Control smart homes easily with simple touch

Abstract

Ambient Intelligence (AmI) environments contain many smart artifacts and appliances that users can control automatically or manually. In the manual mode, user interacts with intelligent controllers, touch screens or mobile-phones to control electric and electronic appliances in the house. In the past few years, various research efforts have focuses on the creation of an abstract application that can control every appliance in the environment through smart controllers. This paper describes the Control Home Easily application that auto-generates user interfaces and allows users to manage easily home appliances of every room from inside or outside the home with various interactive units through simple touch. A web application has also been developed that can be run through mobile phones. These approaches help simple users to accept AmI technologies in the home environment and reduce the development time of a new smart artifact.

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“…These environments integrate various hardware and software technologies, allowing users to control electrical and electronic devices automatically or manually. To simulate the needs of such an environment, a development laboratory (sandbox) has been equipped with various wireless and wired sensor technologies [ 4 ] specifically tailored for home automation. The case study researched to form an understanding of the significance of: (a) the accuracy, (b) the data loss and rate, (c) the radio range, penetration and attenuation, (d) the harmful radiation level, as well as (e) the total cost of hardware infrastructure [ 4 ].…”

“…To simulate the needs of such an environment, a development laboratory (sandbox) has been equipped with various wireless and wired sensor technologies [ 4 ] specifically tailored for home automation. The case study researched to form an understanding of the significance of: (a) the accuracy, (b) the data loss and rate, (c) the radio range, penetration and attenuation, (d) the harmful radiation level, as well as (e) the total cost of hardware infrastructure [ 4 ]. The first application developed by the authors in the context of AmI was CAMILE [ 5 ], which allows users with disabilities to control lights easily through an accessible user interface.…”