This works presents a user modelling service for a Smart Home – intelligent context-aware environment, providing personalized proactive support to its inhabitants. Diversity of Smart Home applications imposes various technical and implementation requirements, such as the need to model dependency of user preferences on context in a unified and convenient way, both for users and for application d...

The aim of this article is to bring forth the issue of integrating the services provided by intelligent artifacts in Ambient Intelligence applications. Specifically, we propose a Distributed Constraint Optimization procedure for achieving a functional integration of intelligent artifacts in a smart home. To this end, we employ ADOPT-N, a state-of-the-art algorithm for solving Distributed Constr...

Even if it is now simple and cheap to collect sensors information in a smart home environment, the main issue remains to infer high-level activities from these simple readings. The main contribution of this work is twofold. Firstly, the authors demonstrate the efficiency of a new procedure for learning Optimized CostSensitive Support Vector Machines (OCS-SVM) classifier based on the user inputs...

This paper reviews the goals of the Domoweb project and the solutions adopted to achieve them. As a result we enjoy a great support to develop smart home techniques and solutions. As a consequence of the acquired experiences a Smart home model is proposed as a division of four main categories. In relation with the smart home model, we show the essential features a smart environment prediction a...

Infrastructure and commercial products exists for home automation. The popularity of home automation has increased but ubiquitous living has not been adopted in everyday life yet even though the visions for it has been around for several years. This paper looks into home automation and smart homes and evaluates existing and planned ubiquitous interfaces intended for the home use. Author

In this paper, we address the problem of energy conservation and optimization in residential environments by providing users with useful information to solicit a change in consumption behavior. Taking care to highly limit the costs of installation and management, our work proposes a Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) approach, which consists of disaggregating the whole-house power consumption...

In this article we consider what it should mean to build ‘smartness’ or ‘intelligence’ into the home. We introduce an argument suggesting that it is people who imbue their homes with intelligence by continually weaving together things in their physical worlds with their everyday routines and distinct social arrangements. To develop this argument we draw on four ongoing projects concerned with d...

Domestic environments are receiving increasing attention as sites of deployment for pervasive technologies, as evidenced by the growing number of studies of homes and by the maturing of technologies in prototype aware/smart homes. The challenge now is to move technologies out of purpose built homes into everyday environments in ways that will fit with existing buildings and the people who live ...

Taking care of the elders constitutes a major issue in the western societies. Smart homes appear to be a socially and economically viable solution. They consist in habitats augmented with sensors and actuators enabling to achieve activity recognition and to provide assistive services to a resident. Stationary aspect of sensors used in most smart homes makes the concept difficult to deploy in ex...

The concept of “Smart Systems” is becoming pervasive, from smart homes to autonomous vehicles to smart grids and cities, and beyond. These advances are driven by small, embedded, and high-powered computing systems which interconnect using rapidly-advancing technologies, and which produce ever-increasing amounts of data. Although the “Internet of Things” may produce useful applications and new d...