Dissertations / Theses: 'Home Automation System'

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Hellmuth, George F. "Personal computer based home automation system." Master's thesis, This resource online, 1993. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-09192009-040212/.

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Pedale, Anna. "Study and design energy-efficient home automation systems." Doctoral thesis, Università Politecnica delle Marche, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11566/243047.

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Home Automation Systems (HAS) consist of a number of appliances (e.g. washing machine, dishwasher, oven, refrigerator, boiler) and subsystem (e.g. for heating, for air conditioning, for entertaining), which are connected by a communication network. The various elements of the system share common resources (mainly electricity, but also water and gas) to accomplish their specific tasks, according to the user’s requirements. Since resources are limited, in the sense that their consumption cannot exceed fixed thresholds (related to costs, contract’s rules or provider’s directives), competition between the elements of the system generates internal conflicts. The aim of this thesis is to describe an approach to modeling and study of home automation systems, based on the MAS theory, which allows to introduce a rigorous formalization and to define practical tools for the analysis of performances. The models consist of a switched dynamics governed by a Petri net. They are two interconnected components, one of which is basically a switched system with time-driven dynamics and the other is an event-driven dynamical system, which influence each other. The first component (called BEHAVIOR) models the functional behavior of the appliance, while the second component (called PLUG) models its interaction with the supply system of each resource (e.g. electricity, gas, water) and the environment. To optimize the functioning of the modern house we need a comprehensive study of the entire structure seen as a distributed control system. It requires a study of real load profile that is the pattern of electricity usage of a device in the home and an analysis on the skills and properties that every device owns. The entire environment is composed by cognitive and responsive agents, able to communicate its request and to respond to user requests. This communication layer is composed by a data dashboard and a web service able to share and control user behavior in order to satisfy his desire.
Un insieme di elettrodomestici (ad esempio lavatrice, lavastoviglie, forno, frigorifero, caldaia) e sottosistemi (ad esempio per il riscaldamento, per aria condizionata), che sono collegati da una rete di comunicazione, costituiscono un Home Automation Systems (HAS). Ogni sistema appartenente a tale ambiente condivide una risorsa comune (energia elettrica, ma anche acqua e gas) per raggiungere i propri compiti, in base alle esigenze dell'utente. Dal momento che le risorse sono limitate, nel senso che il loro consumo non può superare dei limiti fissati (legati ai costi, le regole del contratto o direttive del fornitore), la concorrenza tra gli elementi del sistema genera conflitti interni. Lo scopo di questa tesi è quello di descrivere un approccio alla modellazione e studio di sistemi domotici, basato sulla teoria MAS, che consente di introdurre una formalizzazione rigorosa e definire strumenti pratici per l'analisi delle prestazioni del sistema. Il comportamento di tali modelli è caratterizzato dalle reti di Petri. Essi si compongono di due dinamiche, una guidata dal tempo e l’altra dagli eventi. Il primo componente (chiamato BEHAVIOR) modella il comportamento funzionale dell'elettrodomestico, mentre il secondo componente (chiamato PLUG) modella l’interazione con la risorsa condivisa. Per ottimizzare il funzionamento della casa occorre un ampio studio dell'intero ambiente e del profilo di carico reale di ciascun elettrodomestico come suo modello di consumo di energia elettrica. Inoltre è richiesta un'analisi sulle competenze e proprietà che ogni dispositivo possiede, caratterizzandoli come agenti cognitivi e reattivi, in grado di comunicare la propria richiesta e di rispondere alle esigenze degli utenti. Tale comunicazione è realizzata per mezzo di una lavagna condivisa di informazioni e un web service in grado di condividere e controllare il comportamento dei singoli dispositivi domotici per soddisfare il desiderio dell’ utente.

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Cheng, Yuxin. "Home Automation System Design And Implementation Based On 6LoWPAN." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för informations- och kommunikationsteknik (ICT), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-174829.

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Home automation systems are collections of smart devices that enable various functions within a house or building, such as light and plug control, energy monitoring, temperature metering, air conditioning and heating, etc. Usually, these devices are smart sensors, that are implemented with low power communication protocol like ZigBee and 6LoWPAN and only can be controlled from an Internet gateway. Nowadays, there are lots of home automation products on the market for customers. User can use application on smart phone to control the products they bought. The control command can go through a cloud-based server and be directed to the corresponding gateway, and finally reach to the sensor devices, which is referred to as "cloud-based mode" system. However, this single mode is not effcient under some circumstances where the Internet is not enabled or allowed. In this thesis work, a hybrid system architecture is proposed, implemented and evaluated, which include both stand-only and cloud-based mode. It offers a quick connection when user's smart phone and the sensor gateway are in the same private network. The proposed doublemode system architecture fits user's need and provides high reliability.
Hemautomationssystem är smarta enheter som möjliggör olika funktioner i ett hus eller en byggnad, såsom kontroll av ljus och uttag, energiövervakning, temperaturm ätning, luftkonditionering och uppvärmning, etc. Dessa enheter är vanligtvis smarta sensorer, implementerade med lågeffekt kommunikationsprotokoll som ZigBee och 6LoWPAN som endast kan styras via en Internet-gateway. Numera finns det era hemautomationprodukter på marknaden. Användaren kan med sin smarta telefon styra sina produkter. Kommandot går via en molnbaserad server och vidarebefordras till motsvarande gateway, kommandot når slutligen till sensoranordningarna, även kallat "molnbaserat läge". Detta "molnbaserade läge" är inte effektiv under vissa omständigheter där internetanslutning ej är tillänglig. I detta avhandlingsarbete föreslås, genomförs och utvärderas en hybrid systemarkitektur som inkluderar både stand-only och molnbaserade läget. Detta erbjuder en snabb anslutning när användarens smartphone och sensor gateway är pår samma privata nätverk. Den föreslagna systemarkitekturen passar användarens behov och ger hög tillförlitlighe

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Tom, Mary. "An initial technology roadmap for home automation : home and personal life management." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2010. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/35719/1/Mary_Tom_Thesis.pdf.

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Home Automation (HA) has emerged as a prominent ¯eld for researchers and in- vestors confronting the challenge of penetrating the average home user market with products and services emerging from technology based vision. In spite of many technology contri- butions, there is a latent demand for a®ordable and pragmatic assistive technologies for pro-active handling of complex lifestyle related problems faced by home users. This study has pioneered to develop an Initial Technology Roadmap for HA (ITRHA) that formulates a need based vision of 10-15 years, identifying market, product and technology investment opportunities, focusing on those aspects of HA contributing to e±cient management of home and personal life. The concept of Family Life Cycle is developed to understand the temporal needs of family. In order to formally describe a coherent set of family processes, their relationships, and interaction with external elements, a reference model named Fam- ily System is established that identi¯es External Entities, 7 major Family Processes, and 7 subsystems-Finance, Meals, Health, Education, Career, Housing, and Socialisation. Anal- ysis of these subsystems reveals Soft, Hard and Hybrid processes. Rectifying the lack of formal methods for eliciting future user requirements and reassessing evolving market needs, this study has developed a novel method called Requirement Elicitation of Future Users by Systems Scenario (REFUSS), integrating process modelling, and scenario technique within the framework of roadmapping. The REFUSS is used to systematically derive process au- tomation needs relating the process knowledge to future user characteristics identi¯ed from scenarios created to visualise di®erent futures with richly detailed information on lifestyle trends thus enabling learning about the future requirements. Revealing an addressable market size estimate of billions of dollars per annum this research has developed innovative ideas on software based products including Document Management Systems facilitating automated collection, easy retrieval of all documents, In- formation Management System automating information services and Ubiquitous Intelligent System empowering the highly mobile home users with ambient intelligence. Other product ideas include robotic devices of versatile Kitchen Hand and Cleaner Arm that can be time saving. Materialisation of these products require technology investment initiating further research in areas of data extraction, and information integration as well as manipulation and perception, sensor actuator system, tactile sensing, odour detection, and robotic controller. This study recommends new policies on electronic data delivery from service providers as well as new standards on XML based document structure and format.

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Warriner, Peter David. "NUDAN : a proposal for a universal domestic area networking system." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.313546.

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Maternaghan, Claire. "A system for controlling, monitoring and programming the home." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/9539.

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As technology becomes ever more pervasive, the challenges of home automation are increasingly apparent. Seamless home control, home monitoring and home programming by the end user have yet to enter the mainstream. This could be attributed to the challenge of developing a fully autonomous and extensible home system that can support devices and technologies of differing protocols and functionalities. In order to offer programming facilities to the user, the underlying rule system must be fully independent, allowing support for current and future devices. Additional challenges arise from the need to detect and handle conflicts that may arise among user rules and yield undesirable results. Non-technical individuals typically struggle when faced with a programming task. It is therefore vital to encourage and ease the process of programming the home. This thesis presents Homer, a home system that has been developed to support three key features of a home system: control, monitoring and programming. Homer supports any third-party hardware or software service that can expose its functionality through Java and conform to the Homer interface. Stand-alone end user interfaces can be written by developers to offer any of Homer's functionality. Where policies (i.e. rules) for the home are concerned, Homer offers a fully independent policy system. The thesis presents a custom policy language, Homeric, that has been designed specifically for writing home rules. The Homer policy system detects overlaps and conflicts among rules using constraint satisfaction and the effect on environment variables. The thesis also introduces the notion of perspectives to ease user interactivity. These have been integrated into Homer to accommodate the range of ways in which a user may think about different aspects and features of their home. These perspectives include location, device type, time and people-oriented points of view. Design guidelines are also discussed to aid end user programming of the home. The work presented in this thesis demonstrates a system that supports control, monitoring and programming of the home. Developers can quickly and easily add functionality to the home through components. Conflicts can be detected amongst rules within the home. Finally, design guidelines and a prototype interface have been developed to allow both technically minded and non-technical people to program their home.

