Wireless sensor network (WSN) have become one of the most promising technology in sensing application environment. WSNs environment are able to provide a flexible deployment and maintenance of sensor networks. The sensor nodes can be deployed in highly dynamic environments and hence enable sensor networks to be potentially used in a wide range environment including military applications, securi...

The number of people with dementia is rising every year, and it is getting more expensive to provide care for them in specially designed care centres. Furthermore, some people with dementia prefer to live independently, and to be accompanied by informal and family caregivers. One way to meet this requirement of people with dementia is to place them in smart homes. Smart homes facilitate extra c...

To use smart home services efficiently, semantic modeling of different layers of home network resources as well as environment data and user's personal data is required. This suggests that a smart home system must be able to support data fusion and derive the context where services are operating in order to classify the new information provided by network agents correctly. Following the recent ...

M2M is a new advent in technology where uncountable machines can share their information between other homogenous or heterogeneous machine. It is very similar o IOT.M2M is going to be a stimulation force for current Market scenario with large area of application like Smart warrior system, Real-Time Agriculture System-health ,Home Automation and many more This paper addresses the research issues...

In this research we examine the generation specific acceptance motives of eHealth technologies in order to assess the likelihood of success for these new technologies. 280 participants (14 92 years of age) volunteered to participate in a survey, in which using motives and barriers toward smart home technologies were explored. The scenario envisaged was the use of a medical stent implemented int...

We have been working on home automation to support eldercare. This is an instance of long term humanautomation interaction in very intimate and personal settings with a potentially difficult user population. We report our design philosophy and some of the lessons learned relative to that philosophy from a six month field test with representatives of this user community. As a separate research t...

The article presents part of the research carried out within a project aimed at procuring interaction of people with disabilities and elderly with their environment through the use of information and communication technologies. We present methodological aspects related to participation models, user experience, technology acceptance and peer training. Technology was designed to test the effectiv...

This paper proposes a Domotic OSGi Gateway (DOG) able to expose different domotic networks as a single, technology neutral, home automation system. The adoption of a standard framework such as OSGi, and of sophisticated modeling techniques stemming from the Semantic Web research community, allows DOG to go beyond simple automation and to support reasoning-based intelligence inside home environm...

This paper examines the home bias phenomenon in international finance at the industry level. Using unique financial datasets, I calculate the sectoral home bias of 27 industries in 43 countries. The empirical findings include: (1) home bias is stronger when and where capital restrictions are greater, (2) nontradable sectors exhibit stronger home bias, and (3) home bias decreases in sectoral pro...