the integrated framework are discussed with the help of simulation of multimedia networks. The experiment results of the proposed security strategy for wireless sensor scalar data and performance analysis of the multimedia wireless sensing traffic are demonstrated using a sim ulator. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In this paper we introduce an approach for modeling the typical behavior of inhabitants in smart homes. The presented modeling process is data-driven and based on unsupervised learning methods. The models consist of association rules that are automatically generated from collected sensor telegrams by data mining. The intended application for such models is the detection of alterations in the mid- or long-term behavior indicating possible changes in health conditions of users of Ambient Assisted Living systems. We successfully applied the modeling approach to real world sensor data recorded in permanently inhabited flats. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Non-intrusive activity monitoring of occupants in a home environment plays an important role in developing the next generation of smart environments and remote health monitoring systems. One important challenge in this research area is lack of a comprehensive dataset. In this paper, we introduce a new dataset related to a smart home environment, which can be used for human activity recognition. In addition, we benchmark our proposed human action recognition algorithm and some other state-of-the-art methods using our dataset. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This paper describes the design of the Forensics Edge Management System (FEMS), a system that autonomously provides security and forensic services within the home Internet of Things (IoT) or smart home context. Within smart homes, users are increasingly being allowed the flexibility to manage and maintain all the solutions that entail. This is evident from the growing number of commercial smart home IoT solutions which are being designed to be manageable by end users. This IoT requirement for user-manageable solutions (without direct or indirect input from vendors beyond the provision of robust systems and solutions) presents a challenge to the traditional concept of Digital Forensics (DF) which is currently an expert-led domain. The FEMS design aims to meet these requirements for autonomy and independence, it is a system that can be integrated into a home-IoT network to conduct preliminary forensic investigations and to provide basic security services. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A smart home has highly advanced automatic systems for lighting, temperature control, multi-media and many other functions. In the field of intelligent service agents in smart home, the service agent should collect the information using sensors at home such as cameras, temperature sensors and light sensors, and generate agent behaviors appropriate to the user's request. This paper presents a smart home system with the intelligent agent using modular behavior networks and STRIPS planning system. Behavior selection networks, one of the well-known behavior based methods suitable for goal oriented tasks, are designed in two types of modules: The networks with specific goal for the user's request, and the networks with common goal to achieve a sub-goal in the specific networks. This modular approach can facilitate reuse and reduce the computation of activation levels without changing the structure. In order to solve complex problems in situations that require sequential inference, we propose a hybrid system, a goal-oriented STRIPS planning system in behavior selection networks, to achieve global goals efficiently in a smart home. The proposed method is applied to the smart home implemented using Unity3D and verified the usefulness by various scenarios. Experimental results confirm the reduction in computation of activity on action nodes. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In this paper, aiming to achieve minimal energy consumption in context-aware device control in a smart-home, we propose a tool called PathSim which derives a minimal cost sequence of device operations for moving between two arbitrary contexts. PathSim properly divides the domain of each constituent smart-space context variable into a finite number of ranges, so that a finite discrete context space (finite number of contexts) is obtained. PathSim simulates the context move (range movement of a context variable) by every available event (device operation) at current context, and derives a minimal cost path (event sequence) using the proposed cost functions for events and derived contexts, from the current context into the intended one. To find a minimal cost path, PathSim adopts A* algorithm. PathSim prototype that we implemented can simulate the context moves for the events such as device attributes, temperature, humidity and user location, taking into account the size and structure of the smart-space, performance and power consumption of each device, and so on. Through a case study supposing a typical requirements specification in a smart-home, we confirmed that PathSim's device operations consume about 72% less energy than the conventional method based on intuitive device operations. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This work discusses a integrating framework on health care, home safety, convenience and entertainment for elderly living. Since the increasing number of elderly people will live alone, yet requires more smart and automation home services, the proposed framework attempts to develop a smart living helper to improve their later life. Two systems are proposed in the Ubiquitous Healthcare System (UHS) framework including, the Web-based User Remote Management Service (WURMS) and the Multimodal Interactive Computation Services (MICS). The proposed systems are coordinating couple existing audio-visual and communication techniques, including the speech/sound recognition, the speaker identification, the face identification, the sound source estimation, the text to speech (TTS) and the event recognition. For elders' friendly interfaces, the proposed services include, 1)Home care services, 2)Emergency assistance, 3)Family interaction, 4)Remote medical services, 5)Security monitoring, and 6)Information services, to improve the elders' life in more convenience. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]