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Schleich, Christopher W. "Designing a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) System for the Home Automation Industry." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10263119.

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In recent years, businesses have begun storing their data in the Cloud due to an increased demand for having business information accessible at remote locations. A large portion of the technology used to store company data in the Cloud is generic software with features applicable to most types of industries. However, the home automation industry does not fit this mold.

Home automation companies’ employees spend most of their time working away from the office. As such, they need to have business information - such as contacts, tasks, work orders, purchase and change orders, accessible from laptops, phones, and tablets. Most companies in the industry use D-Tools System Integrator, a Windows-based application used to generate contracts and sell home automation technologies to clients. However, not only does D- Tools System Integrator fail to provide the tools needed to manage daily operations once a contract is signed, it also fails to provide compatibility with non-Windows computers. Thankfully there is a newly developed system to help fix these shortcomings.

Automation Pro is an online Customer Relationship Management (CRM) System designed by Christopher Schleich, tailored specifically for the home automation industry. Automation Pro is built in ASP.NET and MVC frameworks using Microsoft Visual Studio. The goal of the system is to provide all of the tools that D-Tools System Integrator fails to deliver, and develop a user interface that will automatically resize based on the device accessing the system. The design and implementation of Automation Pro is the focus of this project.

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Jose, Arun Cyril. "Intelligent home automation security system based on novel logical sensing and behaviour prediction." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/65012.

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The thesis, Intelligent Home Automation Security System Based on Novel Logical Sensing and Behavior Prediction, was designed to enhance authentication, authorization and security in smart home devices and services. The work proposes a three prong defensive strategy each of which are analyzed and evaluated separately to drastically improve security. The Device Fingerprinting techniques proposed, not only improves the existing approaches but also identifies the physical device accessing the home cybernetic and mechatronic systems using device specific and browser specific parameters. The Logical Sensing process analyses home inhabitant actions from a logical stand point and develops sophisticated and novel sensing techniques to identify intrusion attempts to a home’s physical and cyber space. Novel Behavior prediction methodology utilizes Bayesian networks to learn normal user behavior which is later compared to distinguish and identify suspicious user behaviors in the home in a timely manner. The logical sensing, behavior prediction and device fingerprinting techniques proposed were successfully tested, evaluated and verified in an actual home cyber physical system. The algorithms and techniques proposed in the thesis can be easily modified and adapted into many practical applications in Industrial Internet of Things, Industry 4.0 and cyber-physical systems.
Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2017.
Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering
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Ruwaida, Bassam, and Toni Minkkinen. "Home Automation System : A cheap and open-source alternative to control household appliances." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för informations- och kommunikationsteknik (ICT), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-137741.

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This project revolves around creating a home automation system prototype with the main focus being the ability to lock/unlock a door through the internet. The system consists of a central device, a server and an Android application.The central device is a microprocessor, in this case, a Raspberry Pi that connects to the Internet and receives an order to control a motor which in turn turns the lock with the help of gears. The ability to rotate the motor in both directions is achieved by the use of an H-bridge. The server manages users and devices, and handles the communication between the application and the central device. Users and devices are stored in a database on the server. The application is a frontend which presents the user with a list of devices to interact with.The main prototype where the Raspberry Pi acted as a central device was abandoned due to time and resource constraints. It was instead used to control the motor directly. This brought up some problems concerning powering the device using batteries. The software of the prototype is mostly working but due to the same time limitations not all planned features could be implemented.

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Lang, Ming-Shuang. "Remote Residential Control System." Thesis, KTH, Mikroelektronik och Informationsteknik, IMIT, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-93044.

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A remote residential control system enables home users to remotely manage devices at their homes. These devices may include energy management, security surveillance, household appliances, consumer electronics, etc. This system involves technologies in home automation, home networking, and interfacing a home network with external networks. However, lacking a single standard poses a big challenge to the design of such a system. This thesis proposed three methods of turning an IP Set-Top Box into a remote residential control platform. Additionally, future trends are discussed. Various technologies in the fields mentioned above are also examined.
Ett system för fjärrstyrning av intelligenta hem (remote residential control system) är ett system som möjliggör för hemanvändare att på distans övervaka och styra utrustning i hemmet. Denna utrustning kan vara energiövervakning, säkerhetsutrustning, hushållsapparater, konsumentelektronik, etc. Det saknas dock en gemensam standard, vilket gör det till en stor utmaning att konstruera ett sådant system. I detta examensarbete föreslås tre sätt att göra en set-top box till en plattform för fjärrstyrning av intelligenta hem. Framtida trender diskuteras också. Olika tekniker inom nämnda områden undersöks[.]

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Horyachyy, Oleh. "Comparison of Wireless Communication Technologies used in a Smart Home : Analysis of wireless sensor node based on Arduino in home automation scenario." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för datalogi och datorsystemteknik, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-14845.

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Context. Internet of Things (IoT) is an extension of the Internet, which now includes physical objects of the real world. The main purpose of Internet of Things is to increase a quality of people’s daily life. A smart home is one of the promising areas in the Internet of Things which increases rapidly. It allows users to control their home devices anytime from any location in the world using Internet connectivity and automate their work based on the physical environment conditions and user preferences. The main issues in deploying the architecture of IoT are the security of the communication between constrained low-power devices in the home network and device performance. Battery lifetime is a key QoS parameter of a battery-powered IoT device which limits the level of security and affects the performance of the communication. These issues have been deepened with the spread of cheap and easy to use microcontrollers which are used by electronic enthusiasts to build their own home automation projects. Objectives. In this study, we investigated wireless communication technologies used in low-power and low-bandwidth home area networks to determine which of them are most suitable for smart home applications. We also investigated the correlation between security, power consumption of constrained IoT device, and performance of wireless communication based on a model of a home automation system with a sensor node. Sensor node was implemented using Arduino Nano microcontroller and RF 433 MHz wireless communication module. Methods. To achieve the stated objectives of this research following methods were chosen: literature review to define common applications and communication technologies used in a smart home scenario and their requirements, comparison of wireless communication technologies in smart home, study of Arduino microcontroller technology, design and simulation of a part of home automation project based on Arduino, experimental measurements of execution time and power consumption of Arduino microcontroller with RF 433 MHz wireless module when transmitting data with different levels of security, and analysis of experimental results. Results. In this research, we presented a detailed comparison of ZigBee, WiFi, Bluetooth, Z-Wave, and ANT communication technologies used in a smart home in terms of the main characteristics. Furthermore, we considered performance, power consumption, and security. A model of a home automation system with a sensor node based on Arduino Nano was described with sleep management and performance evaluation. The results show that the battery lifetime of Arduino in a battery-powered sensor node scenario is determined by the communication speed, sleep management, and affected by encryption. Conclusions. The advanced communication strategy can be used to minimize the power consumption of the device and increase the efficiency of the communication. In that case, our security measures will reduce the productivity and lifetime of the sensor node not significantly. It’s also possible to use symmetric encryption with smaller block size.

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Baxter, Michael Scott. "An Open Architecture for Versatile Machine and Actuator Control." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2004. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/793.

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Automatic control technology increases usability, reliability and productivity in manufacturing, transportation, and climate control. There are many additional areas of modern life that could benefit through automatic control; however, current automation components are too expensive or aren't sufficiently flexible. For example, the cost of current commercial motion control components precludes their use in an average home. This thesis describes an automatic control methodology that is low cost and is flexible enough for a wide variety of control applications. Typical applications could include: - Home lighting, security and appliances - Commercial building heating, ventilation and air conditioning - Industrial machine tool and process control This automation methodology eliminates several expensive and inflexible aspects of present-day industrial automation. This is accomplished by implementing application-specific control algorithms in software run on a generic computer rather than on purpose-built hardware. This computer calculates control values for each control application connected to it via real-time communication network. This technique is similar to that of a desktop PC. When using a peripheral device, such as a printer or scanner, the PC executes device driver software to calculate control values for the devices. These values are communicated to the device over a shared bus. The automation methodology described here seeks to emulate this software-based control paradigm. This methodology reduces cost and increases flexibility in two ways. First, it eliminates application-specific control hardware and replaces it with software. This reduces the cost by eliminating the need for unique, proprietary control hardware for each product or system. Second, the software approach increases flexibility. For example, one could download a new clothes washing machine cycle via the Internet. Software control provides considerable freedom in designing and implementing control systems by allowing the designer to change system functionality without having to replace or modify hardware or even be present at the location where the control system is used. This thesis describes the development of this new control methodology. To validate its performance a home automation system is implemented. This implementation included control of laundry appliances, lighting, TV and other common household devices.

