A Review On Smart Home

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) are made up of tiny sensing devices; capable of sensing some changes of incident/parameters and communicating with other devices, over a specific area. Mainly used for tracking, surveillance and environmental monitoring. These devices make it possible to be used in a system such as Home Automation and Security. Our purpose is to make our Home secure from any attacks physically and to the sensor network. Securing our Home starts from the outside, setting up a perimeter around house sensing intrusion and alerting the home owner. Allowing only predetermined users to enter the home. From the inside you can monitor for fires, leak, humidity or smoke, which the system will promptly report this to the owner as well as alert the proper authorities. Making most of the home voice controlled only recognized by the owner’s voice can add another layer of security.

Sensor is not a new technology, however, it is just recently applied with devices to detect a movement and activities of the people. The movement and activities tracking are essential for both dementia and relatives. The relatives will know what dementia is doing in the definite time, and can respond to dementia’ actions instantly in case of unpredictable accident occurs. In the other hand, the patients are alerted and reminded by the sensor when they act something appropriately. For example, the movement sensor will alert when dementia is falling and automatically call to dementia’ family to inform the situation. The smart house helps dementia sufferers to continue their life comfortably, and decrease the anxiousness of the relatives for leaving dementia alone

The Gator Tech smart house at the University of Florida is a laboratory-house created to assist older adults in maximizing independence and maintaining higher quality of life. The entire house is equipped with (a) smart cameras for motion detection, image processing, and control of other in-home devices, (b) smart blinds that automatically close to block sunlight when the air conditioner is on, (c) ultrasonic location tracking transceivers that are installed on the ceiling corners of each room to detect movement, location, and orientation of the resident, (d) smart floor that uses pressure sensors embedded into each tile to detect falls and reports to emergency services, and (f) smart displays for entertainment media and information residents

An additional application of automation is called home automation. Home automation works by using advanced technology to control and do the jobs that people would normally do manually ("Home automation," 2010). The best and simplest way to install home automation is while a house is still being built. However, people who have houses already built can still have home automation installed through wireless

Dementia describes a decline in mental ability. Alzheimer disease, which damages brain cells, is the major cause of dementia. It is estimated that around 850,000 people in UK developed dementia in 2015. The risks of developing dementia will increase by the comprehensive contributions of aging, risk genes, and unhealthy lifestyles. However, the medical treatments fails to cure dementia effectively for the mechanics of how dementia is developed is too complicated to identify. Therefore, present research on dementia treatments mainly concentrates on technological devices to help people with dementia. In this report, three technological approaches (the early diagnosis in preventing people from dementia, infrared movement sensors to help taking care of people with dementia, and integrated smart house are introduced and the limitations future implications of these technologies are discussed.

Having a home automation can go a long way in presenting your home as ‘smart home’. This is because most people nowadays have a smart-phone with them. However, just like other technology products, home automation cost varies from most affordable to extremely high cost.

Based on the organization, development, clarity, and concepts in the article “Really Smart Homes” by John Patrick Pullen, this article would receive a 90%.

Even though the home of the future will bring many benefits to consumers, owning home appliances connected to the internet may pose a security risk. In an article by Adam Turner, titled “Smart technology may make your home a net target”, Turner explains the dangers of using smart home devices. How do these dangers affect smart home technology? To explain the issues, Turner relays the knowledge of AVG security adviser Michael McKinnon. Mckinnon claims that people use most of these devices to access files remotely, giving hackers the opportunity to breach them. After a hacker gains access to a home’s internal network, they can then collect passwords and financial information (Turner 1). The essence of Turner’s argument is that by using internet-connected smart home technology, hackers have an easier means of accessing sensitive information.

Today, smart electronics are playing a central role in our daily lives and they deserve an even smarter role at home.

There are key components that complete a home security system, these are the control panel, the keypad, motion detectors and sensors as

In addition, smart homes offer independence in mobility and object manipulation for those who have problems in normal movement. Home

In the article “A Context-Based Infrastructure for Smart Environments”, it represents the necessity of smart environment. It concludes that smart environment is required to provide effective services to occupants (https://smartech.gatech.edu/bitstream/handle/1853/3406/99-39.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y). Generally, it can be said that it is necessary for every organization to identify their context and determine what actions need to take to satisfy the identified context. It can be said that goal of the smart environment not only supports the activities but also enhance the abilities of occupants in performing different organizational tasks. Context is defined as information that is required to utilize a particular situation of an entity. Furthermore, it can be said that the most important problem faced by every organization is building and executing effective context-aware applications. If the organization wants to resolve such problem, they can build applications on the basis of ad-hoc manner.

To justify the idea the proposed, a series of experiments are undertaken. This consists of implementing the system into a real smart home with a single power analyser at the main electrical panel. The assistive system was tested rigorously against real life scenarios, related to morning ADL to test the accuracy and how competent the system is to assist patients in a real life context, algorithm for assistance is implemented within the system for the activity recognition every time an electrical appliance is used. The authors determined potential errors or abnormal situations to test out any inconsistent behaviour which should cause a prompt to be sent to the patient to provide the appropriate

Home security systems is no longer a luxury but a necessity in todays high crime society. Burglary is a crime New Zealanders are most likely to suffer. Our solution to this problem is a smart home security application that would allow us to effectively and efficiently notify police and homeowners discretely, as well as accurately identify the stolen items. Thus, minimizing chances of a thief escaping conviction and ultimately reduce the annual burglary rate and provider safer homes.

What is smart TV? To answer the question directly, A smart TV, sometimes referred to as connected TV, is a television set or set-top box with integrated Internet and example of technological convergence between computers and television sets and set-top boxes. Besides the traditional functions of television sets and set-top boxes provided through traditional broadcasting media, these devices can also provide Internet TV, online interactive media and home networking access and Internet-connected smart features help to get more out of television. Most new TV are now smart, with a wide range of models.