This paper presents a novel home emergency management system (HEMS) for managing home emergency situations. The proposed solution is a generic and based on normalized technologies. First, we have identified a set of requirements that a robust HEMS should satisfy (interoperability, security, mobility, etc). Then, we have opted for an extended finite-state machine to detect and manage emergency situations. We also adopted WebRTC to enable communication in an interoperable manner. For securing our HEMS, we have used HTTPS, password, contextual role-based access control, and we have finally installed all the public servers into a protected area. The result obtained from the test-bed demonstrates that the proposed HEMS fills all the listed requirements. Furthermore, it gives very interesting results in terms of round-trip delay time and scalability.
KEYWORDScontextual role-based access control, extended finite-state machine, home emergency management system, remote patient monitoring, smart home security and privacy, web real-time communication Softw Pract Exper. 2018;48:761-774. wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/spe
International audienceMobile devices nowadays are equipped with sensors and technologies that enable context evaluation. Those devices are not expensive in such a way that everyone can buy a smart phone easily. So, developing mobile context-awareness applications for helping dependent persons to deal with their everyday tasks is crucial. This paper aims to develop a new identities manage-ment system that runs on the dependent person's mobile device. This agent will assist dependent persons by giving them information, advices, instructions and helps regarding their activities of daily living. The main idea is to use a simple communication way to identify objects and subjects in the surrounding context of the assisted person. In this paper we propose efficient identification mecha-nisms that take benefit from our well understanding of the context. Our ap-proach simplifies the use of the interaction between dependent persons and the agent. Hence, unlike usual approaches, the identity of a given entity will not be universal by widely tailored to the current person’s context. In the case where the context is shared by many entities with the risk of identification ambiguity, our identification could use different means such as colors or locations towards others for identification of entities
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.