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Cheng, Chih Wei. "Design and implementation of home automation control system based on Zigbee and transmission control protocol/internet protocol." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10001582.

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This project discusses the Home Automation System (HAS), which utilizes the technology of wireless sensor network (WSN). The control mechanism of these systems is based on ZigBee that works in collaboration with mobile and Internet systems. The input of these devices is quite different, which creates challenges for the creators of the system. Certain household devices are very easy to control while others have comparatively complex inputs. The system should be able to control both types of devices through a singular interface. This challenge is overcome by implementation of the wireless sensor nodes in a HAS. A highly important advantage of using ZigBee’s monitoring system is energy conservation, and reduction in power costs. Utilization of HAS leads to a decrease in consumption of water, electricity and other energy inputs, a reduction of the cost of utilities, and the improvement of security features. The paper demonstrates that Home Automation System has numerous applications beyond control of lighting, temperature and security cameras in a household. The technology opens up frontiers for numerous other applications in the area of home assistance and even in home health care.

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Karlsson, Daniel, and Alex Lindström. "Automated Learning and Decision : Making of a Smart Home System." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-234313.

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Smart homes are custom-fitted systems for users to manage their home environments. Smart homes consist of devices which has the possibility to communicate between each other. In a smart home system, the communication is used by a central control unit to manage the environment and the devices in it. Setting up a smart home today involves a lot of manual customizations to make it function as the user wishes. What smart homes lack is the possibility to learn from users behaviour and habits in order to provide a customized environment for the user autonomously. The purpose of this thesis is to examine whether environmental data can be collected and used in a small smart home system to learn about the users behaviour. To collect data and attempt this learning process, a system is set up. The system uses a central control unit for mediation between wireless electrical outlets and sensors. The sensors track motion, light, temperature as well as humidity. The devices and sensors along with user interactions in the environment make up the collected data. Through studying the collected data, the system is able to create rules. These rules are used for the system to make decisions within its environment to suit the users’ needs. The performance of the system varies depending on how the data collection is handled. Results find that collecting data in intervals as well as when an action is made from the user is important.
Smarta hem är system avsedda för att hjälpa användare styra sin hemmiljö. Ett smart hem är uppbyggt av enheter med möjlighet att kommunicera med varandra. För att kontrollera enheterna i ett smart hem, används en central styrenhet. Att få ett smart hem att vara anpassat till användare är ansträngande och tidskrävande. Smarta hemsystem saknar i stor utsträckning möjligheten att lära sig av användarens beteende. Vad ett sådant lärande skulle kunna möjliggöra är ett skräddarsytt system utan användarens involvering. Syftet med denna avhandling är att undersöka hur användardata från en hemmiljö kan användas i ett smart hemsystem för att lära sig av användarens beteende. Ett litet smart hemsystem har skapats för att studera ifall denna inlärningsmetod är applicerbar. Systemet består av sensorer, trådlösa eluttag och en central styrenhet. Den centrala styrenheten används för att kontrollera de olika enheterna i miljön. Sensordata som sparas av systemet består av rörelse, ljusstyrka, temperatur och luftfuktighet. Systemet sparar även användarens beteende i miljön. Systemet skapar regler utifrån sparad data med målet att kunna styra enheterna i miljön på ett sätt som passar användaren. Systemets agerande varierade beroende på hur data samlades in. Resultatet visar vikten av att samla in data både i intervaller och när användare tar ett beslut i miljön.

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Piši, Daniel. "Inteligentní dům pro seniory." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta elektrotechniky a komunikačních technologií, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-218814.

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Tato diplomová práce se zabývá systémem automatizace domácnosti umožňujícím ovládání domácích spotřebičů prostřednictvím běžné televize. Systém využívá standardu X10 a bezdrátové technologie ZigBee. Řídicí software staví na OS GNU/Linux a systému domácího kina MythTV. V rámci této diplomové práce byla vyvinuta aplikace zprostředkující komunikaci mezi MythTV a hardwarem. Modulární koncept postavený na dynamicky zaváděných modulech dělá tuto aplikaci snadno rozšiřitelnou a použitelnou i mimo předkládaný automatizační systém. Za účelem testování a demonstrace funkčnosti byl dále navržen bezdrátový teploměr a převodník VGA na SCART.

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Schafermeyer, Erich Reinhardt. "An IR and RF Based System for Functional Gait Analysis in a Multi-Resident Smart-Home." PDXScholar, 2017. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3502.

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Changes in the gait characteristics, such as walking speed and stride length, of a person living at home can be used to presage cognitive decline, predict fall potential, monitor long-term changes in cognitive impairment, test drug regimens, and more. This thesis presents a novel approach to gait analysis in a smart-home environment by leveraging new advances in inexpensive sensors and embedded systems to create novel solutions for in-home gait analysis. Using a simple, non-invasive hardware system consisting entirely of wall-mounted infrared and radio frequency sensor arrays, data is collected on the gait of subjects as they pass by. This data is then analyzed and sent to a clinician for further study. The system is non-invasive in that it does not use cameras and could be built into the molding of a home so that it would be nearly invisible. In a finished prototype version, the system presented in this thesis could be used to analyze the gait characteristics of one or more subjects living in a home environment while ignoring the data of visitors and other non-subject cohabitants. The ability to constantly collect data from a home environment could provide thousands of observations per year for clinical analysis. Providing such a robust data set may allow people with gait impairment to live at home longer and more safely before transitioning to a care facility, have a reduced fall risk due to better prediction, and live a healthier life in old age.

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Darwish, Molham. "Architecture et déploiement de services d'aide à la personne." Thesis, Lorient, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016LORIS411/document.

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Le vieillissement de la population européenne a encouragé la communauté à favoriser larecherche de solutions pour soutenir cette évolution. Dans ce contexte, plusieurs questions (liéesaux services de soins de santé et aux établissements de santé, coûteux, et à capacités limitées)doivent être abordées.Ainsi, plusieurs projets de recherche et des solutions industrielles ont été proposés pour remédier àces problèmes. La plupart de ces solutions sont basées sur l'utilisation des derniers développementstechniques en matière de TIC permettant ainsi de fournir des solutions qui améliorent le bien-êtredes personnes âgées et de garantir leur indépendance dans leurs propres espaces de vie. Lessolutions technologiques fournies doivent être garanties contre les défauts potentiels deséquipements qui peuvent conduire à l'échec des systèmes et avoir un impact sur les besoins etl'indépendance des utilisateurs.Dans ce travail, nous proposons une représentation du système d'automatisation de la maison, surla base des besoins qui consiste à fournir des solutions continues et viables et répondant auxattentes des utilisateurs (tout en assurant la disponibilité des services des systèmes).Dans cet objectif, nous proposons de développer un cadre de modélisation représentant lesystème reconfigurable domotique et permettant l'examen de l'approche de la tolérance depanne, sur la base de la définition de scénarios alternatifs (assurant la délivrance continue desservices). Dans ce workflow, nous décrivons les éléments structurels du système (décrits commedes services et composants) en vue de la modélisation conceptuelle. Des règles de transformationde modèle permettent de générer un modèle d'analyse et un modèle de comportement. Lemodèle d'analyse permet de prendre une décision à propos de la sélection des élémentsalternatifs pour remplacer les éléments défectueux. Ce modèle d'analyse est défini sur la base dela notion d'approche d’arbre de défaillances, qui adopte la probabilité d'échec descomposantes pour évaluer l’état global du système considéré. Le modèle de comportement estresponsable de la simulation de l'exécution des services du système pour assurer que les scénariosconduisent à la délivrance du système.Par ailleurs, nous proposons de définir une caractéristique permettant d’évaluer l'importanceempirique (vue par le concepteur) des composantes d'un système dans le cadre d’un servicedonné. Ensuite, nous proposons une nouvelle approche, fondée sur l'intégration du facteur del'importance dans l'approche d’arbre de défaillances pour étudier la criticité du composant, encas d'échec, ainsi que la continuité de service. Un cadre de validation expérimentale, basé surplusieurs objectifs de validation est finalement proposé pour conclure ce travail de recherche
The ageing of the European population encouraged the community to search for solutions tosupport this evolution. In this context, several issues (related to the expensive and limited healthcare services and health facilities capacities) need to be addressed.Thus, several projects, research and industrial solutions have been proposed to address these issues.Most of these projects and industrial developments are based on the use of the latest ICT technicaldevelopments to provide solutions that ameliorate the well-being of the targeted ageing groupand to guaranty their independence in their own living spaces. The provided technologicalsolutions need to be guaranteed against potential faults which may lead to the systems failure andimpact the users’ needs and independency.In this work, we propose a home automation system representation, based on the user’s needs toprovide continuous and viable solutions that meets the users’ expectations, and ensuring theavailability of system’s services.For this goal, we propose to develop an integrated modeling framework allowing therepresentation of the home automation reconfigurable system with the consideration of a faulttolerance approach (based on the alternative definition of scenarios of system servicesdeliverance).In the proposed workflow, we describe the system structural elements (described as services andcomponents) in the design modeling view, and, we lead model transformation rules allowinggenerating an analysis model and a behavior model. The analysis model allows making a decisionabout the alternative elements selection in order to substitute the faulty elements. The analysismodel definition is based on the notion of Fault Tree Analysis approach (adopting the probabilityof events failure in order to evaluate a given system status).The behavior model is in charge of simulating the execution of the system services ensuring, thus,that the proposed scenarios lead to system services deliverance.Moreover, we propose to define an expert based feature measuring the importance of a system’scomponent within the service context. In this framework, we propose a new approach, based onthe joint integration of the importance factor into the Fault Tree Analysis approach in order to studythe criticality of the component, in case of failure, on the service continuity.We propose an experimental validation framework, based on several validation objectives toevaluate the proposed work in this research

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Randl, Milan. "Průzkum systémové integrace v domácnostech." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-75026.

