Towards the Evolution of Smart Home Environments: A Survey

Abstract

Current lifestyles and technologies have inspired new ways to manage home appliances free of restrictions previously imposed by distance and time. So-called home automation technologies allow users to control and schedule common home tasks, often without human intervention. Several types of home automation systems have been proposed and classified according to their functionality, mode of user interaction, scheduling systems and cost-effectiveness. This paper reviews proposals in the smart home field from the last five years, considering both technical and functional aspects. The paper seeks to define automated or smart home systems by identifying common aspects of current such systems.

Heuristics-based mediation for building smart architectures at run-time

“…The implementation of the microservices is available in a GitHub repository 8 . The application of the STAS approach to other domains or architectures of smart environments is made possible by using the following guidelines.…”

“…For example, the recorder component requires some audio and video operations, and the social network component requires some user information provided by the header, whereas the RSS reader is an isolated component. The 8 GitHub repository containing the implementation of the STAS approachhttps://github.com/acgtic211/costrader behavior of each component is not described, since the purpose here is to create a suitable scenario for validating our approach.…”

“…Component-Based Software Engineering (CBSE) has long been considered an appropriate option for dealing with smart environments, for example, by applying component models to integrate heterogeneous applications, or using component interface standards to describe each piece of a system. Today, this technology has regained strength [3] for solving certain problems that arise in emerging smart environments such as mashups [4,5], smartphones [6], smart homes [7,8], smart buildings [9], or smart cities [2]. Furthermore, component-based development is being applied in certain recent solutions related to the Internet of Things (IoT) [10,11] and the Web of Things (WoT) [12,13].…”

Smart Meter Solution for Developing and Emerging Economies

“…aspects of smart meter operation, and users can communicate effectively with their meters and other appliances via a Home Area Network (HAN). This is also very important when it comes to control, a key performance indicator for smart home integration [20]. There are a number of network topologies that can be used to establish a HAN, including zigbee, wifi, Bluetooth, etc.…”

Architecture towards Technology—A Prototype Design of a Smart Home

“…Nowadays, smart systems are seen as context-aware systems for increasing building skills. They should be aware when something is not happening according to the user specifications or through environmental information-i.e., aimed to know what is happening and what are the users' intentions and needs in order to anticipate an action or an undesirable condition [12]. The future expectation regarding home automation is linked to contextual information that can be adapted to each user, which is essential to conceive user behavioral models.…”