An optimized scheduling strategy for smart home users under the limitation of daily electric charge

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaohui Sun ◽  
Siyu Ji ◽  
Chenglin Wen
Keyword(s):  
Electric Charge ◽  
Smart Home ◽  
Scheduling Strategy ◽  
Home Users

scholarly journals Assessing Users’ Privacy and Security Concerns of Smart Home Technologies

i-com ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 197-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Verena Zimmermann ◽  
Paul Gerber ◽  
Karola Marky ◽  
Leon Böck ◽  
Florian Kirchbuchner
Keyword(s):  
Smart Home ◽  
Elderly Care ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Privacy And Security ◽  
Privacy Concerns ◽  
Private Lives ◽  
Societal Level ◽  
Home Users

AbstractSmart Home technologies have the potential to increase the quality of life, home security and facilitate elderly care. Therefore, they require access to a plethora of data about the users’ homes and private lives. Resulting security and privacy concerns form a relevant barrier to adopting this promising technology. Aiming to support end users’ informed decision-making through addressing the concerns we first conducted semi-structured interviews with 42 potential and little-experienced Smart Home users. Their diverse concerns were clustered into four themes that center around attacks on Smart Home data and devices, the perceived loss of control, the trade-off between functionality and security, and user-centric concerns as compared to concerns on a societal level. Second, we discuss measures to address the four themes from an interdisciplinary perspective. The paper concludes with recommendations for addressing user concerns and for supporting developers in designing user-centered Smart Home technologies.

Suitable for Smart Home users' situations Explore the design of a multi-modal interface

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (0) ◽  
pp. 429-441
Author(s):  
Juyeon Park ◽  
Myeong-Heum Yeoun
Keyword(s):  
Smart Home ◽  
Home Users

scholarly journals Smart Home Users Perception on Sustainable Urban Living and Legal Challenges in Malaysia

2018 ◽  
pp. 807-814
Author(s):  
Asmah Laili Yeon ◽  
Noor Ashikin Basarudin ◽  
Zuryati Mohamed Yusoff ◽  
Nazli Mahathir ◽  
Nuarrual Hilal Md Dahlan
Keyword(s):  
Smart Home ◽  
Insurance Coverage ◽  
Smart Homes ◽  
Kuala Lumpur ◽  
Urban Living ◽  
Legal Challenges ◽  
Regulatory Bodies ◽  
Specific Standard ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Home Users

Smart homes can improve life by providing comfort, leisure, safety, and healthcare to residents. Nevertheless, the smart home concept depends on the integration on human and non-human intelligence, which raises a host of questions concerning its implication on legal liability. The legal issues in relation to definition of smart home, data protection, privacy, liability and insurance coverage. The aims of this paper is to discuss the perception of smart home users on the sustainable urban living and its challenges. This is a qualitative study and involves a small survey among smart home users in Kuala Lumpur. The findings show that there is no legal specific definition of smart home, there is no specific standard or specification issued by any regulatory bodies to regulate the network or appliances being used in smart homes. Majority of residents agreed that there are threats of privacy to smart home users. And privacy is not guaranteed and majority of residents agreed that their smart home and devices is not covered by insurance policy. Hence, a policy and specific law or at least provisions regarding smart home must be drafted or inserted in the present statute initiated by the Ministry of Urban Wellbeing, Housing, and Local Government of Malaysia.

scholarly journals Analysis of User Preferences for Smart Home Products in Minshuku

2021 ◽  
Vol 275 ◽  
pp. 03043
Author(s):  
Diyan Xian ◽  
Shihua Xu
Keyword(s):  
Questionnaire Survey ◽  
Smart Home ◽  
User Preferences ◽  
User Requirements ◽  
Intelligent Products ◽  
Home Users

Smart Home Products(SHP) have been developing for more than ten years and getting more favored by customers. There are many kinds of products with different functions. In addition to ordinary home users, Minshuku hosts, hotel owners also employ smart home products to manage the houses/apartments. There may be differences in the demand preferences and types of smart home products between Minshuku users and home users. This paper classified the smart home products by functions, and analyzed the demand preferences of minshuku users for these products through questionnaire survey and interviews. Exploring these user requirements and scenarios in which product used can promote the R & D and the iteration of intelligent products.

scholarly journals Pilot Users and Their Families: Inventing Flexible Practices in the Smart Grid

2015 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 54-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophie Nyborg
Keyword(s):  
Smart Grid ◽  
Smart Home ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Domestication Theory ◽  
Situated Perspective ◽  
Home Users ◽  
Innovative Capacity ◽  
Empirical Material

Households are increasingly the centre of attention in smart grid experiments, where they are dominantly framed in a role as ‘flexible consumers’ of electricity. This paper reports from the Danish smart grid demonstration project eFlex, which aimed to investigate the ‘flexibility potential’ of households, and it shows how householders are far from just ‘consumers’ in the system. Drawing on empirical material from ethnographic fieldwork in 49 households that tested smart grid equipment, the paper firstly demonstrates how eFlex users were also creative innovators. Secondly, by integrating user innovation literature, domestication theory and practice theory, the paper illustrates how the eFlex equipment interacted with a variety of collectively shared everyday practices in the household and argues that this unique family context accordingly had implications for the ‘innovative capacity’ of these pioneer users. The paper thus calls for smart grid stakeholders to begin taking the ‘innovator role’ of smart home users seriously, but equally calls for a more contextual and situated perspective when involving innovative users – their families have an equal part to play in the development of the smart grid.

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