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The aim of this dissertation is to bring the complete view of the Home System Integration, including public survey based on this data. Households are generally composed of several different systems that are controlled separately and are not interconnected. The purpose of Home System Integration is to connect all electronic equipment to make household safer, more efficient and more comfortable. The public survey, forming a practical part of the thesis, brings the view of Home System Integration in the Czech Republic. It can also serve as an information source for producers, sellers, their further product development and setting sales strategies.

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Novák, Michael. "Návrh řízení a regulace tepelného systému u RD s využitím systémové instalace LOXONE." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta elektrotechniky a komunikačních technologií, 2017. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-318408.

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The diploma thesis deals with the division of the system installation and gives an overview of electrical appliances and heating system. It focuses on the Loxone system installation. The main part is the project documentation of wiring, programming the control of a family house and regulation of the solar thermal system for heating water and the heating system control. It also includes a simple economic evaluation of the proposed solar system.

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Morganti, Gianluca. "User-friendly strategies in home automation systems." Doctoral thesis, Università Politecnica delle Marche, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11566/242336.

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Hamoui, Mohamad Fady. "Un système multi-agents à base de composants pour l’adaptation autonomique au contexte – Application à la domotique." Thesis, Montpellier 2, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010MON20088/document.

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Les environnements domotiques sont des environnements ubiquitaires dans lesquels des équipements domestiques, disséminés dans une habitation, fournissent des services utilisables à distance au travers d'un réseau. Des systèmes domotiques sont proposés pour permettre aux utilisateurs de contrôler les équipements en fonction de leurs besoins.Idéalement, ces systèmes orchestrent l'exécution des services fournis par les équipements pour réaliser des services complexes. Mieux encore, ces systèmes doivent s'adapter à la variété des environnements en termes d'équipements et des besoins des utilisateurs. Ils doivent également pouvoir s'adapter dynamiquement, si possible de manière autonome, au changement de leur contexte d'exécution (apparition ou disparition d'un équipement, évolution des besoins).Dans cette thèse, nous apportons une réponse à cette problématique avec SAASHA, un système domotique multi-agents à base de composants. La combinaison de ses deux paradigmes permet de gérer l'adaptation à trois niveaux : présentation (interfaces utilisateur),organisation (architecture du système) et comportement (architecture interne des agents).Les agents perçoivent le contexte et ses changements. Les utilisateurs se voient proposer une vue dynamique du contexte leur permettant de définir des scénarios personnalisés sous forme de règles. Les agents se répartissent les rôles pour réaliser les scénarios. Ils modifient dynamiquement leur architecture interne grâce à la génération, au déploiement et à l'assemblage de composants pour se doter de nouveaux comportements de contrôle des équipements et des scénarios. Les agents collaborent ainsi pour exécuter les scénarios. En cas de changement, ces trois niveaux d'adaptation sont mis en oeuvre de manière dynamique et autonome pour maintenir la continuité de service. Un prototype de SAASHA, basé sur les standards industriels UPnP et OSGi, a été développé pour évaluer la faisabilité de notre proposition
Home automation environments are ubiquitous environments where domestic devices, scattered throughout a home, provide services that can be used remotely over a network. Home automation systems are proposed to enable the users of controlling the devices according to their needs. Ideally, these systems orchestrate the execution of the services provided by the devices to achieve complex services. Even more, these systems must adapt to the variety of environments in terms of devices and users needs. They must also be able to adapt dynamically, if possible in an autonomous manner, to the changes of their execution context (appearance or disappearance of a device, changing needs).In this thesis, we provide an answer to this problematic with SAASHA, a multi-agent home automation system based on components. The combination of these two paradigms enables managing the adaptation on three levels: presentation (user interface), organization (system architecture) and behavior (internal architecture of agents). The agents perceive their context and its changes. The Users are offered a dynamic view of the context allowing them to define custom scenarios as rules. The agents divide the roles among them to realize the scenarios. They modify dynamically their internal architecture throughout the generation, deployment and assembly of components to adopt new device control behaviors and scenarios. The agents collaborate to execute the scenarios. In case of a change, these three levels of adaptation are updated dynamically and autonomously to maintain the service continuity. A SAASHA prototype, based on UPnP and OSGi industry standards, has been developed to assess the feasibility of our proposal

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Möllers, Frederik [Verfasser]. "On privacy in home automation systems / Frederik Möllers." Saarbrücken : Saarländische Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek, 2021. http://d-nb.info/1241117365/34.

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Baghyari, Roza, and Carolina Nykvist. "Händelsekonstruktion genom säkrande och analys av data från ett hemautomationssystem." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Datorteknik, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-157619.

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I detta examensarbete har tidsstämplar extraherats ur ett forensiskt perspektiv från ett hemautomationssystem med styrenheten Homey från Athom. Först konstruerades ett fiktivt händelsescenario gällande ett inbrott i en lägenhet med ett hemautomationssystem. Hemautomationssystemet bestod av flera perifera enheter som använde olika trådlösa nätverksprotokoll. Enheterna triggades under händelsescenariot. Därefter testades olika metoder för att få ut data i form av tidsstämplar. De metoder som testades var rest-API, UART och chip-off på flashminnet medan JTAG inte hanns med på grund av tidsbrist. Den metod som gav bäst resultat var rest-API:t som möjliggjorde extrahering av alla tidsstämplar samt information om alla enheter. I flashminnet hittades alla tidsstämplar, men det var inte möjligt att koppla ihop dessa tidsstämplar med en specifik enhet utan att använda information från rest-API:t. Trots att rest-API:t gav bäst resultat så var det den metod som krävde en mängd förutsättningar i form av bland annat inloggningsuppgifter eller en rootad mobil. Med hjälp av de extraherade tidsstämplarna rekonstruerades sedan händelsescenariot för inbrottet.
The purpose of this bachelor thesis was to extract timestamps from a home automation system with a control unit named Homey in a forensic perspective. The first step was to create a course of event regarding a burglar breaking into an apartment with home automation. The home automation system consisted of some peripheral units using different types of wireless network protocols. All these units were triggered during the break in. Thereafter different types of methods were tested in an attempt to extract the timestamps for each unit. These methods included rest-API, UART and chip-off on a flash memory. The method using JTAG were not tested due to lack of time. Rest-API was the method that provided most information about the units and time stamps. The flash memory also contained every timestamp, however it did not provide any information about which timestamp belonged to which unit. Even though the rest-API was the best method to extract data, it was also the method with most requirements such as credentials or a rooted smartphone. With the extracted timestamps it was possible to reconstruct the course of events of the break-in.

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Park, Cheol-Soo. "Occupant responsive optimal control of smart façade systems." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/9450.

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Řehulka, Marek. "Aplikace pro ovládání dohledového systému v obytných vozech." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta informačních technologií, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-264933.

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This Master's thesis deals with the development of a mobile application for a control of the supervisory system in caravans and motorhomes. The thesis presents the currently available principles and research of the existing solutions. This custom solution includes an Android application and a desktop application of the central unit simulator of the supervisory system. The simulator is based on the Node.js and node-webkit technologies. The simulator communicates with the devices available via RF Transciever and it simulates other devices. The mobile application communicates with the simulator via Bluetooth Low Energy and GSM. Major part of the implementation description is devoted to the Bluetooth Low Energy technology and to issues, which are associated with it. The resulting solution puts emphasis on the usability of the user interface and the ability to supervise a wide range of connected devices. The system also implements custom logic alerts for tracked events. The thesis concludes with evaluation of the resulting system and outlining the future development options.

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Mani, GaneshKumar. "Heterogeneous Residential Gateway Design Using OSGi : With multi-user and multi-service capabilities." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för informations- och kommunikationsteknik (ICT), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-208327.

