Inexpensive wireless sensing products are dramatically reducing the cost of in-home sensing. However, these sensors have been found to fail often and prohibitive maintenance costs may negate the cost benefits of inexpensive hardware and do-it-yourself installation. In this paper, we describe a new technique called SMART that uses applicationlevel semantics to detect, assess, and adapt to sensor...

The widespread adoption of smart home devices (SHD) has increased privacy concerns among users, yet user-friendly controls are lacking. While there is a large body research focused on understanding and threat models SHD limited so far aimed at informing the development in SHDs. This paper presents results 25 interviews characterizing users' needs for controls. Through qualitative analysis inter...

Context. Living conditions for elderly people, including household services and healthcare provision in the home, have become a hot topic worldwide with the aging of the population and the rising societal costs for healthcare. The rapid increase of elderly populations putting a heavy strain on social welfare, healthcare providers, hospitals, nursing homes and service homes for elderly as well a...

Abstract Smart homes often face security problems caused by internal or external factors that can bring different both in terms of IoT components and at the overall level. In paper, a prototype is defined to analyze several indicators measure extent which residents’ requirements are met. At level scientific literature, analysis done from point view, interest here being for taken individually se...