The past decade has seen significant advancement in the field of consumer electronics. Various ‘intelligent’ appliances such as cellular phones, air-conditioners, home security devices, home theatres, etc. are set to realize the concept of a smart home. They have given rise to a Personal Area Network in home environment, where all these appliances can be interconnected and monitored using a sin...

Treatment of chronic respiratory failure with noninvasive ventilation (NIV) is standard pediatric practice, and NIV systems are commonly used in the home setting. Although practice guidelines on the perioperative management of children supported with home NIV systems have yet to be published, increasingly these patients are referred for consultation regarding perioperative management. Just as k...

background: people who use home blood glucose monitors may use their mobile phones in the close vicinity of medical devices. this study is aimed at investigating the effect of the signal strength of 900 mhz gsm mobile phones on the accuracy of home blood glucose monitors. methods: sixty non-diabetic volunteer individuals aged 21 - 28 years participated in this study. blood samples were analyzed...

C ontemporary homes can include a number of electrical devices aimed at making life easier, such as washing machines, dishwashers and vacuum cleaners. One can also find devices aimed at improving lifestyle, such as exercise bicycles or rowing machines. However, one can also find other types of devices that are aimed at supporting or saving people's life. These can include continuous positive ai...

In today’s life, an Internet connection in a home can be considered a utility like a telephone or even to some degree electricity. Not having an efficient home network is like having just one electrical outlet in the whole house versus having outlets throughout the house and being able to plug in all your appliances at once any time you want. Networking devices from wireless routers to storage,...

Modern home theater systems require users to control various devices simultaneously including a TV, audio equipment, DVD and video players, and a receiver. To perform the requested user functions in this situation, the user is required to know the functions and positions of the buttons on several remote controls. Users will become more confused if a ubiquitous home environment, which contains m...

UNLABELLED Home blood pressure (BP) measurements are indispensable for the improvement of hypertension management in medical practice as well as for the recognition of hypertension in the population. The Working Group for Establishment of Guidelines for Measurement Procedures of Self-Monitoring of Blood Pressure at Home of the Japanese Society of Hypertension has established standards for all t...

Technology advancements have made possible the implementation of embedded systems within appliances used in offices, industries and home. The automation system improves the lifestyle of the control of the devices at offices, colleges, industries and home. This seminar presents a possible solution whereby the user controls devices by employing a central Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) contr...

Konnex is one of the most important home computing middleware and represents the European domotic standard. Actually, there are many others home computing middlewares available and just wide diffused, but often they are scantily interoperable. In our opinion these facts represent the main obstacle to the domotic market growth. So, from a Konnex perspective, the main goal is to reach a high inte...

Home Automation using cloud network is a system that uses computers or mobile devices to control basic home functions and features automatically through the internet from anywhere around the world, an automated home is sometimes called a smart home. This network uses a consolidation of a mobile phone application and PC based program to provide the means of the user interface to the consumer. Th...