Institute of Information Science and Technologies of CNR (CNR-ISTI)-Italy, 56124 Pisa, Italy .
Sensors (Basel). 2018 Jun 8;18(6):1886. doi: 10.3390/s18061886.
Smart Home has gained widespread attention due to its flexible integration into everyday life. Pervasive sensing technologies are used to recognize and track the activities that people perform during the day, and to allow communication and cooperation of physical objects. Usually, the available infrastructures and applications leveraging these smart environments have a critical impact on the overall cost of the Smart Home construction, require to be preferably installed during the home construction and are still not user-centric. In this paper, we propose a low cost, easy to install, user-friendly, dynamic and flexible infrastructure able to perform runtime resources management by decoupling the different levels of control rules. The basic idea relies on the usage of off-the-shelf sensors and technologies to guarantee the regular exchange of critical information, without the necessity from the user to develop accurate models for managing resources or regulating their access/usage. This allows us to simplify the continuous updating and improvement, to reduce the maintenance effort and to improve residents’ living and security. A first validation of the proposed infrastructure on a case study is also presented.
智能家居由于其灵活融入日常生活而受到广泛关注。普及感知技术用于识别和跟踪人们白天进行的活动，并允许物理对象进行通信和协作。通常，利用这些智能环境的现有基础设施和应用程序对智能家居建设的总成本有重大影响，需要在房屋建造期间优先安装，而且还不是以用户为中心的。在本文中，我们提出了一种低成本、易于安装、用户友好、动态和灵活的基础设施，能够通过分离不同级别的控制规则来执行运行时资源管理。其基本思想依赖于使用现成的传感器和技术来保证关键信息的定期交换，而无需用户为管理资源或调节其访问/使用而开发准确的模型。这使得我们能够简化持续更新和改进，减少维护工作，并提高居民的生活和安全性。还介绍了在案例研究上对所提出的基础设施的初步验证。
