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Showing 1 to 20 of 64 for “"Smart homes"”.
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Making localization work for smart homes
There is a great interest in enabling smart homes that interact with their occupants and react to their needs. Central to this vision is the ability to identify and locate each occupant continuously. Current indoor localization systems, however, fall into two classes: device-based localization …
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Towards new notions of reliability for smart homes
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-05-01
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A user-guided personalization methodology for new smart homes
Recently, smart homes have become a centre of attention due to their provision of an enhanced quality of life via automation services with-in the homes. Smart homes technology, however, must learn and adapt in accordance with the habits of their residents in order to provide the relevant services. …
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Behavioural Demand Response for Future Smart Homes: Investigation of Demand Response Strategies for Future Smart Homes that Account for Consumer Comfort, Behaviour and Cybersecurity
Smart metering and precise measurement of energy consumption levels have brought more detailed information and interest on the actual load profile of a house which continues to improve consumer-retailer relationships. Participation in demand response (DR) programs is one of these relationships but …
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Privacy Modelling and Preservation for Assisted Living within Smart Homes
… to continue living and ageing in their own homes comfortably and safely. AAL solutions typically combine IoT technologies and machine learning to provide services that are context-aware and personalised. However, modern machine learning and internet of things systems present new challenges …
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Advancing the Development and Utilization of Data Infrastructure for Smart Homes
The smart home era is inevitably arising towards our everyday life. However, the scarcity of publicly available data remains a major hurdle in the domain, limiting people's capability of performing data analysis and their effectiveness in creating smart home automations. To mitigate this hurdle and …
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Explainable pattern modelling and summarization in sensor equipped smart homes of elderly
… them independently for longer periods of time. Smart homes equipped with sensors provide a potential solution by capturing various behavioral and physiological patterns of the residents. In this work, we develop techniques to model and detect changes in these patterns. The focus is on methods …
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Smart Homes and You: IOT Device Data Risks in an Ever-Changing World
<p>Social media applications are increasingly seen as a national security threat and a cause for concern because they can be used to create user profiles on government personnel and on US citizens. These profiles could be used for big data and artificial intelligence purposes of interest to foreign …
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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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Locomotion Traces Data Mining for Supporting Frail People with Cognitive Impairment
… abnormal movement patterns in instrumented smart-homes. In order to get rid of the noise introduced by indoor constraints and activity execution, we introduced novel visual feature extraction methods for locomotion data. Our solutions rely on locomotion traces segmentation, image-based …
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Rethinking Smart Home Design: Integrating Architectural Perspectives and Technologically-driven Design Thinking within a Framework
Smart homes, equipped with sensing, actuation, communication, and computation capabilities, enable automation and adaptation according to the occupants' needs. These capabilities work together to build holistic spatial and living experiences for the occupants. Smart technologies significantly …
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Smart Home Cybersecurity Challenges: An Assessment of End-User Knowledge and a Training Solution to Mitigate These Challenges
… are increasingly transforming their traditional homes into smart homes, adopting semi- and fully automated smart devices. This transformative shift, fueled by advancements in information technology, presents vast social and economic opportunities. Despite the burgeoning number of smart devices in …
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Towards realizing the internet-of-things vision : in-body, homes, and farms
… there is a huge interest in IoT systems for smart homes, smart cities, digital healthcare, data-driven agriculture, etc. However, for these IoT systems to deliver their intended vision, we need to address two important challenges: (a) operation under limited resources like power and …
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Bayesian Optimisation of Hyperparameters in Regression Models for Smart Energy and Environmental Systems
… energy production and consumption in smart homes and smart cities. Achieving this requires the development of advanced methods to enhance energy generation and consumption within rapidly growing hybrid energy systems. One effective approach is to improve the forecasting of renewable …
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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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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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Development of safety health monitoring device to prevent and control risk in confined space
… think of IoT in terms of independent cars and smart homes, but some of the best applications of Internet technology stuff in a very practical area. The main contribution of this thesis is to introduce an approach and provide a supporting platform for the automated synthesis of interoperability …
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A Wide-Bandwidth Galvanically Isolated Current Sensor with Frequency Modulation
… developments in areas such as electric vehicles, smart homes and industrial electronics. These sensors must also be able to provide measurements for wide bandwidths and with high sensitivity levels according to their application. In this thesis, a wide-bandwidth and highly sensitive fully …
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An API for smart objects and multimodal user interfaces for the smart home and office
… present these electronics and firmware for three smart robotic spaces. These smart spaces need powerful software and computing systems to enable the transformations and give magic to the space. We present software written for three smart robotic spaces. The right user interfaces are vital for rich …
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