Abstract Year after year, smart home systems continue to increase in popularity among consumer households. Consumption of is also predicted steeply the coming years. Therefore, article aims at assessing attitude young consumers towards a and its devices. The based on primary secondary sources information. While information indicated homes their capacity as potential buyers, allowed for definiti...

Smart Homes need to sense their environment. Augmented appliances can help doing this but sensors are also required. Then, data fusion is used to combine the gathered information. The belief functions theory is adapted for the computation of small pieces of context such as the presence of people or their posture. In our application, we can assume that a lot of sensors are immobile. Also, physic...

Different from the past, in recent years, an increasing number of technology solutions have been started to be designed for the elderly and disabled due to the aging population and increasing awareness about common problems of the disabled. In smart homes, a group of smart, networked devices and sensors can help make the elderly and disabled more independent by letting family members, relatives...

Despite the increasing presence of Internet of Things (IoT) devices inside the home, we know little about how users feel about their privacy living with Internet-connected devices that continuously monitor and collect data in their homes. To gain insight into this state of affairs, we conducted eleven semi-structured interviews with owners of smart homes, investigating privacy values and expect...

The adoption of smart devices in homes is rapidly advancing, and information on our daily routines and activities is collected, processed, disseminated by these devices in order to function. People have specific ideas as to which, when, why, and how information on them may be collected and used. They feel infringed in their privacy if data collection practices deviate. To address this issue, we...

The paper is discussing security threats identification perspectives in modern smart homes modeled as cyber-physical systems that encompass technologies, human factors, their activities and specifics. Generally, the modeling process is performed with the help of Entity-Relationship representation, combined with experts’ knowledge in an own ad-hoc software environment. The obtained results give ...