We introduce our research on smart environments, in particular research on smart meeting rooms and investigate how research approaches here can be used in the context of smart museum environments. We distinguish the identification of domain knowledge, its use in sensory perception, its use in interpretation and modeling of events and acts in smart environments and we have some observations on o...

Multi-application smart card technology facilitates applications to securely share their data and functionality. The security enforcement and assurance in application sharing is provided by the smart card firewall. The firewall mechanism is well defined and studied in the Issuer Centric Smart Card Ownership Model (ICOM), in which a smart card is under total control of its issuer. However, it is...

As an integral part of the Smart Grid, smart transformers both work independently to constantly regulate voltage and maintain contact with the smart grid in order to allow remote administration if needed and to provide information and feedback about the power supply and the transformers themselves. Through a process known as voltage optimization, a smart transformer provides the exact amount of...

Past researchers have examined the impact of personality types on technology usage among students from varying angles. However, due to dearth of studies on personality types and smart phone addiction among students in the Nigerian environment, this study investigated the relationship between personality types, smart phone addiction and specific phone usages among University students. A sample s...

Smart Contract Templates support legally-enforceable smart contracts, using operational parameters to connect legal agreements to standardised code. In this paper, we explore the design landscape of potential formats for storage and transmission of smart legal agreements. We identify essential requirements and describe a number of key design options, from which we envisage future development of...

Smart surveillance, is the use of automatic video analysis technologies in video surveillance applications. This paper attempts to answer a number of questions about smart surveillance: What are the applications of smart surveillance? What are the system architectures for smart surveillance? What are the key technologies? What are the some of the key technical challenges? and What are the impli...

The need to manage and secure a rapidly growing information network has focused increasing attention on smart card technology. Over the past decade, smart cards evolved from offering basic memory to complex systems with chips that incorporate powerful processing units with dedicated peripherals. This evolution enabled a wide range of applications. Smart card applications include financial trans...

This paper makes a number of contributions to the field of requirements analysis for Smart Homes. It introduces Use Cases as a tool for exploring the responsibilities of Smart Homes and it proposes a modification of the conventional Use Case structure to suit the particular requirements of Smart Homes. It presents a taxonomy of Smart-Home-related Use Cases with seven categories. It draws on tho...

Technological advancements have taken us closer to the “kitchen of the future” where everyday kitchen activities are seamlessly integrated with smart computing services. While there exist smart kitchen approaches, the explorative nature of the field encourages novel designs. This paper follows the trend by describing the design and development of the Kitchen AS-A-PAL, an infrastructure for faci...

The smart grid has received high interest for improving efficiency and reliability of power system. It adopts Information and System Technology for this purpose and several technologies are considered as system architecture of the smart grid. Consequently security issues of system should be considered for the smart grid. In this paper system architecture for the smart grid is presented. Require...