Home automation in the wild

Brush, A. J. Bernheim; Lee, Bongshin; Mahajan, Ratul; Agarwal, Sharad; Saroiu, Stefan; Dixon, Colin

doi:10.1145/1978942.1979249

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“…), running a variety of often proprietary protocols and applications, with limited exposed interfaces (Razzaque et al, 2016). Many surveys highlight that vendor lock-in and complicated security and manageability processes hinder the broader adoption of IoT technologies (Brush et al, 2011). Aiming to alleviate the interoperability issues, various IoT platforms are emerging, either domainspecific (e.g.…”

Section: Modular Interoperable Expandable Solutionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Biosensors and Internet of Things in smart healthcare applications: challenges and opportunities

Pateraki

Fysarakis²,

Sakkalis

et al. 2020

Wearable and Implantable Medical Devices

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Section: Modular Interoperable Expandable Solutionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Biosensors and Internet of Things in smart healthcare applications: challenges and opportunities

Pateraki

Fysarakis²,

Sakkalis

et al. 2020

Wearable and Implantable Medical Devices

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“…InstructableCrowd builds upon the long history of research and products in end-user programming (Lieberman et al, 2006), which aims at enabling non-programmers to author or compose their own applications. Early works in this field started from database (Hanson and Widom, 1993) and email management (Mackay et al, 1989), and later gradually became more common as more and more senors and effectors became available to general users (Bolchini et al, 2007;Bronsted et al, 2010;Brush et al, 2011;Dahl and Svendsen, 2011). For instance, CoScripter allowed end-users to program scripts by demonstration (Leshed et al, 2008;Bigham et al, 2009).…”

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confidence: 99%

InstructableCrowd: Creating IF-THEN Rules for Smartphones via Conversations with the Crowd

Huang¹,

Azaria²,

Romero³

et al. 2019

HCj

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Natural language interfaces have become a common part of modern digital life. Chatbots utilize text-based conversations to communicate with users; personal assistants on smartphones such as Google Assistant take direct speech commands from their users; and speech-controlled devices such as Amazon Echo use voice as their only input mode. In this paper, we introduce InstructableCrowd, a crowd-powered system that allows users to program their devices via conversation. The user verbally expresses a problem to the system, in which a group of crowd workers collectively respond and program relevant multi-part IF-THEN rules to help the user. The IF-THEN rules generated by InstructableCrowd connect relevant sensor combinations (e.g., location, weather, device acceleration, etc.) to useful effectors (e.g., text messages, device alarms, etc.). Our study showed that non-programmers can use the conversational interface of InstructableCrowd to create IF-THEN rules that have similar quality compared with the rules created manually. InstructableCrowd generally illustrates how users may converse with their devices, not only to trigger simple voice commands, but also to personalize their increasingly powerful and complicated devices.arXiv:1909.05725v1 [cs.HC]

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“…Research and commercial versions of smart homes, e.g., domestic environments with sensing, actuation, and networked devices, have long been built, including Mozer’s adaptive house [2], Georgia Tech Aware Home [3], Orange [4], eHome [5], and MIT’s Housen [6]. As pointed by Brush et al [7], although the term “smart home” referring to a home environment adapting to its inhabitants has caught the attention of the media and researchers, the term “home automation” defined as the capability to automate and control multiple disparate systems is a better description of currently available technology. Brought by the advent of affordable technology (e.g., low power networking such as Zigbee or Bluetooth LE, and network and computing on a chip), new types of smart devices pop up every day, targeted an expanding range of application domains, including user welfare (e.g., weight scales), security and information related monitoring (e.g., weather stations), as well as home automation (e.g., thermostats or smart locks), brown goods, etc.…”

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confidence: 99%

Future Spaces: Reinventing the Home Network for Better Security and Automation in the IoT Era

Boussard

Bui

Douville

et al. 2018

Sensors

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Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) are complex systems comprising computation, physical, and networking assets. Used in various domains such as manufacturing, agriculture, vehicles, etc., they blend the control of the virtual and physical worlds. Smart homes are a peculiar type of CPS where the local networking fundamentals have seen little evolution in the past decades, while the context in which home networks operate has drastically evolved. With the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT), the number and diversity of devices connected to our home networks are exploding. Some of those devices are poorly secured and put users’ data privacy and security at risk. At the same time, administrating a home network has remained a tedious chore, requiring skills from un-savvy users. We present Future Spaces, an end-to-end hardware-software prototype providing fine-grained control over IoT connectivity to enable easy and secure management of smart homes. Relying on Software-Defined Networking-enabled home gateways and the virtualization of network functions in the cloud, we achieve advanced networking security and automation through the definition of isolated, usage-oriented slices. This disrupts how users discover, control and share their connected assets across multiple domains, smoothly adapting to various usage contexts.

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Home automation in the wild

Cited by 312 publications

References 29 publications

Biosensors and Internet of Things in smart healthcare applications: challenges and opportunities

Biosensors and Internet of Things in smart healthcare applications: challenges and opportunities

InstructableCrowd: Creating IF-THEN Rules for Smartphones via Conversations with the Crowd

Future Spaces: Reinventing the Home Network for Better Security and Automation in the IoT Era

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