Although connected devices and smart homes are now marketed to average consumers, little is known about how access-control systems for these devices fare in the real world. In this paper, we conduct three case studies that evaluate the extent to which commercial smart devices provide affordances related to access control. In particular, we examine an Internet-connected lighting system, bathroom...

The home IT environment is one the most promising areas for telecom operators. Nowadays, home area networks (HAN) are composed of a variety of heterogeneous devices, such as computers, webcams, sensors, set-top-boxes, etc. A key element in a HAN is the home gateway: a device managing the different networks in the home environment. But the management of this environment is a complex task, with a...

As the success of the Web increasingly brings us towards a fully connected world, home networking systems that connect and manage home appliances become the natural next step to complete the connectivity. Although there has been fast-growing interest in the design of smart appliances and environments, there has been little study on the dependability issues, which is essential to making home net...

The way in which we interact with our cars is changing, driven by the increased use of mobile devices, cloud-based services, and advanced automotive technology. In particular, the requirements and market demand for the Internet of Things (IoT) device-connected vehicles will continuously increase. In addition, the advances in cloud computing and IoT have provided a promising opportunity for deve...

In order to fully exploit the concept of the Smart Home, challenges associated with multiple device management in consumer facing applications have to be addressed. Specific to this is the management of resource usage in the home via the improved utilisation of devices, this is achieved by integration with the wider environment they operate in. The traditional model of the isolated device no lo...

As smart devices proliferate in the home and become universally networked, users will experience an increase in both the number of the devices they can control and the available interaction modalities for controlling them. Researchers have explored the possibilities of speechand gesturebased interfaces in desktop scenarios, but it is also necessary to explore these technologies in the context o...

This paper presents the prototype of a universal model for implementing the smart home. In this model, computers and various digital devices form a single network that operates at a high level of intelligence to provide and manage common services. The universal model includes a standard framework that will enable hardware and software vendors to develop consumer electronic (CE) devices that con...

Year after year more and more devices are entering modern households. Different types of devices with different and multiple purposes. More often these devices are not just being acquired but interconnected to produce new, small and intelligent home networks. The particular research covers particular aspects of these networks and attempts to analyze users’ requirements and expectations of such ...

Offices have long been networked, but the home is becoming an increasingly electronic and networked place. As the public demands (and governments mandate) an energy-efficient home, and everything from TVs to printers and refrigerators becomes networked, the energy consumption of these devices becomes critical. Most of these networked edge devices spend the majority of their time idle, but still...