Optimal Domotic Systems Based on Archival Data Trend Analysis

Domotics is the integration of technology into building systems. Due to the rapid growth in the use of domotic systems in recent years, the industry is struggling to establish consistency and standardization. The purpose of this archival-based qualitative case study was to identify current trends and patterns in scholarly domotic research to create an instrument to evaluate domotic systems and domotic interrelationships using bibliometric searches. The facilities management and modeling system provided the framework for the study. Archival research data were examined to identify trends and patterns in domotic research and provide visualization of domotic relationships through technology trajectory mapping and technology s-curve charts. Text-mining techniques were used to explore trends and patterns in recent scholarly domotic research. The technology s-curve was used to determine trends and patterns in domotic systems design. The results included a tool for the evaluation of domotic systems, which may provide domotic designers with a tool to evaluate the progress of domotic systems. The study also provided results on trends in domotic technologies, which may be used to improve building design development

Discovering and accessing peer-to-peer services in UPnP-based federated Domotic Islands

The growing availability of low-cost network-enabled consumer equipment is pushing for novel domotic scenarios characterized by a plethora of heterogeneous devices providing services in a peer-to-peer fashion. In particular, UPnP is widely recognized as the most spread and adopted industrial standard to support inter-device discovery and communication in home networks. However, UPnP scope is traditionally limited to domotic islands, i.e., devices communicate only if in direct visibility and deployed in the same subnet. The paper presents a novel approach to easily and efficiently federate UPnP-based domotic islands, supporting seamless interworking of legacy UPnP devices deployed in different networks at multi-hop distance. In addition, the proposed solution supports Internet federation of remote islands, based on user-managed named groups, to allow the secure discovery and fruition of peer-to-peer services only to authorized users. The proposed solution has been implemented, deployed, and thoroughly tested on several platforms, ranging from high-performance desktop PCs to off-the-shelf smartphones and router-like OSGi-enabled equipment. The reported performance results demonstrate that our solution is suitable even for low-end devices with limited hardware capabilities

Discovering and accessing peer-to-peer services in UPnP-based federated Domotic Islands

The growing availability of low-cost network-enabled consumer equipment is pushing for novel domotic scenarios characterized by a plethora of heterogeneous devices providing services in a peer-to-peer fashion. In particular, UPnP is widely recognized as the most spread and adopted industrial standard to support inter-device discovery and communication in home networks. However, UPnP scope is traditionally limited to domotic islands, i.e., devices communicate only if in direct visibility and deployed in the same subnet. The paper presents a novel approach to easily and efficiently federate UPnP-based domotic islands, supporting seamless interworking of legacy UPnP devices deployed in different networks at multi-hop distance. In addition, the proposed solution supports Internet federation of remote islands, based on user-managed named groups, to allow the secure discovery and fruition of peer-to-peer services only to authorized users. The proposed solution has been implemented, deployed, and thoroughly tested on several platforms, ranging from high-performance desktop PCs to off-the-shelf smartphones and router-like OSGi-enabled equipment. The reported performance results demonstrate that our solution is suitable even for low-end devices with limited hardware capabilities

Sensor Networks and Their Applications: Investigating the Role of Sensor Web Enablement

The Engineering Doctorate (EngD) was conducted in conjunction with BT Research on state-of-the-art Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) projects. The first area of work is a literature review of WSN project applications, some of which the author worked on as a BT Researcher based at the world renowned Adastral Park Research Labs in Suffolk (2004-09). WSN applications are examined within the context of Machine-to-Machine (M2M); Information Networking (IN); Internet/Web of Things (IoT/WoT); smart home and smart devices; BT’s 21st Century Network (21CN); Cloud Computing; and future trends. In addition, this thesis provides an insight into the capabilities of similar external WSN project applications. Under BT’s Sensor Virtualization project, the second area of work focuses on building a Generic Architecture for WSNs with reusable infrastructure and ‘infostructure’ by identifying and trialling suitable components, in order to realise actual business benefits for BT. The third area of work focuses on the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards and their Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) initiative. The SWE framework was investigated to ascertain its potential as a component of the Generic Architecture. BT’s SAPHE project served as a use case. BT Research’s experiences of taking this traditional (vertical) stove-piped application and creating SWE compliant services are described. The author’s findings were originally presented in a series of publications and have been incorporated into this thesis along with supplementary WSN material from BT Research projects. SWE 2.0 specifications are outlined to highlight key improvements, since work began at BT with SWE 1.0. The fourth area of work focuses on Complex Event Processing (CEP) which was evaluated to ascertain its potential for aggregating and correlating the shared project sensor data (‘infostructure’) harvested and for enabling data fusion for WSNs in diverse domains. Finally, the conclusions and suggestions for further work are provided

Enhanced Living Environments

This open access book was prepared as a Final Publication of the COST Action IC1303 “Algorithms, Architectures and Platforms for Enhanced Living Environments (AAPELE)”. The concept of Enhanced Living Environments (ELE) refers to the area of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) that is more related with Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). Effective ELE solutions require appropriate ICT algorithms, architectures, platforms, and systems, having in view the advance of science and technology in this area and the development of new and innovative solutions that can provide improvements in the quality of life for people in their homes and can reduce the financial burden on the budgets of the healthcare providers. The aim of this book is to become a state-of-the-art reference, discussing progress made, as well as prompting future directions on theories, practices, standards, and strategies related to the ELE area. The book contains 12 chapters and can serve as a valuable reference for undergraduate students, post-graduate students, educators, faculty members, researchers, engineers, medical doctors, healthcare organizations, insurance companies, and research strategists working in this area