scholarly journals Breaking Down the Compatibility Problem in Smart Homes: A Dynamically Updatable Gateway Platform

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (10) ◽  
pp. 2783 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linh-An Phan ◽  
Taehong Kim
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Software Architecture ◽  
Heterogeneous Networks ◽  
Execution Time ◽  
Smart Home ◽  
Smart Homes ◽  
Smart Devices ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Adoption Rate ◽  
The Internet Of Things

Smart home is one of the most promising applications of the Internet of Things. Although there have been studies about this technology in recent years, the adoption rate of smart homes is still low. One of the largest barriers is technological fragmentation within the smart home ecosystem. Currently, there are many protocols used in a connected home, increasing the confusion of consumers when choosing a product for their house. One possible solution for this fragmentation is to make a gateway to handle the diverse protocols as a central hub in the home. However, this solution brings about another issue for manufacturers: compatibility. Because of the various smart devices on the market, supporting all possible devices in one gateway is also an enormous challenge. In this paper, we propose a software architecture for a gateway in a smart home system to solve the compatibility problem. By creating a mechanism to dynamically download and update a device profile from a server, the gateway can easily handle new devices. Moreover, the proposed gateway also supports unified control over heterogeneous networks. We implemented a prototype to prove the feasibility of the proposed gateway architecture and evaluated its performance from the viewpoint of message execution time over heterogeneous networks, as well as the latency for device profile downloads and updates, and the overhead needed for handling unknown commands.

scholarly journals Achieving Differential Privacy in Smart Home Scenarios

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Israel C. Vidal ◽  
Franck Rousseau ◽  
Javam C. Machado
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Smart Home ◽  
Differential Privacy ◽  
Smart Homes ◽  
The Internet ◽  
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 intrinsically private and should be treated carefully, despite their high value for analysis. In this work, we propose a differentially private strategy to estimate frequencies of values in the context of Smart Home data.

scholarly journals A Systematic Content Review of Artificial Intelligence and the Internet of Things Applications in Smart Home

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 3074 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samad Sepasgozar ◽  
Reyhaneh Karimi ◽  
Leila Farahzadi ◽  
Farimah Moezzi ◽  
Sara Shirowzhan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Smart Home ◽  
Smart Homes ◽  
Research Direction ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Main Question ◽  
Smart Energy Systems ◽  
Assistive Systems ◽  
The Internet Of Things

This article reviewed the state-of-the-art applications of the Internet of things (IoT) technology applied in homes for making them smart, automated, and digitalized in many respects. The literature presented various applications, systems, or methods and reported the results of using IoT, artificial intelligence (AI), and geographic information system (GIS) at homes. Because the technology has been advancing and users are experiencing IoT boom for smart built environment applications, especially smart homes and smart energy systems, it is necessary to identify the gaps, relation between current methods, and provide a coherent instruction of the whole process of designing smart homes. This article reviewed relevant papers within databases, such as Scopus, including journal papers published in between 2010 and 2019. These papers were then analyzed in terms of bibliography and content to identify more related systems, practices, and contributors. A designed systematic review method was used to identify and select the relevant papers, which were then reviewed for their content by means of coding. The presented systematic critical review focuses on systems developed and technologies used for smart homes. The main question is ”What has been learned from a decade trailing smart system developments in different fields?”. We found that there is a considerable gap in the integration of AI and IoT and the use of geospatial data in smart home development. It was also found that there is a large gap in the literature in terms of limited integrated systems for energy efficiency and aged care system development. This article would enable researchers and professionals to fully understand those gaps in IoT-based environments and suggest ways to fill the gaps while designing smart homes where users have a higher level of thermal comfort while saving energy and greenhouse gas emissions. This article also raised new challenging questions on how IoT and existing developed systems could be improved and be further developed to address other issues of energy saving, which can steer the research direction to full smart systems. This would significantly help to design fully automated assistive systems to improve quality of life and decrease energy consumption.

scholarly journals Consumer Attitudes to the Smart Home Technologies and the Internet of Things (IoT)

