Demographic and epidemiologic transitions in Europe have brought a new health care paradigm where life expectancy is increasing as well as the need for long-term care. To meet the resulting challenge, European healthcare systems need to take full advantage of new opportunities offered by technical advancements in ICT. The RADIO project explores a novel approach to user acceptance and unobtrusiv...

A lot of technologies can be used in home control subnet, but the hardware and software resources available for the home control subnet are limited. There are security problems easily seen. The paper gives the systematic analysis of the structure and function of home control subnet based on the general model of home network. The paper has also analyzed two types of major equipment, namely sub-g...

Mobile and Ubiquitous technologies have the potential to strengthen and enrich geographically dispersed multigenerational family relationships and networks in ways that go well beyond existing telecommunications technologies. Smart home technologies could be developed specifically to facilitate a rich range of interactions between geographically dispersed members of multi-generational and exten...

A great variety of simulation environments aim at supporting education through a modelling process. However, there are certain problems associated to modelling environments. We intend to build the solution model to every problem through plans based on intermediate languages outlined by the students. These learner plans are abstract solutions to the design problems. Our proposal consists in a to...

We address the problem of forecasting the usage of multiple electrical appliances by domestic users, with the aim of providing suggestions about the best time to run appliances in order to reduce carbon emissions and save money (assuming time-ofuse pricing), while minimising the impact on the users’ daily habits. An important challenge related to this problem is the modelling the everyday routi...

Wireless sensor networks are composed of low cost and extremely power constrained sensor nodes which are scattered over a region forming self organized networks, making energy consumption a crucial design issue. Thus, finite network lifetime is widely regarded as a fundamental performance bottleneck. These networks are used for various applications such as field monitoring, home automation, med...

In wireless sensor networks, building energy-efficient systems is one of the major challenges. In such networks, nodes are usually supplied by low power and small batteries. Many factors are involved in the energy consumption, and this issue may be considered as a cross-layer problem, from the hardware architecture to the application layer. This paper aims at presenting a hybrid solution for se...

Several companies have been developing domotic Stds. for building automation, enabling users to locally and remotely control several home devices, like: lights, power sockets, heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems, among others. Besides contributing to improve the building comfort, these Stds. may also be adopted for other purposes, namely in weblabs used in sciences and engineerin...

Understanding current issues and experiences with technologies in the home, and the relationships with work and school in how technologies are managed in the home, can be useful for anticipating issues with next generation technologies. This paper contributes to this understanding through in-home studies with ten UK households. Case data is presented that both reinforces current understandings ...

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) as a central part of cyber-physical systems are gaining commercial momentum in many areas, including building monitoring and intelligent home automation. Users wish to successively deploy hardware from different vendors. Interoperability is taken for granted by the customers who want to avoid the need for exhaustive configuration and set-up. Therefore, the need f...