Smart homes to improve the quality of life for all

Abstract

Abstract-A home is smart when, being aware of its own state and that of its users, is capable of controlling itself in order to support the user wishes and thus improving their quality of life. This holds both for users with special needs and for those with ordinary domestic needs. In this paper, we overview the Smart Homes for All project which represents the current state of the art with respect to software control and user interfaces in the smart homes arena.

Agent-Based Context-Aware Architecture for a Smart Living Room

“…Several interesting architectures and middleware systems for smart spaces have been developed in the last years. Several of them were layered architectures most of which have used agent technologies like the ones proposed by [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18]. The Smart-M3 was based on a blackboard architecture model [19].…”

Architecture Pattern for Context-Aware Smart Environments

“…As a part of Smart Homes for All (SM4All) project (Aiello, et al, 2011) (SM4All, 2008, which also started in 2008, a smart apartment was constructed in Rome, Italy. The project implemented sophisticated AI planning techniques, which produce a set of actions to adapt the house to user's needs in every possible situation.…”

“…Though the name "static" implies that the information does not change frequently, it is nevertheless possible that the information will change automatically in the course of system's operation. For example, the SM4All smart home environment (Aiello, et al, 2011) provides the automatic device discovery feature.…”

“…As we already mentioned, the project provides capabilities for external programs to use the environment and middleware while applying their own reasoning. Thus such external programs will represent the Reasoning layer, the Semantic Context & Service Management layer provides all interfaces needed Smart Homes for All (SM4All) (Aiello, et al, 2011) was a European-wide created a smart apartment in Rome, Italy. The project featured several innovative ideas environments, including usage of the Brain Computer Interface for issuing the commands, using planning et of actions for a complex commands, and sophisticated execution mechanisms issues when executing the commands.…”

“…SM4All Architecture. Image source: (Aiello, et al, 2011) & Service Management layer contains the Service Manager, which availability of services, the about device in the common ontology, and the Web party programs wishing to interact with the layer of the pattern, with the Service Manager component, the Semantic Context Manager behaving as static storage of the component.…”