DocumentCode :
742022
Title :
Wireless Architectures for Heterogeneous Sensing in Smart Home Applications: Concepts and Real Implementation
Author :
Viani, F. ; Robol, F. ; Polo, A. ; Rocca, Paolo ; Oliveri, G. ; Massa, A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Univ. of Trento, Trento, Italy
Volume :
101
Issue :
11
fYear :
2013
Firstpage :
2381
Lastpage :
2396
Abstract :
Application of wireless technologies in the smart home is dealt with by pointing out advantages and limitations of available approaches for the solution of heterogeneous and coexisting problems related to the distributed monitoring of the home and the inhabitants. Some hot challenges facing the exploitation of noninvasive wireless devices for user behavior monitoring are then addressed and the application fields of smart power management and elderly people monitoring are chosen as representative cases where the estimation of user activities improves the potential of location-aware services in the smart home. The problem of user localization is considered with great care to minimize the invasiveness of the monitoring system. Wireless architectures are reviewed and discussed as flexible and transparent tools toward the paradigm of a totally automatic/autonomic environment. With respect to available state-of-the-art solutions, our proposed architecture is based also on existing wireless devices and exploits, in an opportunistic way, the characteristics of wireless signals to estimate the presence, the movements, and the behaviors of inhabitants, reducing the system complexity and costs. Selected and representative examples from real implementations are presented to give some insight on state-of-the-art solutions also envisaging possible future trends.
Keywords :
building management systems; home automation; mobile computing; power meters; wireless sensor networks; autonomic environment; distributed monitoring; elderly people monitoring; heterogeneous sensing; location-aware services; noninvasive wireless devices; smart home; smart power management; user behavior monitoring; user localization; wireless architectures; wireless technologies; Computer architecture; Home automation; Intelligent sensors; Smart homes; Wireless communication; Wireless networks; Wireless sensor networks; Assistive environment; behavior monitoring; passive localization and tracking; power metering; smart home;
fLanguage :
English
Journal_Title :
Proceedings of the IEEE
Publisher :
ieee
ISSN :
0018-9219
Type :
jour
DOI :
10.1109/JPROC.2013.2266858
Filename :
6568872
Link To Document :
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