Development of low cost energy efficient home sensing internet gateway: A pilot study

A cross-domain initiative Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) is utilizing ICT technologies and increasing autonomy of the elderly by building Enhanced Living Environments (ELEs). Affordable in-house devices that can be combined with highly available, infinitely scalable cloud services can deliver novel applications and user experience. Cost reduction and efficiency of the smart-home has become one of the imperatives of the countries around the world. Low cost (of-the-shelf) devices facilitate proliferation of smart services and make them more accessible to a broader audience. In this paper we present the proof-of-concept pilot solution developed to investigate the possibility to replace the expensive home-gateway server with much cheaper and energy efficient home sensing internet gateway based on the Raspberry Pi 2 Model B device.