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (23) ◽  
pp. 7913
Author(s):  
Elena Korneeva ◽  
Nina Olinder ◽  
Wadim Strielkowski
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Smart Grids ◽  
Smart Home ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Smart Homes ◽  
European Countries ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Eastern European Countries ◽  
The Internet Of Things

This paper focuses on the consumer preferences for the so-called “smart homes” (also known as “smart houses”) which represent a novel addition and a product of the on-going digitalization and the deployment of the Internet of Things (IoT). The major scientific contribution of our study is the empirical model build on the data from the online questionnaire conducted with randomly selected respondents (N = 523) from four European Union (EU) countries and Russia. Even though our results are subject to limitations (no Southern of Northern European countries are included in the scope of this research, which might have yielded different results due to the differences in wealth of citizens and climate in comparison to the Central and Eastern European countries or Germany), they demonstrate that the users included in our sample generally feel inclined to the smart homes technologies and perceive them as a plausible means for improving the safety and security of their lives. On the other hand, some respondents from our sample expressed their concerns over the cybersecurity and technology dependence issues associated with smart homes. It is also apparent that younger respondents (aged 16–35) featured in our research are more worried about their personal data being monitored and analyzed (with a pending threat of leakages). All these results are original and constitute an important scientific value-added to the field of research in smart home technologies and their acceptance by the general public. We demonstrate that the further enhancement of smart homes, and the increase of their popularity and affordability among the customers both in the Central and Eastern European countries and beyond, might depend on the development of the smart grids which these smart homes are an integral part of. The reliability of the smart systems constitutes the key element for achieving the satisfaction of the smart homes residents, and hence needs to be achieved and secured in an effective way. This would ensure the right mix and balance of energy security and efficiency for all customers involved in this process.

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

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.

scholarly journals Internet of Things-Aided Smart Home Off-Grid Photovoltaic-Powered

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 29-42
Author(s):  
Layse Nascimento ◽  
Joice Machado ◽  
Caio Rodrigues ◽  
Rhuan Ribeiro ◽  
Glauber Marques ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Smart Home ◽  
Fire Detection ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Standard Of Living ◽  
Smart Devices ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Relative Air Humidity ◽  
The Internet Of Things ◽  
Pv Power Generation

Nowadays, smart devices which can be controlled remotely by the Internet appear in the preference setting rather than the manual control to improve the standard of living. In this paper, a domotic system integrated into PV power generation has been developed on the Internet of Things (IoT). The system uses sensors for fire detection and monitoring of the temperature and relative air humidity. Based on real-time, the home automation off-grid system is developed so that makes the system cost-effective and portable.

scholarly journals Development of a system for the security assessment for smart homes based on the IoT

Connectivity ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 149 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ya. O. Halay ◽  
◽  
A. P. Bondarchuk ◽  
O. M. Tkalenko ◽  
O. V. Polonevych ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Smart Home ◽  
Smart Homes ◽  
Assessment System ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Security Assessment ◽  
Security Attacks ◽  
Home Based ◽  
The Internet Of Things

This article is about developing a security assessment system for smart homes that use Internet of Things technology. The Internet of Things (IoT) is a nascent paradigm focused on the relationship of things or devices to each other and users. Over time, most connections on the Internet of Things go from «people interact with things» to «things interact with things». This technology is expected to be an important milestone in the development of smart homes to bring convenience and efficiency to our lives and our homes. But the introduction of this IoT technology in our homes will be important for the safety of these technologies. Connecting all smart objects inside the house to the Internet and to each other leads to new security and privacy issues, such as the confidentiality, authenticity, and integrity of the data that is perceived and exchanged. These technologies are very vulnerable to various security attacks that make a smart home based on IoT unsafe to live in, so security risks need to be assessed to assess the situation of smart homes. For any technology to be successful and widely used, it must gain the trust of users, ensuring sufficient security and confidentiality. As in all sectors, maintaining security will be the most important challenge to overcome. As homes become more computerized and filled with devices, potential computer security attacks and their impact on residents need to be investigated. This paper uses a methodology that focuses mainly on information assets and examines containers (technical, physical and human) and conducts security risk assessments to highlight various security vulnerabilities in the smart home based on the Internet of Things, the consequences and proposing measures against identified problems. that meet most safety requirements. Finally, it offers recommendations for users.

