Homes and offices with smart devices/appliances are soon becoming a reality leading to comfort and automation. The heterogeneity of devices is a critical hurdle in the developing of a system that enables integration and centralized control. Significant literature is available in the area of automation and control of high-end devices and appliances. The nature of the work being proprietary and s...

The aim of home automation is to control home devices from a central control point. In this paper, we present the design and implementation of a low cost but yet flexible and secure internet based home automation system. The communication between the devices is wireless. The protocol between the units in the design is enhanced to be suitable for most of the appliances. The system is designed to...

The emergence of mobile devices in multimedia home entertainment demands new application scenarios like ubiquitous multimedia access. However today’s home entertainment appliances are usually based on a closed hardware and software design and do not provide the extensibility and flexibility needed. In this paper, we present a middleware that allows to control and connect distributed and mobile ...

This case report highlights the variety of wide complex tachycardias, and the need for their prompt management, in the growing population of patients with circulatory support devices. We present a case that demonstrates how a wide complex supraventricular tachycardia in a patient with a biventricular assist device can be safely and effectively targeted for treatment using percutaneous radiofreq...

Machine-to-machine communication (M2M) technology enables large-scale device communication and networking, including home devices and appliances. A critical issue for home M2M networks is how to efficiently integrate existing home consumer devices and appliances into an IP-based wireless M2M network with least modifications. Due to its popularity and widespread use in closed spaces, Wi-Fi is a ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the patients' attitudes about the devices, of which they use for long-term respiratory support at home. METHOD 200 consecutive patients were questioned about the treatment and devices of respiratory support at home by face to face questionnaire. Their records were taken from the archives of Social Security Agency. RESULTS 123 (61.5%) of the patients were men and 77 (38...

Home automation systems are ambient intelligence systems that are designed to help people proactively, but sensibly. In this paper we propose a system that learns and automates patterns in the interactions of the user with the home automation devices. We will show our approach and architecture. We use an event processing tool to handle the events from the home automation devices, prediction alg...

A server infrastructure allows wireless wearable appliances or portable handsets to access consumer services offered via the server. Services are accessed via a Universal Home Services Interface (UHSI) which is shared by all access devices. The UHSI can include a voice-activated interface to simplify usage from non-graphical terminals. In a home network the infrastructure resides on a home gate...

The home network is a new IT technology environment for making an offer of convenient, safe, pleasant, and blessed lives to people, making it possible to be provided with various home network services by constructing home network infrastructure regardless of devices, time, and places. This can be done by connecting home devices based on wire and wireless communication networks, such as mobile c...