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As a result of developments, domestic usage of smart appliances by homeowners is increasing drastically. Clustering these appliances together and making them function as an efficient system defines a new place to live or new way of living called a “smart home”. While a smart home provides comfort to homeowners, realizing a smart home involves many technical and business oriented hurdles to be crossed. The primary goal of this thesis work is to design and evaluate the design of a residential gateway. This gateway should be designed as a standardized, secure, open source, hardware independent, and interoperable Residential Gateway. A service-oriented architecture is proposed using the OSGi framework to design the residential gateway and its individual components. These components include an access control component for homeowner authorization, a resource management component for managing connected devices, an automation component to realize an automation service, and finally a context component to provide context aware services to the homeowner. The final design proposed tries to solve the issues faced by some automation systems that are available in market. The evaluation of the design includes whether the design satisfies the basic requirements for a home gateway. This is followed by a comparison with existing systems with an emphasis on the improved features. The components proposed in the design could be used to construct a residential gateway that supports multiple services and multiple users. The proposed design will be taken into consideration during the design of Acreo’s home automation system.
Som en följd av utvecklingen inom vetenskap och teknik så har användningen av smarta lösningar i hushållen ökat drastiskt. Att samla dessa apparater och få dem att fungera tillsammans som ett effektivt system, skapar ett nytt hem och ett nytt sätt att leva: ett smart hem. Å ena sidan så ger smartare lösningar ett bekvämare boende, men å andra sidan innebär det också många tekniska och affärsinriktade hinder att ta sig över. Det primära målet med denna avhandling är att utforma en bostadsgateway som är att utforma en standardiserad, säker, open source, maskinvaruoberoende, interoperabel Residential Gateway. En serviceorienterad arkitektur föreslås med hjälp av OSGi-ramverket för utformning av bostadsgateway-komponenter. Komponenterna innefattar behörighetskontroll för husägare för tillgångskontroll, resurshanteringskomponenter för hantering av anslutna enheter, automationskomponent för att inkludera automationstjänst och slutligen kontextkomponent för att tillhandahålla kontextbevakad tjänster till husägaren. Den slutliga designen som föreslås försöker lösa de problem som vissa automationssystem som finns på marknaden står inför. Utvärderingen av konstruktionen med grundläggande krav för att bygga hemgateways och med befintliga system ger information om de improviserade funktionerna. De komponenter som föreslås i konstruktionen kan användas för att bygga en bostadsgateway som stöder flera tjänster och flera användare. Den föreslagna konstruktionen kommer att beaktas vid utformningen av Acreos hemautomatiseringssystem.

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Oyekunle, Abiola Taiwo. "Wireless Short Range Communication Technologies for Home Automation." Thesis, Halmstad University, Halmstad Embedded and Intelligent Systems Research (EIS), 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-4017.

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A modern home contains varieties of electronic equipment and systems like: TV, Hi-fi equipment, central heating systems, fire alarm systems, security alarm systems, lighting systems etc. Enabling these devices to communicate is the first step towards the long-predicted smart home, but this requires communication standards to follow. It can be anticipated that the technology must be wireless in order for such network to be feasible. Large set of standards are present for as well wired as wireless communication in between such devices, but today no standard communication interface available.

The goal of this project is to survey available standards for short-range wireless communication, and to evaluate and compare their capabilities to become a general standard for home automation. The evaluation must take such aspects as security, range, network architecture and the heterogeneous set of devices into consideration. Furthermore, this thesis proposes how to interconnect the home network to the external network for remote supervision and control.

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Filho, Geraldo Pereira Rocha. "Soluções de tomadas de decisões inteligentes para infraestruturas residenciais." Universidade de São Paulo, 2018. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/55/55134/tde-18102018-104924/.

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Nos últimos anos, um dos principais desafios globais está relacionado com a eficiência energética, sendo o desperdício de energia um dos fatores a ser destacado. Tal desperdício pode ser superado com o uso do Sistema de Automação Residencial (SAR). Vale frisar que os SARs são fortemente dependentes da sua infraestrutura interna, visto que esta é a base de uma casa inteligente. A Rede de Sensores e Atuadores sem Fio (RSASF) é uma solução promissora e de fácil implantação para ser utilizada como infraestrutura em um SAR. Entretanto, o uso das RSASFs como infraestrutura para monitorar e atuar (isto é, processo de tomada de decisão) no contexto de um SAR traz um novo problema. Tal problema remete não apenas a falta de um método para realizar a decisão dentro do próprio nó da RSASF, mas também a ausência em investigar um trade-off entre a precisão nas tomadas de decisões e o consumo de energia dos nós da rede. Além disso, a falta de uma infraestrutura distribuída, com baixo overhead e que reduza a latência do serviço são algumas das novas problemáticas para serem exploradas. Com isso, tem-se como desafio embarcar uma maior inteligência em dispositivos com recursos escassos, característica presente em uma RSASF. Para superar tais limitações, esta tese apresenta duas soluções de decisões inteligentes para uma infraestrutura residencial, nomeadas como ResiDI e ImPeRIum. O ResiDI é baseado em uma rede neural para atuar no processo de tomada de decisão dentro da RSASF, bem como em um mecanismo de correlação temporal para maximizar a eficiência energética da infraestrutura de comunicação. Já o ImPeRIum é baseado em um conjunto heterogêneo de dispositivos inteligentes para formar um ambiente computacional de fog, o qual gerencia as aplicações da residência por meio de uma rede neural. As soluções foram avaliadas extensivamente em diferentes cenários e comparadas com um trabalho da literatura. Os resultados reais e simulados, avaliados mediante uma análise estatística paramétrica e não-paramétrica, mostrou atingir o objetivo desta tese, sendo quatro deles notáveis: (i) aumento da precisão nas tomadas de decisões; (ii) redução no consumo de energia dos nós da rede; (iii) redução no tempo de resposta da atuação com baixa sobrecarrega; e (iv) eficiência na disseminação das informações.
In recent years, energy efficiency has become a major global challenge, and energy waste is a factor that needs to be highlighted. Such waste can be overcome with the use of Home Automation System (HAS). It should be stressed that the HASs are strongly dependent on its internal network, since this is the basis of a smart home. Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks (WSANs) provide a modern and ubiquitous infrastructure for a smart home. However, the use of WSANs to monitor and act (i.e. decision-making process) as a control infrastructure within the context of HAS poses a new problem. Such problem refers not only to the lack of a method to execute the decision-making process within the WSAN, but also to the lack of investigating a trade-off between the decision-making accuracy and the extension of the WSAN nodes life-time. In addition, the lack of a distributed infrastructure, with low overhead in processing and that reduces service latency are some of the new problems to be addressed in the literature. With this, one has as a challenge to embark on greater intelligence in devices with scarce resources, a feature present in a WSAN. To overcome such limitations, this thesis presents two intelligent decision-making solutions for residential infrastructures, named ResiDI and ImPeRIum. ResiDI was developed based on a neural network to act in the decision-making process within the network, as well as a temporal correlation mechanism to maximize the energy consumption in the networks nodes. ImPeRIum was based on a heterogeneous set of smart objects to form a fog computational environment, which manages the applications of the residence through a neural network. The solutions were evaluated extensively in different scenarios and compared with an approach in the literature. The real and simulated results, evaluated through parametric and non-parametric tests, show that solutions make four key contributions: (i) increased decisionmaking; (ii) reduction in node energy consumption; (iii) reduction in action response time with low overload; and (iv) efficiency in the transmission of information.

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Alexander, Gregory Lynn. "Human factors, automation, and alerting mechanisms in nursing home electronic health records." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/4128.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2005.
The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Vita. "July 2005." Includes bibliographical references.

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Gill, Khusvinder. "Enhancing the security of wireless sensor network based home automation systems." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2009. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/5951.

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Home automation systems (HASs)seek to improve the quality of life for individuals through the automation of household devices. Recently, there has been a trend, in academia and industry, to research and develop low-cost Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) based HASs (Varchola et al. 2007). WSNs are designed to achieve a low-cost wireless networking solution, through the incorporation of limited processing, memory, and power resources. Consequently, providing secure and reliable remote access for resource limited WSNs, such as WSN based HASs, poses a significant challenge (Perrig et al. 2004). This thesis introduces the development of a hybrid communications approach to increase the resistance of WSN based HASs to remote DoS flooding attacks targeted against a third party. The approach is benchmarked against the dominant GHS remote access approach for WSN based HASs (Bergstrom et al. 2001), on a WSN based HAS test-bed, and shown to provide a minimum of a 58.28%, on average 59.85%, and a maximum of 61.45% increase in remote service availability during a DoS attack. Additionally, a virtual home incorporating a cryptographic based DoS detection algorithm, is developed to increase resistance to remote DoS flooding attacks targeted directly at WSN based HASs. The approach is benchmarked against D-WARD (Mirkovic 2003), the most effective DoS defence identified from the research, and shown to provide a minimum 84.70%, an average 91.13% and a maximum 95.6% reduction in packets loss on a WSN based HAS during a DoS flooding attack. Moreover, the approach is extended with the integration of a virtual home, hybrid communication approach, and a distributed denial of defence server to increase resistance to remote DoS attacks targeting the home gateway. The approach is again benchmarked against the D-WARD defence and shown to decrease the connection latency experienced by remote users by a minimum of 90.14%, an average 90.90%, and a maximum 91.88%.

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Lindstål, Tim, and Daniel Marklund. "Application of LabVIEW and myRIO to voice controlled home automation." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Signaler och System, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-380866.

