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The current populace of the elderly is apparently abandoned by the younger generations due to their individual circumstances. To heighten the vitality and strengthen the fitness of elders, assisting a home care system can be an admittance that provides comprehensive nursing and monitoring them in the regular interim. To deliver an interactive service supervision platform to the elders a smart environment...
The great expansion of the Internet of Things in every aspect of daily life requires expertise and considerable skills in different fields and at different levels to create ad-hoc applications, and deliver suitable user experience. Developers have to deal with heterogeneous technologies, communication formats and protocols. They, in general, ask for new solutions that speed up the prototyping of applications,...
The need for the internet of things technologies becomes a state-of-the-art in this era. Human beings do many activities during their daily life which, in certain cases, should to be recognized and understood. Intelligent systems are considered to be the most advanced methods to analyze such these complex tasks. Spiking neural network is one of the most powerful intelligent techniques that has the...
The application of Smart Environment plays an important role in the development of advanced science and technology and therefore more and more attention. And activity recognition is the basis of Smart Environment, which reflects the intelligence of Smart Environment. However, there are two difficult and important problems which limiting the popularization of Smart Environment existing: high costs...
In recent years, researches on smart environments (SEs) especially smart homes for senior care have attracted great attention. One important issue in constructing such kind of SEs is privacy, because the target environment (e.g. a home or a room) is not public space, and devices like video cameras cannot be used. For individual or personal spaces, the SE should not be too smart to invade the resident's...
The paper presents the results of the “Smart People for Smart Cities!” project funded by European Structural Funds Human Resources. “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia, Romania in partnership with UTI SA Romania, UNINOVA Portugal and INFOR ELEA Italy have collaborated to bridge and enhance people's skills and competences for the development of smart city applications within the university...
Smart environment is a situation aware system for improving the quality of life. This kind of systems are extremely useful for solving or avoiding several issues. The issue we consider in this research is the care of elderly peoples living in their own homes. Usually, information needed for situation awareness is obtained from various devices such as video cameras and voice recorders. However, these...
In this paper architecture and basic principles of monitoring system for smart school laboratory is proposed. This smart school laboratory proposed previously by authors is based on technologies of smart environment and multi-agent systems employed to improve comfort, effectiveness and safety during conducting of laboratory work with any technological equipment (e.g., computers, machine tools and...
Activity Recognition is important in order to facilitate elderly residents' and their caregivers' needs. This problem has been widely investigated using different methods including probabilistic and Markovian approaches. The focus of this paper is to perform activity recognition more accurately than existing approaches using non-intrusive sensors. We represent motion sensors of smart environments...
The basic concept of smart environment is to be aware of the context information related to environmental and human behavioral changes, and to provide appropriate services accordingly. To obtain the context information, people often use video cameras, microphones, and other devices. These devices can obtain a wealth of environmental information, but could easily lead to privacy issues. Large environmental...
Ever since the assemblage of the first computer, efforts have been made to improve the way people could use machines. Recently, the usage of smart environments has become popular in order to make everyday living more comfortable and to improve the quality of living of humans. In this paper, a hand posture and gesture modeling and recognition system is introduced, which can be used as an interface...
Wireless sensors and sensor networks have an important impact in meeting the need of green computing, mainly due to two reasons: 1) the sensor and sensor network itself is green low energy consumption and few greenhouse emissions; 2) most of the proposed solutions to smart environment and green computing rely on wireless sensor and sensor network technologies, such as the smart power grids, smart...
This work describes innovative smart environments with embedded context-awareness technologies, enabling new business models and consequently the creation of new services. The context-awareness framework presented in this paper is taken from the results of an EU Framework Programme (FP) 7 Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) project. Major novelties include a business shift from traditional...
Among the challenges for acceptance and adoption of Smart environments is users' privacy concern. Since almost every operations in Smart environments are seamlessly conducted with close monitoring, human users feel are not in control of their life. To address this challenge, this article proposes to limit the use of sensors to only Bluetooth, RFID and any other sensors that capture alphanumeric data...
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...
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