The world is entering a new era, where Internet-of-Things (IoT), smart homes, and smart cities will play an important role in meeting the so-called big challenges. In the near future, it is foreseen that the majority of the world's population will live their lives in smart homes and in smart cities. To deal with these challenges, to support a sustainable urban development, and to improve the qu...

Smart-homes will play an important role in the near future improving living conditions for people. In this paper, we present the application of a multiagent platform Magentix2 for the development of MAS in smart-homes. The use of Magentix2 platform facilitates the management of the multiple occupancy in smart living spaces. Virtual organizations provide the possibility of defining a set of norm...

This paper showcases the different technologies available for making one’s home a smarter one. Lately the world has witnessed a great surge in the field of automation. With the increase in living standards of people the demand for smart homes has accentuated. So keeping in mind three main concepts of a smart home that is energy, safety and comfort, the paper brief’s about smart homes as an appl...

Smart monitoring of seniors behavioural patterns and more specifically activities of daily living have attracted immense research interest in recent years. Development of smart decision support systems to support the promotion of health smart homes has also emerged taking advantage of the plethora of smart, inexpensive and unobtrusive monitoring sensors, devices and software tools. To this end,...

One of the most promising domains of pervasive computing is in the area of healthcare. There has been a lot of interest in seeing how smart homes can foster independent living and an enhanced life style for elderly and disabled people, and how active, information-rich hospitals can support both patients and the medical staff in their daily activities. However, one of the key challenges in the a...

In the first instance it aims to it provide an overview addressing the state-of-the-art in the area of activity recognition in Smart homes. Smart homes are augmented residential environments equipped with sensors, actuators and devices. In early method, they used data-driven approaches only for sensor data in this paper introduces a knowledge-driven approach to real-time, continuous activity re...

Cybercrime and threats of cyber security is much closer to connected home ecosystems futures that ever been expected. Most of the research effort is focused on the defense mechanisms of cooperate and national infrastructures, not realizing that one of the weakest link in this systems comes from the devices used within connected smart homes of now and the future. The paper forms part of the rese...

Nowadays smart homes are becoming a rather fast progressing area for the future industrial developments. Apart of this, the new ICT smart advancing is obviously producing hidden cyber threats for the smart home inhabitants that require a special attention. This provides an inevitable necessity for exploration of possible precautionary measures for human protection. The paper describes a wearabl...

The global trend of increasing longevity has brought an enormous challenge in developing smart technologies to preserve independence and quality of life among the elderly in their own residence. The homes we live in have been transformed into smart environments. Most studies on smart home for the elderly have focused on enabling technologies for aging friendly smart environments such as health ...

Smart homes offer a potential benefit for individuals who want to lead independent lives at home and for loved ones who want to be assured of their safety. We have designed algorithms to detect anomalies and predict events based on sensor data collected in a smart environment. In this paper we explain how representing and reasoning about temporal relations improves the performance of these algo...