CLOUD BASED INTERNET OF THINGS FOR SMART CONNECTED OBJECTS

2019 ◽  
Vol 01 (02) ◽  
pp. 31-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Duraipandian M. ◽  
Vinothkanna R.
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Smart Home ◽  
Electricity Consumption ◽  
Considerable Improvement ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Internet Of Things ◽  
At Home

The paper proposing the cloud based internet of things for the smart connected objects, concentrates on developing a smart home utilizing the internet of things, by providing the embedded labeling for all the tangible things at home and enabling them to be connected through the internet. The smart home proposed in the paper concentrates on the steps in reducing the electricity consumption of the appliances at the home by converting them into the smart connected objects using the cloud based internet of things and also concentrates on protecting the house from the theft and the robbery. The proposed smart home by turning the ordinary tangible objects into the smart connected objects shows considerable improvement in the energy consumption and the security provision.

From Users’ Intentions to IF-THEN Rules in the Internet of Things

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-33
Author(s):  
Fulvio Corno ◽  
Luigi De Russis ◽  
Alberto Monge Roffarello
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Smart Devices ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Real World Data ◽  
Original Intention ◽  
Recommendation Accuracy ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Internet Of Things

In the Internet of Things era, users are willing to personalize the joint behavior of their connected entities, i.e., smart devices and online service, by means of trigger-action rules such as “IF the entrance Nest security camera detects a movement, THEN blink the Philips Hue lamp in the kitchen.” Unfortunately, the spread of new supported technologies makes the number of possible combinations between triggers and actions continuously growing, thus motivating the need of assisting users in discovering new rules and functionality, e.g., through recommendation techniques. To this end, we present , a semantic Conversational Search and Recommendation (CSR) system able to suggest pertinent IF-THEN rules that can be easily deployed in different contexts starting from an abstract user’s need. By exploiting a conversational agent, the user can communicate her current personalization intention by specifying a set of functionality at a high level, e.g., to decrease the temperature of a room when she left it. Stemming from this input, implements a semantic recommendation process that takes into account ( a ) the current user’s intention , ( b ) the connected entities owned by the user, and ( c ) the user’s long-term preferences revealed by her profile. If not satisfied with the suggestions, then the user can converse with the system to provide further feedback, i.e., a short-term preference , thus allowing to provide refined recommendations that better align with the original intention. We evaluate by running different offline experiments with simulated users and real-world data. First, we test the recommendation process in different configurations, and we show that recommendation accuracy and similarity with target items increase as the interaction between the algorithm and the user proceeds. Then, we compare with other similar baseline recommender systems. Results are promising and demonstrate the effectiveness of in recommending IF-THEN rules that satisfy the current personalization intention of the user.

scholarly journals Design a blockchain-based middleware layer in the Internet of Things Architecture

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanweer Alam
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Fog Computing ◽  
Smart Devices ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Generation Computing ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Iot Devices ◽  
The Internet Of Things

In next-generation computing, the role of cloud, internet and smart devices will be capacious. Nowadays we all are familiar with the word smart. This word is used a number of times in our daily life. The Internet of Things (IoT) will produce remarkable different kinds of information from different resources. It can store big data in the cloud. The fog computing acts as an interface between cloud and IoT. The extension of fog in this framework works on physical things under IoT. The IoT devices are called fog nodes, they can have accessed anywhere within the range of the network. The blockchain is a novel approach to record the transactions in a sequence securely. Developing a new blockchains based middleware framework in the architecture of the Internet of Things is one of the critical issues of wireless networking where resolving such an issue would result in constant growth in the use and popularity of IoT. The proposed research creates a framework for providing the middleware framework in the internet of smart devices network for the internet of things using blockchains technology. Our main contribution links a new study that integrates blockchains to the Internet of things and provides communication security to the internet of smart devices.

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