BACKGROUND Around the world, populations are aging and there is a growing concern about ways that older adults can maintain their health and well-being while living in their homes. OBJECTIVES The aim of this paper was to conduct a systematic literature review to determine: (1) the levels of technology readiness among older adults and, (2) evidence for smart homes and home-based health-monitor...

With the rapid development of hardware and the emerging of smart devices like smart phones and wearable gadgets, software, the soul of those devices, becomes more and more important. However, program bugs, which often cause system failure and misbehaviors, is one of the most severe stumbling blocks for even further development of those technologies. Since automatically detecting all bugs in a p...

The Internet of Things aims to connect networked information systems and real-world business processes. Technologies, such as barcodes, radio transponders (RFID) and wireless sensor networks, which are directly attached to physical items and assets transform objects into Smart Items. These Smart Items deliver the data to realize the accurate real-time representation of ’things’ within the infor...

Active spaces and smart rooms are quickly gaining popularity in both the research arena, and in commercial projects. Active spaces are physical spaces populated with massive numbers of specialized embedded computing devices that increase human productivity by enabling users to interact seamlessly with the surrounding environment. Security for active spaces is necessary. In such settings, it is ...

On 9 October 2012 Gerrit Niezen successfully defended his PhD dissertation at Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands, entitled: “Ontologies for interaction: Enabling serendipitous interoperability in smart environments”. The work was supported by the SOFIA (Smart Objects For Intelligent Applications) project and funded through European JTI ARTEMIS under the subprogramme “Smart Envi...

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are gaining tremendous importance thanks to their broad range of commercial applications. Out of the fields of research in WSN, virtualization of wireless sensor network is a brand new research approach. In this age of economic recession, this state-of-the art technology can provide the opportunity to build economic business model for smart house. In this paper w...

Smart buildings and autonomous vehicles are expected to see rapid growth and adoption in the coming decades. Americans spend over 90% of their lives in buildings or automobiles, meaning that 90% of their lives could be spent interfacing with intelligent environments. EMBR Labs has developed EMBR Wave, a wearable thermoelectric system, for introducing thermal sensation as a connected mode of int...

In this paper the orchestration of wearable sensors with human computation is explored to provide map metadata for blind navigation. Technological navigation aids for blind must provide accurate information about the environment and select the best path to reach a chosen destination. Urban barriers represent dangers for the blind users. The dynamism of smart cities promotes a constant change of...

The response time of the smart electrical vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure is the key index of the system performance. The traffic between the smart EV charging station and the control center dominates the response time of the smart charging stations. To accelerate the response of the smart EV charging station, there is a need for a technology that collects the information locally and relay...

Smart spaces augment people’s lives with ubiquitous computing technology that provides increased communications, awareness, and functionality. However, smart spaces pose many technical challenges in device interaction/integration, user/environment perception, system interoperability and scalability, as well as security/privacy/trust. In this paper, we first examine some key issues in smart spac...