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The aim of this project is to use NI myRIO and LabVIEW for voice controlled home automation. The NI myRIO is an embedded device which has a Xilinx FPGA and a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9processor as well as analog input/output and digital input/output, and is programmed with theLabVIEW, a graphical programming language. The voice control is implemented in two differentsystems. The first system is based on an Amazon Echo Dot for voice recognition, which is acommercial smart speaker developed by Amazon Lab126. The Echo Dot devices are connectedvia the Internet to the voice-controlled intelligent personal assistant service known as Alexa(developed by Amazon), which is capable of voice interaction, music playback, and controllingsmart devices for home automation. This system in the present thesis project is more focusingon myRIO used for the wireless control of smart home devices, where smart lamps, sensors,speakers and a LCD-display was implemented. The other system is more focusing on myRIO for speech recognition and was built on myRIOwith a microphone connected. The speech recognition was implemented using mel frequencycepstral coefficients and dynamic time warping. A few commands could be recognized, includinga wake word ”Bosse” as well as other four commands for controlling the colors of a smart lamp. The thesis project is shown to be successful, having demonstrated that the implementation ofhome automation using the NI myRIO with two voice-controlled systems can correctly controlhome devices such as smart lamps, sensors, speakers and a LCD-display.

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Anderzén, Anton, and Markus Winroth. "Automating rule creation in a Smart Home prototype with Learning Classifier System." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-234926.

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The name ”smart homes” gives a promise of intelligent behavior. Today automation of the home environment is a manual task, with the creation of rules controlling devices relying on the user. For smart homes this tedious manual task can be automated. The purpose of this thesis is development of a prototype that will help users in smart homes create rules. The rules should be automatically created by the use of a machine learning solution. A learning classifier system algorithm is found as a suitable machine learning solution. A learning classifier system is used to find and create rules from sensor data. In the prototype a Raspberry Pi is used to collect the data. This data is processedby the learning classifier system, generating a set of rules. These rules predict actions for controlling a smart lighting system. The rules are continuously updated with new sensory information from the environment constantly reevaluating the previous found rules. The learning classifier system prototype solves the problem of how rules can be generated automatically by the use of machine learning.
Uttrycket ”smarta hem” utlovar ett intelligent beteende. Idag är automatiseringen av hemmiljön en manuell uppgift, där användaren formulerar regler som styr systemet. I smarta hem kan denna uppgift bli automatiserad. Syftet med denna kandidatuppsats är att utveckla en prototyp som ska hjälpa användare i smarta hem att skapa regler. Reglerna ska skapas automatiskt med hjälp av en maskininlärningslösning. Ett självlärande klassificeringssystem bedöms uppfylla den kravställning som görs. Det självlärande klassificeringssystemet används för att skapa regler från sensordata. I prototypen används en Raspberry Pi för att samla in data. Insamlad data behandlas av det självlärande klassificeringssystem som genererar en uppsättning regler. Dessa regler används för att kontrollera ett smart ljussystem. Reglerna uppdateras kontinuerligt med ny sensorinformation från omgivningen och utvärderar de tidigare funna reglerna. Den självlärande klassificeringssystemprototypen löser problemet om hur regler kan skapas automatiskt med hjälp av maskininlärning.

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Veerapuneni, Satish Kumar. "Benchmarking smart homes using a humanoid robot approach." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2004. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0006467.

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Johansson, Oscar, and Gustav Andersson. "Smart Greenhouse : A microcontroller based architecture for autonomous and remote control." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för informationsteknologi, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-42284.

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Expensive and complex automated systems for greenhouses are frequently utilized in the horticulture industry. In parallel, smart systems for home automation has recently seen a rapid increase in popularity. This project aims to combine the climate optimization capabilities of industrial systems with the convenience of home automation systems. More specifically, this project is focused on the design and implementation of electrical and mechanical requirements of a smart greenhouse system. This involved the selection of hardware components, such as sensors, actuators and controllers. It also involved the interconnection between these components and the development of measurement and control systems to autonomously manage the greenhouse. The system is based on a WiFi-connected microcontroller. Parameters monitored include; temperature, humidity and wind-speed. Irrigation is controlled by a solenoid valve and can be scheduled to desired intervals. Ventilation and temperature optimization is done by controlling the roof-hatch with a linear actuator and control of a heater. The results demonstrate a accurate and reliable system with low power consumption. The resulting prototype can be installed in new and existing greenhouses. Functionalities can be remotely controlled and monitored by the convenience of an android application. The total cost of the components used was around 4 500 SEK. Further development could be done to enable seamless scalability with additional components and functionalities. Climate optimization by incorporation of weather forecast as a parameter could be implemented to further reduce energy consumption.
Dyra och komplexa automatiserade växthussystem är vanligt förekommande inom industrin för hortikultur. Parallellt har populariteten för "Smart Home" system för hemautomatisering radikalt ökat. Målet med detta projekt är att kombinera klimatoptimiseringsmöjligheterna hos industriella system med lättanvändligheten hos system för hemautomatisering. Detta projekt fokuserar specifikt på designen och implementationen av de elektriska och mekaniska krav som ställs på ett "smart greenhouse system". Detta innefattar; val av komponenter såsom sensorer, aktuatorer samt styrenhet men även sammankopplingen mellan dessa komponenter och utvecklingen av mjukvara till reglersystemet, som i sin tur syftar till automatiseringen i växthuset. Systemet är baserat på en WiFi-uppkopplad mikrokontroller. Parametrar som monitoreras är; temperatur, luftfuktighet och vindhastighet. Bevattning kontrolleras av en magnetventil och kan schemaläggas för bevattning i önskade intervall. Ventilering och temperaturoptimisering sker genom kontroll av taklucka med hjälp av ett linjärt ställdon samt kontroll av ett värmeelement. Resultatet demonstrerar ett pålitligt och punktligt system med låg energiförbrukning. Prototypen som utvecklats kan installeras i både nya och befintliga växthus. Funktionaliteterna kan smidigt fjärrkontrolleras och monitoreras från en android applikation. Den totala kostnaden för de komponenter som använts var runt 4500 kr. Vidareutveckling vad gäller skalbarhet för att sömlöst lägga till komponenter och funktionaliteter bör övervägas. För ytterligare minskad energiförbrukning med hjälp av klimatoptimering kan väderprognos adderas som en parameter.

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Paliwal, Gaurav. "Convergence : the next big step /." Online version of thesis, 2006. https://ritdml.rit.edu/dspace/handle/1850/1316.

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Sawyer, Guy. "Proof of concept : home automation solution with potential for seamless integration and vast expansion." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/96078.

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ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The ever-increasing existence of electronic systems and devices within the residential environment, along with the human desire to simplify life and daily routine, is generating increased interest in the field of home automation (HA) and intelligent environments. A large variety of home automation solutions have been conceptualised or developed. However, many of these solutions are designed by experts and require professionals to install and/or operate them. Furthermore they lack the potential for seamless integration into an already functioning home environment. To bridge the gap between consumer and expert as well as allowing for integration into any existing home environment without physical alteration to the building, a modular home automation solution with seamless integration potential is proposed. The implemented system uses open source software and hardware allowing for development to continue within the existing, large open source community. It can be installed and configured without professional skills or physical alteration of the environment itself and due to its modular design, the system also allows users to add and remove functional components to and from the system providing them with a seamlessly customisable home automation solution. Conceptual design and practical implementations are covered in this document, along with recommendations for both continued research and potential avenues for expansion.

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Kennedy, Alistair. "Automatic genre classification of home pages on the web /." Halifax, N.S. : Dalhousie University, 2004. http://torch.cs.dal.ca/%7Ekennedy/genre%5Fthesis.pdf.

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Thesis (B.C.S.)--Dalhousie University, Halifax.
"Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of bachelor of computer science with honours at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, April 2004." Includes bibliographical references (p. 33-35). Also available in PDF via the World Wide Web.

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Mao, Congcong. "Privacy Issues in IoT : Privacy concerns in smart home." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för informatik (IK), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-90587.

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In a world of the Internet of Things, smart home has shown a great potency and trend. A smart home is a convenient home setup where appliances and devices can be automatically controlled remotely from any internet-connected place in the world using a mobile or other networked device. Smart home has changed the way the residents interacted with their home and realised more convenience. Although this technology also has positive impact on saving energy and resources, privacy issues in it have shown to one of the biggest obstacles to the adaption of this technology. The purpose of this thesis is to study smart home users’ perceptions of smart homes and their privacy awareness and concerns. The research was conducted through interviews and followed an interpretive research paradigm and a qualitative research approach. In this study, 5 smart home owners were interviewed to investigate their reasons for purchasing IoT devices, their perceptions of smart home privacy risks, and actions to protect their privacy, as well as managing IoT devices and/or its data. The research results show that there are privacy risks existing in smart homes. Consumers’ privacy data is collected secretly, which needs to be controlled, and privacy issues have to be addressed in the near future for the smart home to be fully adopted by the society.

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Tibiriçá, Álvaro Messias Bigonha. "Uma arquitetura de software neuro-reativa para sistemas de automação do ambiente construído." Universidade de São Paulo, 2008. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/18/18149/tde-17012011-140731/.

