State of the Art in Smart Homes and Buildings

The work is motivated by the expanding demand and limited supply of long-term personal care for People with Dementia (PwD), and assistive technology as an alternative. Telecare allows PwD to live in the comfort of their homes for a longer time. It is challenging to have remote care in smart homes with ambient intelligence, using devices, networks, and activity and plan recognition. Our scope is limited to mostly related work on existing execution environments in smart homes, and activity and plan recognition algorithms which can be applied to PwD living in smart homes. PwD and caregiver needs are addressed in a more holistic healthcare approach, domain challenges include doctor validation and erroneous behaviour, and technical challenges include high maintenance and low accuracy. State-of-the-art devices, networks, activity and plan recognition for physical health are presented; ideas for developing mental training for mental health and social networking for social health are explored. There are two implications of this work: more needs to be done for assistive technology to improve PwD’s mental and social health, and assistive software is not highly accurate and persuasive yet. Our work applies not only to PwD, but also the elderly without dementia and people with intellectual disabilities.

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User in the Loop: Adaptive Smart Homes Exploiting User Feedback—State of the Art and Future Directions

Information ◽

10.3390/info7020035 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

pp. 35 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Abir Karami ◽

Anthony Fleury ◽

Jacques Boonaert ◽

Stéphane Lecoeuche

Keyword(s):

State Of The Art ◽

Smart Homes ◽

User Feedback ◽

Future Directions

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Energy Management for Smart Homes—State of the Art

Applied Sciences ◽

10.3390/app9173459 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 9 (17) ◽

pp. 3459 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Lashkari ◽

Chen ◽

Musilek

Keyword(s):

Smart Home ◽

State Of The Art ◽

Smart Homes ◽

Future Research ◽

Context Aware ◽

Future Perspectives ◽

Research Directions ◽

Pros And Cons ◽

Future Research Directions ◽

Household Activities

Smart home is a concept that aims to enhance the comfort of residents and facilitate household activities. The smart home is an application of ubiquitous computing which can provide the user with context-aware automated or assistive services in the form of ambient intelligence, remote control of home appliances, or automation. Smart homes attempt to integrate smartness into homes to guarantee the residents’ convenience, safety, and security, while conserving the energy. The capabilities of a smart home in the context of different applications, have been scrutinized for this investigation. Different proposed architectures, protocols, and infrastructures have been taken into consideration. As the data management process is a vital part of a smart home system, many procedures of data collection, storage, and analysis have been surveyed. Methods of data acquisition has also been discussed. Existing challenges, pros, and cons of proposed schemes along with future perspectives of smart homes are identified in this report, which is intended to promote future research directions.

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Residential Electrical Load Monitoring and Modeling – State of the Art and Future Trends for Smart Homes and Grids

Electric Power Components and Systems ◽

10.1080/15325008.2020.1834019 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 48 (11) ◽

pp. 1125-1143

Author(s):

Xinmei Yuan ◽

Peng Han ◽

Yao Duan ◽

Rosemary E. Alden ◽

Vandana Rallabandi ◽

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Keyword(s):

State Of The Art ◽

Smart Homes ◽

Future Trends ◽

Electrical Load ◽

Load Monitoring

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State of the art of smart homes

Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence ◽

10.1016/j.engappai.2012.05.002 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 25 (7) ◽

pp. 1313-1321 ◽

Cited By ~ 157

Author(s):

Liyanage C. De Silva ◽

Chamin Morikawa ◽

Iskandar M. Petra

Keyword(s):

State Of The Art ◽

Smart Homes

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State-of-the-Art Assistive Technology for People with Dementia

Handbook of Research on Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments - Advances in Computational Intelligence and Robotics ◽

10.4018/978-1-61692-857-5.ch016 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 300-319 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Clifton Phua ◽

Patrice Claude Roy ◽

Hamdi Aloulou ◽

Jit Biswas ◽

Andrei Tolstikov ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Assistive Technology ◽

State Of The Art ◽

Smart Homes ◽

The Elderly ◽

Plan Recognition ◽

Social Health ◽

People With Dementia ◽

Caregiver Needs ◽

Remote Care

The work is motivated by the expanding demand and limited supply of long-term personal care for People with Dementia (PwD), and assistive technology as an alternative. Telecare allows PwD to live in the comfort of their homes for a longer time. It is challenging to have remote care in smart homes with ambient intelligence, using devices, networks, and activity and plan recognition. Our scope is limited to mostly related work on existing execution environments in smart homes, and activity and plan recognition algorithms which can be applied to PwD living in smart homes. PwD and caregiver needs are addressed in a more holistic healthcare approach, domain challenges include doctor validation and erroneous behaviour, and technical challenges include high maintenance and low accuracy. State-of-the-art devices, networks, activity and plan recognition for physical health are presented; ideas for developing mental training for mental health and social networking for social health are explored. There are two implications of this work: more needs to be done for assistive technology to improve PwD’s mental and social health, and assistive software is not highly accurate and persuasive yet. Our work applies not only to PwD, but also the elderly without dementia and people with intellectual disabilities.

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ProTECting: An Application of Local Differential Privacy for IoT at the Edge in Smart Home Scenarios

10.5753/sbrc.2020.12308 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Israel De Castro Vidal ◽

André Luís da Costa Mendonça ◽

Franck Rousseau ◽

Javam De Castro Machado

Keyword(s):

Internet Of Things ◽

Smart Home ◽

Differential Privacy ◽

State Of The Art ◽

Smart Homes ◽

The Internet ◽

Smart Meter ◽

Conventional Models ◽

The Internet Of Things

With the growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) and Smart Homes, there is an ever-growing amount of data coming from within people's houses. These data are valuable for analysis and to discover patterns in order to improve services and produce resources more efficiently, e.g., using smart meter data to generate energy with less waste. Despite their high value for analysis, these data are intrinsically private and should be treated carefully. IoT data are fundamentally infinite, and this property makes it even more challenging to apply conventional models to achieve privacy. In this work, we propose a differentially private strategy to estimate frequencies of values in the context of Smart Home data, considering the infinite property of the data and focusing on getting better utility than state of the art.

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Special Issue on “Smart Homes”: Editors’ Notes

Sensors ◽

10.3390/s19040836 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 19 (4) ◽

pp. 836 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Alessandro Freddi ◽

Sauro Longhi ◽

Andrea Monteriù

Keyword(s):

Technology Diffusion ◽

State Of The Art ◽

Smart Homes ◽

Special Issue ◽

Smart Technology ◽

Comprehensive Collection ◽

Current State

In this editorial, we provide an overview of the content of the Special Issue on “Smart Homes”. The aim of this Special Issue is to provide a comprehensive collection of some of the current state-of-the-art technologies in the context of smart homes, together with new advanced theoretical and technological solutions that enable smart technology diffusion into homes.

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