The growing market for smart home IoT devices promises new conveniences for consumers while presenting novel challenges for preserving privacy within the home. Specifically, Internet service providers or neighborhood WiFi eavesdroppers can measure Internet traffic rates from smart home devices and infer consumers’ private in-home behaviors. Here we propose four strategies that device manufactur...

The smart home technology controls the electronic devices in home environment using mobile phones. There are few solutions available in market to control home appliance electronic devices. One of the solutions is to control each device using a separate remote control. There are two problems associated with this solution. Firstly, it is difficult to manage separate controller for each device and...

The introduction of reduced and more powerful electronics has allowed the transition of medical equipment such as respiratory support devices from the hospital to the patient's home environment. Even if this move could be beneficial for the patient, the clinician ends up in a delicate situation where little or no direct supervision is possible on the delivered treatment.Progress in technologies...

Eight major consumer electronics manufacturers have come up with an open standard enabling home entertainment devices to communicate intelligently with each other. The HAVi (Home Audio Video Interoperability) standard promises to bring true platform independent interoperability to consumer devices using high bandwidth IEEE 1394 (FireWire) as the connecting medium. This paper studies the HAVi st...

The purpose of building smart home system is some home devices (audio and video equipment, lighting systems, air conditioning control, security systems, digital cinema systems, network appliances, etc.) through smart home network automation, broadband and wireless networks, and we can achieve remote control home devices. The paper proposes application of RFID technology and ontology model in de...

Intelligent home furnishing network is to build a communication network in a home furnishing, various appliances connected to each other, to realize the remote use and control of intelligent home furnishing all devices on a network and any required information exchange. First of all to establish a communication network in a home furnishing, provide the necessary pathway for family information, ...

Residential consumers contribute to a substantial amount of electricity consumption. To ensure grid stability, a Home Energy Management System (EMS) that assists household inhabitants in operating home devices to achieve optimized energy usage is needed. Previous designs of Home EMS often have some issues. First, it places high implementation overhead on device vendors to manufacture devices co...

Our home today is a place where more and more digital devices meet. Those devices not only satisfy the user’s needs but also cooperate with other equipments independently to provide intelligent services for people living inside the house. However, in such environment with many appliances from different manufactures, it may not be straightforward to interconnect all the devices. What is required...