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Esta tese propõe uma arquitetura de software neuro-reativa para sistemas de automação do ambiente construído. O objetivo é facilitar o desenvolvimento, a manutenção e a expansão desses sistemas, através de três requisitos norteadores: modularidade, flexibilidade e capacidade de integração das partes. Um modelo baseado em unidades chamadas de \"neurônios\" e de \"glândulas\" é proposto. Esses elementos fundamentais têm características reativas e podem ser combinados formando diferentes sistemas de automação. Uma versão da arquitetura proposta é programada na linguagem Java utilizando tecnologias como CORBA e MySQL. Por fim, uma casa fictícia é utilizada como exemplo para demonstrar a aplicação da arquitetura proposta.
This thesis presents a neuro-reactive software architecture applied to building automation systems. The objective is to make development, maintenance and ex-pansion of these systems easier through three main requirements: modularity, flex-ibility and parts integration capability. A model with units called neurons and glands is proposed. These fundamental elements have reactive characteristics and are combined to constitute automation systems. A version of proposed architecture is programmed in Java language using technologies like CORBA and MySQL. In the end, a fictitious home automation system is used as example.

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Thantulage, Gishantha I. F. "Ant colony optimization based simulation of 3d automatic hose/pipe routing." Thesis, Brunel University, 2009. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/4282.

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This thesis focuses on applying one of the rapidly growing non-deterministic optimization algorithms, the ant colony algorithm, for simulating automatic hose/pipe routing with several conflicting objectives. Within the thesis, methods have been developed and applied to single objective hose routing, multi-objective hose routing and multi-hose routing. The use of simulation and optimization in engineering design has been widely applied in all fields of engineering as the computational capabilities of computers has increased and improved. As a result of this, the application of non-deterministic optimization techniques such as genetic algorithms, simulated annealing algorithms, ant colony algorithms, etc. has increased dramatically resulting in vast improvements in the design process. Initially, two versions of ant colony algorithms have been developed based on, respectively, a random network and a grid network for a single objective (minimizing the length of the hoses) and avoiding obstacles in the CAD model. While applying ant colony algorithms for the simulation of hose routing, two modifications have been proposed for reducing the size of the search space and avoiding the stagnation problem. Hose routing problems often consist of several conflicting or trade-off objectives. In classical approaches, in many cases, multiple objectives are aggregated into one single objective function and optimization is then treated as a single-objective optimization problem. In this thesis two versions of ant colony algorithms are presented for multihose routing with two conflicting objectives: minimizing the total length of the hoses and maximizing the total shared length (bundle length). In this case the two objectives are aggregated into a single objective. The current state-of-the-art approach for handling multi-objective design problems is to employ the concept of Pareto optimality. Within this thesis a new Pareto-based general purpose ant colony algorithm (PSACO) is proposed and applied to a multi-objective hose routing problem that consists of the following objectives: total length of the hoses between the start and the end locations, number of bends, and angles of bends. The proposed method is capable of handling any number of objectives and uses a single pheromone matrix for all the objectives. The domination concept is used for updating the pheromone matrix. Among the currently available multi-objective ant colony optimization (MOACO) algorithms, P-ACO generates very good solutions in the central part of the Pareto front and hence the proposed algorithm is compared with P-ACO. A new term is added to the random proportional rule of both of the algorithms (PSACO and P-ACO) to attract ants towards edges that make angles close to the pre-specified angles of bends. A refinement algorithm is also suggested for searching an acceptable solution after the completion of searching the entire search space. For all of the simulations, the STL format (tessellated format) for the obstacles is used in the algorithm instead of the original shapes of the obstacles. This STL format is passed to the C++ library RAPID for collision detection. As a result of using this format, the algorithms can handle freeform obstacles and the algorithms are not restricted to a particular software package.

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Ambrož, Milan. "Systém domovního vytápění s hybridní komunikací." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta elektrotechniky a komunikačních technologií, 2020. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-412969.

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Carohl, Qvist Amanda. "IOT inom hemautomation : Jämförande av open-source kontrollers." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för informationsteknologi, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-18922.

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Internet Of Things (IoT) och hemautomation innebär möjligheten att koppla upp diverse enheter i ett hem gentemot internet, som därefter har som mål att underlätta och göra konsumenters vardag mer bekvämt. Hemautomation kan exempelvis handla om att låsa dörrar och tända lampor från en enda enhet (kontrollern), vilket underlättar då konsumenten inte behöver gå till vardera enhet för att utföra önskade aktiviteter. Kontrollers är den del av ett IoT-system inom hemautomation som agerar gränssnittet mellan konsumenten och enheterna.Open-source erbjuder konsumenter ett mer fritt nyttjande av produkter pga. dess öppna källkod. Många problem och frågor som uppstår i samband med dessa produkter härstammar inom området av säkerhet, samt vad som skiljer produkterna åt avseende säkerhet.Denna studie har samlat ihop sex open-source kontrollers och genomfört en jämförelse för att identifiera vilka kontrollers som uppnår säkerhet avseende konfidentialitet, integritet och tillgänglighet. Detta har utförts genom att identifiera vilka värden som förekommer i tidigare artiklar där säkerheten utvärderas för IoT och hemautomation, och för kontrollers.Studien kopplar ihop identifierade värden med CIA modellen, vilket står för confidentiality, integrity och availability (konfidentialitet, integritet och tillgänglighet). I samband med CIA modellen presenteras ett resultat där studiens aktuella kontrollers visar till vilken nivå de upprätthåller CIA modellen, baserat på det identifierade värden som fastställts. De kontrollers som förekommer i studien är Home Genie, OpenHAB, Home Assistant, Domoticz, Calaos och Pimatic.Studiens resultat erhålls via en litterär undersökning av 25 tidigare studier samt 12st tillkommande tekniska dokumentationer och forum för samtliga tillhörande kontrollers. Samtliga studier har blivit hämtade från databaserna Google Scholar, IEEE Xplore och ACM Digital Library och har därefter blivit analyserade och tematiskt kodade för vidare information. Totalt har studiens material genomgått urval i fem steg för att garantera relevant material som stämmer överens med studiens kriterier och mål för innehåll. Studiens resultat presenterar en ögonblicksbild som ger kunskap om jämförda kontrollers, specifikt i samband med CIA modellen, vilket belyser produkterna i samband för området av säkerhet avseende konfidentialitet, integritet och tillgänglighet.
Internet of Things (IoT) and home automation means the opportunity to connect various devices in a home to the Internet, which has the goal of facilitating and making consumers’ everyday lives more comfortable. For example, home automation could be about locking doors and lighting lamps from a single device (the controller), which may make it easier for the consumer since the consumer does not have to go to each device to perform the desired activity. Controllers are the part of a home automation IoT-system that acts as an interface between the consumer and the devices.Open-source offers consumers a freer use of products, due to its open-source code. Many problems and issues that arise in connection with these products originate in the field of security, as well as what distinguishes the products in terms of security.This study has collected six open-source controllers and conducted a comparison to identify which controllers achieve security regarding confidentiality, integrity and availability. This has been done by identifying the values that appear in previous articles where security is evaluated for IoT and home automation, and controllers.This study links identified values with the CIA model, which stands for confidentiality, integrity, and availability. In accordance with the CIA model, a result is presented where the study’s current controllers show to what level they maintain the CIA model, based on the identifies values established. The controllers that appears in this study are Home Genie, OpenHAB, Home Assistant, Domoticz, Calaos, and Pimatic.This study’s results are obtained through a literary study of 25 studies, and 12 additional technical documentations and information through forums for all the associated controllers. All studies have been retrieved from the Google Scholar database, IEEE Xplore, and ACM Digital Library, and subsequently analyzed and thematically coded for further information. In total, the material of this study has been selected in five steps to ensure relevant material that meets this study’s criteria and objectives for content. This study’s results present an overview that provides knowledge about compared controllers, specifically in connection with the CIA model which highlights the products in the field of security, regarding confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

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Baptista, Roberto de Souza. "Automatic human movement assessment with switching linear dynamic system : motion segmentation and motor performance." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UnB, 2016. http://repositorio.unb.br/handle/10482/22994.

