Smart technologies play a key role in sustainable economic growth. They transform houses, offices, factories, and even cities into autonomic, self-controlled systems acting often without human intervention and thus sparing people routine connected with information collecting and processing. The paper gives an overview of a novel Wi-Fi technology, currently under development, which aims to organ...

Given increases in electricity consumptions, coupled with finite resources and technological advances, ICT-enabled electrical networks such as smart grids are increasingly being deployed by energy companies. One part of smart grids is smart meters, which are digital electrical meters, having the potential to increase energy efficiency in both residential and industrial sectors. However, a chall...

—Context-aware guidance systems need to observe and react to the user even if she does not always follow the instructions exactly. A human guide can easily adapt to such situations while a computer guide needs a model how to guide the user, has to work with unreliable sensor data to observe the user, and, in the case of multiple active processes, needs to assign the right sensor information to ...

The smart grid has received high interest for improving efficiency and reliability of power system. It adopts Information and System Technology for this purpose and several technologies are considered as system architecture of the smart grid. Consequently security issues of system should be considered for the smart grid. In this paper system architecture for the smart grid is presented. Require...

Smart environments are increasingly available and support users in their daily activities in different ways. This paper presents a service-based approach for users active in a smart environment such as a building, campus or public place. The concept is illustrated through the SSP project which provides environment-specific and contextual services on mobile devices running the Android platform.

With the increased integration of renewable energy sources the interaction between energy producers and consumers has become a bi-directional exchange. Therefore, the electrical grid must be adapted into a smart grid which effectively regulates this two-way interaction. With the aid of simulation, stakeholders can obtain information on how to properly develop and control the smart grid. In this...

Smart Cities combine diverse technologies to reduce their environmental impact and offer citizens a higher quality of life. In this paper we present an ongoing effort, within the context of Ciudad2020 project, for overcoming the challenge of homogenizing the citizen’s access to services offered by heterogeneous, and independent entities within a Smart City scenario. We describe how we are apply...

This is a short overview of the privacy issues for customers in the Smart Grid infrastructure. Smart meter and other devices within the Smart Grid produce a lot of privacy sensitive data. With this find grained data it is possible to make predictions about the daily routine of a household or create a movement profile of a vehicle. There are techniques to protect the privacy of a person in netwo...

FACULTY OF ENGINEERING, SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS SCHOOL OF ELECTRONICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE A progress report submitted for continuation towards a PhD Evolving Smart Environments

In order for a smart environment to provide services to its occupants, it must be able to detect its current state or context and determine what actions to take based on the context. We discuss the requirements for dealing with context in a smart environment and present a software infrastructure solution we have designed and implemented to help application designers build intelligent services a...