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Smart homes are houses equipped by computational technology to assist inhabitants in several situations. To design these complex systems we have to take into account the inhabitant's experiences and needs. A modeling language supporting the semantic aspect allows modeling close to end user needs. Such language is in general based on the concept of ontology. However research including ontologies to...
Largely motivated by the ubiquitous computing vision, computers have been steadily becoming integrated in people's life, expanding the ability of software applications to interact with the environment and the users. This has led to the creation of smart environments that support people in their daily life by exploiting information acquired using sensor networks. These systems are usually populated...
Due to rising value of energy supplies, the need for managing electrical energy sources becomes prominent. In this paper, a smart plug device is presented; which provides features to measure energy consumption and recognizes the type of attached electrical devices. Furthermore, the proposed framework enables home controller systems to monitor and control home energy consumption efficiently. Subsequently...
Intelligent environments have been commercially available already over ten years without becoming such a mass product as expected. The expectations of potential users of mentioned solutions have not fulfilled yet due to missing globally accepted standards causing interoperability problems of different hardware and software components, complexity of configuration and use, lack of universal service...
Nowadays ubiquitous computing is spreading to all scopes of our lives. Smart environments are present at every location such us homes with automation and control devices, offices full of control networks to assist workers, or hotels with even more control devices in order to save energy and satisfy guests preferences. This paper focus on the proposal of a Reference Architecture for developing Smart...
This paper addresses the problem of learning situation models for providing context-aware services. Context for modeling human behavior in a smart environment is represented by a situation model describing environment, users, and their activities. A framework for acquiring and evolving different layers of a situation model in a smart environment is proposed. Different learning methods are presented...
This paper is concerned with constructing a prototype smart home environment which has been built in the research building of Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (KITECH) to demonstrate the practicability of a robot-assisted future home environment. Key functionalities that a home service robot must provide are localization, navigation, object recognition and object handling. A considerable amount...
Over the past few years, many research groups have attempted to build smart environments. Recently, several groups have been actively conducting research into the construction of smart home environment for service robots to be used as assistants. A home service robot must have are localization, navigation, object recognition, and object handling functionalities. These operations are usually performed...
One of the functionalities a service robot should have, to work in a smart environment, is object recognition and handling of objects. Many researchers have attempted to make service robots recognize objects in natural environments but no conventional vision systems can recognize target objects in complex scenes. We built a prototype smart environment in our research building at Korea Institute of...
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