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Tese (doutorado)—Universidade de Brasília, Faculdade de Tecnologia, Departamento de Engenharia Elétrica, 2016.
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Desenvolvimentos recentes na tecnologia de sensores portáteis estão trazendo dispositivos de medição de movimento humano para atividades cotidianas. Esses sensores fornecem aos usuários finais e profissionais de biomecânica uma quantidade de dados sem precedentes. Além disso, eles proporcionam o desenvolvimento de novas tecnologias em próteses inteligentes e sistemas de interação homem-máquina. No entanto, há uma falta de técnicas para extrair automaticamente as medições indiretas - tais como duração do movimento, amplitude ou coordenação motora - a partir desses dados. Medidas indiretas são necessárias para o reconhecimento, avaliação e análise do movimento humano, e são geralmente extraídas manualmente por meio de inspeção visual por um profissional de biomecânica. Esta tese propõe um novo método para a avaliação automática de movimentos humanos que executa segmentação e extração de parâmetros de desempenho motor (isto é, medições indiretas) em séries temporais de medições de uma seqüência de movimentos humanos. Utilizamos os elementos de um modelo de Sistema Dinâmico Linear Chaveado como blocos de construção para traduzir definições e procedimentos formais da análise tradicional do movimento humano. Nossa abordagem fornece um método para os usuários sem experiência em processamento de sinal para criar modelos para movimentos usando conjunto de dados rotulado e mais tarde empregá-lo para a avaliação automática. Validamos nossa estrutura de testes preliminares envolvendo seis sujeitos adultos saudáveis que executaram movimentos comuns em testes funcionais e sessões de exercícios de reabilitação, como sentar-e-levantar e elevação lateral dos braços, e cinco sujeitos idosos, dois com mobilidade limitada, que executaram o movimento de levantar-se da posição sentada. O método proposto foi aplicado em sequências de movimento aleatório para o duplo propósito de segmentação de movimento (precisão de 72-100%) e avaliação de desempenho motor (erro médio de 0-12%).
Recent developments in portable sensor technology are bringing human movement measurement devices to everyday activities. These sensors provide end users and biomechanists with unprecedented amount of data. Besides, they allow novel technologies in intelligent prosthesis and human-machine interaction systems to emerge. However, there is a lack of techniques to automatically extract indirect measurements - such as movement duration, amplitude or motor coordination - from these data. Indirect measures are necessary for recognition, assessment and analysis of human movement, and are usually extracted manually through visual inspection by a biomechanist. This thesis proposes a novel framework for automatic human movement assessment that executes segmentation and motor performance parameter extraction (i.e. indirect measurements) in time-series of measurements from a sequence of human movements. We use the elements of a Switching Linear Dynamic System model as building blocks to translate formal definitions and procedures from traditional human movement analysis. Our approach provides a method for users with no expertise in signal processing to create models for movements using labeled dataset and later employ it for automatic assessment. We validated our framework on preliminary tests involving six healthy adult subjects that executed common movements in functional tests and rehabilitation exercise sessions, such as sit-to-stand and lateral elevation of the arms, and five elderly subjects, two of which with limited mobility, that executed the sit- to-stand movement. The proposed method worked on random motion sequences for the dual purpose of movement segmentation (accuracy of 72-100%) and motor performance assessment (mean error of 0- 12%).

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Sukojo, Andiputranto. "SmartWave an intelligent microwave to help elderly people cook independently /." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2004. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0005020.

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Bolzani, Caio Augustus Morais. "Análise de arquiteturas e desenvolvimento de uma plataforma para residências inteligentes." Universidade de São Paulo, 2009. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/3/3142/tde-12082010-112005/.

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No início do século XX, poucas décadas depois do início da eletrificação das casas, o conceito de uma residência automatizada já era utilizado como símbolo de um futuro livre das tarefas domésticas. No entanto, mesmo com o desenvolvimento de tecnologias de suporte, a automação de residências nunca contemplou uma ampla disseminação e uso. Este trabalho realiza uma análise social, econômica, tecnológica, cultural e de saúde da sociedade, desde o início do século XX até os dias atuais, para entender o comportamento humano relativo ao ambiente residencial e identificar as possíveis causas que não favoreceram a implantação de sistemas de controle e automação nestes ambientes. Ele ainda propõe uma arquitetura de sistemas eletrônicos e computacionais para o ambiente residencial, baseada em um conjunto de requerimentos e de abstrações coerentes com o contexto socioeconômico vigente e factível diante das atuais disponibilidades tecnológicas, a fim de direcionar os esforços na área e fomentar o desenvolvimento de aplicações. Adicionalmente, é apresentada uma plataforma de desenvolvimento hardware, firmware e software , denominada Home Sapiens, cuja concepção, projeto e desenvolvimento foram feitos no contexto desta tese. Baseada em nós de controle distribuídos, ela permite o acesso aos dados provenientes de sensores, a geração de informações de contexto, a identificação de serviços e a manipulação das características do ambiente residencial segundo regras de decisão, planejamento e métodos de aprendizado baseados em técnicas de Inteligência Artificial
In the early twentieth century, a few decades after the beginning of the electrification of houses, the concept of an automated home was used as a symbol of a future free of domestic chores. However, even with the development of supporting technologies, the automation of homes never contemplated a wide dissemination and use. This paper presents an analysis social, economic, technological, cultural and health of society, from the early twentieth century to the present day, to understand human behavior on the residential environment and to identify possible causes that did not favor deployment of control systems and automation in these environments. It also proposes an architecture of computer and electronic systems for the residential environment, based on a set of applications and abstractions consistent with the current socioeconomic context and feasible under the available technology in order to direct efforts in the area and promote the development of applications. Additionally, the implementation of a framework hardware, firmware and software called Home Sapiens is presented, whose conception, design and development were made in the context of this thesis. Based on distributed control nodes, it provides access to data from sensors, the generation of information of context, the identification of services and handling characteristics of the residential environment in accordance with rules of decision, planning and learning methods based on Artificial Intelligence.

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Ma, Sicong, Prina Shah, and Jun Che. "A Vision for a Better User Experience in a Smart Home." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för maskinteknik, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-3089.

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The maturity of smart home technologies and wireless capabilities, increased accessibility through mass-market availability of internet is making the feasibility of the smart home more realistic. The added incentives to better control utilities and communications to make lives more sustainable, has also driven the growth in the market. This thesis investigates the advantages of the smart home both for the environment and user. Outlining opportunities for business by finding gaps in the market is to better synthesise products and services to improve the user experience. A literature review, market research and ethnographic research was undertaken to understand the current state of the smart home industry and identify the main stakeholders that impact the user. A customer journey map was created to visualise the user process and highlighted problem areas. A survey showed users were most concerned about quality, functions and saving energy and money. The survey perceptions on interactions with technology also shed light into the necessity for robust and reliable technology and adaptable products and services. The final outcome is a prototype model to improve user experience, including stakeholder influence, user needs and the connections between different stakeholders from pre-sale, sale and after-sale.

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Fältros, Jesper, Isak Alinger, and Bergen Axel von. "Safety risks with ZigBee smart devices : Identifying risks and countermeasures in ZigBee devices with an eavesdropping experiment." Thesis, Tekniska Högskolan, Jönköping University, JTH, Datateknik och informatik, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-49630.

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With ZigBee being the world’s leading IoT protocol, users are vulnerable to attacks on the wireless communication between ZigBee devices and the information that can be gained from them. For users to protect themselves from potential attacks they need to be aware of what information can be extracted and how it can be countered. Through an eavesdropping experiment, done using three individual sensors from different vendors, various packets with potential for misuse have been identified within the area of building security. With the potential areas of misuse identified, there is also a need for countermeasures against these threats. Countermeasures were identified through a collection of literature that was summarized in order to provide a wide range of alternatives, suitable to different scenarios. The experiment was limited to the functions of the sensors used, as well as traffic using the ZigBee protocol. This study pinpoints a potential for misuse of the ZigBee traffic sent between devices and shows that the ZigBee protocol is fundamentally flawed from a security aspect. Whilst countermeasures exist, they are not applicable to every situation which is why the ZigBee protocol itself needs further development to be considered secure.

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劉育如. "Implementation of Home Automation System." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/01398751282925759606.

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According to the concept of Internet of Things, this research designs an automatic remote system for home monitoring based on Wi-Fi. There are three main functions. First, the system applies Logitech Internet camera C170 to operate in coordination with Raspberry Pi to monitor remotely. Secondly, the system uses the OS of Raspberry Pi to establish Web pages in order to control the devices remotely. Lastly, users can use smart phone to connect Internet by Wi-Fi and give the commands through the Web page. When the remote side receives the signal, the system will send the signal to Web page for monitoring and control by Raspberry Pi. In addition, the system can show the conditions of sensors and switches. This research mainly use Raspberry Pi to connect each hardware devices to achieve the modularization of hardware and software and the scalability functions. Furthermore, the system contains the value of economic benefits.

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Yadav, Om Prakash. "GSM Based Home Automation System." Thesis, 2017. http://ethesis.nitrkl.ac.in/8877/1/2017_MT_OPYadav.pdf.

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This thesis presents execution of user friendly and cost effective home automation system with remote control of home appliances. This model is developed to help the handicapped and elder persons at home in addition to that; home automation can also be used to improve the living status of human being. The primary control system uses a GSM Module which gives a remote access to mobile phones. In order to control appliances, status of the home appliances and surrounding environment are required. The main focus of our work is to control home appliances in real time through GSM service based on sensor output. Based on this whole system is developed. Signals from sensors and status of the devices are provided to ATmega328 microcontroller. Further, using logics and processing the input signal, control signal are sent to control the home appliances through relay. On the other hand, Arduino codes are developed in its IDE (Integrated Development Environment) platform. The system is made to control electrical appliances of the house with ease of use and installation.

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Hsu, Chin-Ping, and 徐治平. "A Design of E-Home Automation System." Thesis, 2001. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/84425411622550523398.

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資訊管理學系
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In the E-era, people concern about speed, efficiency, and convenience. Using network becomes an essential skill. Accessing data via Internet is a trend, and so is in the home automation field. In this thesis, we propose a seven-layer home-automation-system development architecture that is simple, modulized, and expandable. And based on this architecture, we implement an economic, centralized home automation system. It is web-based, and is adapted to some open standards such as TCP, XML, HTTP, etc. The user-operating device is a PC or a cellular phone. The user interface is a web browser or a micro-browser. The core of the system is a database. The design of replacing the ordinary human- machine interface by accessing web database allows the user who is capable of designing homepages to participate in the design and to enjoy the fun of DIY. The ultimate goal of this thesis is to let people easily control the household electric devices or appliances wherever they are, so as to provide them with a more comfortable and convenient life.

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