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Showing 1 to 20 of 90 for “"Smart Home"”.
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Smart home technology for aging
… the analysis of the technologies with which a Smart Home is built to improve the quality of life of the elderly. A great deal of emphasis is given to the sensor technologies that are the back bone of these Smart Homes. In addition to the Analysis of these technologies a survey of commercial …
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Smart Home Governance in Hong Kong and Vancouver: A Comparative Study of Smart Home Technologies
The idea of ‘smart cities’ has been proposed by some scholars as an overall response to the energy challenges associated with climate change. A more granular or localized aspect of smart cities, namely the concept of 'smart homes', it is argued in this work, can provide an important focal point for …
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Energy management for the smart home
… and take appropriate action on their appliances. Home energy management systems attempt to provide convenience to consumers as well as increase their participation in demand response programs. They do this by enabling autonomous control and remote control of appliances. In addition, a home gateway …
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Securing IoT Gateways in Smart Home Environments
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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A tailored smart home for dementia care
… formal). It is commonly accepted that utilising Smart Homes (SH), as an instance of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) technologies, for dementia care could potentially facilitate the care and consequently improve the quality of PwDs’ well-being. Nevertheless, most of the studies view dementia care as …
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A contextual authentication framework for smart home environments
A smart home is one equipped with connected Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices that can be remotely accessed and controlled. Access to smart home devices is mostly achieved through smartphones and tablet computers, but this comes with security challenges such as unauthorized access and interception …
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ZigBee-based Firmware Updating Algorithms in Smart Home Environment
Smart home system is comprised of two parts: the home gateway and a number of home appliances. ZigBee technology has great advantage (or IEEE 802.15.4) and is widely used in this system. Therefore, updating the smart home ZigBee firmware is essential in the practice. Since the ZigBee network …
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Simulating IoT Frameworks and Devices in the Smart Home
… a virtual network testbed for implementing smart home IoT Frameworks. It consists of a simulated home network made up of multiple Virtual Machines (VM), simulated smart home devices and an implementation of the OpenHAB framework to integrate the devices. Simulated devices are designed to be …
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Employing multi-modal sensors for personalised smart home health monitoring.
Smart home systems are employed worldwide for a variety of automated monitoring tasks. FITsense is a system that performs personalised smart home health monitoring using sensor data. In this thesis, we expand upon this system by identifying the limits of health monitoring using simple IoT sensors, …
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A Study of Home Builder Advertising for Smart Home Technologies
<p>The purpose of this research is to discover if home builders along the Wasatch Front in Utah are advertising smart home technologies. Research was conducted by a review of the display advertisements placed in the Saturday and Sunday editions of The Deseret Morning News/Salt Lake Tribune from …
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Community-Based Optimal Scheduling of Smart Home Appliances Incorporating Occupancy Error
… study a mixed integer linear programming based smart appliance scheduling scheme with real-time pricing and algorithm to service as motion sensor were proposed. It can be said that the proposed scheduling scheme and pricing scheme (real-time pricing) provided enough incentives for the customers …
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Simulated Study Platform To Test Smart Home Technologies For Older Adults
… is the need to age independently, preferably at home. Smart home technologies such as connected lighting, security systems and sensors have been suggested to provide older adults with better health, safety and peace of mind. While these smart home technologies promise great benefits, their …
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Human-Building Symbiotic Communication with Voice-based Proactive Smart Home Assistants
The IoT-embedded smart homes have a high level of home automation and could change many aspects of the residents' daily lives, such as control, convenience, comfort, and energy-saving. The rise of voice-based virtual assistants like Amazon's Alexa, Google assistants in the past five years has …
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Model-Based Testing of Smart Home Systems Using EFSM, CEFSM, and FSMApp
<p>Smart Home Systems (SHS) are some of the most popular Internet of Things (IoT) applications. In 2021, there were 52.22 million smart homes in the United States and they are expected to grow to 77.1 million in 2025 [71]. According to MediaPost [74], 69 percent of American households have at least …
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Fingerprinting the Smart Home: Detection of Smart Assistants Based on Network Activity
<p>As the concept of the Smart Home is being embraced globally, IoT devices such as the Amazon Echo, Google Home, and Nest Thermostat are becoming a part of more and more households. In the data-driven world we live in today, internet service providers (ISPs) and companies are collecting large …
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Enhancing data transparency and privacy control in smart home and genetic testing
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2026-08-01
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IntuiSec : a framework for intuitive user interaction with security in the smart home
… a framework for intuitive user interaction with Smart Home security. The design approach of IntuiSec is to introduce a layer of indirection between user-level intent and the system-level security infrastructure. This layer is implemented by a collection of distributed middleware and user-level …
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Features Interaction Detection and Resolution in Smart home systems Using Agent-Based Negotiation Approach
Smart home systems (SHS) have become an increasingly important technology in modern life. Apart from safety, security, convenience and entertainment, they offer significant potential benefits for the elderly, disabled and others who cannot live independently. Furthermore, smart homes are …
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