Laboratoire d'Intelligence Ambiante pour la Reconnaissance d'Activités, Département d'Informatique et de Mathématiques, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 555 Bd. de l'Université, Saguenay, QC G7H 2B1, Canada.
Sensors (Basel). 2022 Apr 7;22(8):2829. doi: 10.3390/s22082829.
Several smart home architecture implementations have been proposed in the last decade. These architectures are mostly deployed in laboratories or inside real habitations built for research purposes to enable the use of ambient intelligence using a wide variety of sensors, actuators and machine learning algorithms. However, the major issues for most related smart home architectures are their price, proprietary hardware requirements and the need for highly specialized personnel to deploy such systems. To tackle these challenges, lighter forms of smart home architectures known as smart homes in a box (SHiB) have been proposed. While SHiB remain an encouraging first step towards lightweight yet affordable solutions, they still suffer from few drawbacks. Indeed, some of these kits lack hardware support for some technologies, and others do not include enough sensors and actuators to cover most smart homes' requirements. Thus, this paper introduces the LIARA Portable Smart Home Kit (LIPSHOK). It has been designed to provide an affordable SHiB solution that anyone is able to install in an existing home. Moreover, LIPSHOK is a generic kit that includes a total of four specialized sensor modules that were introduced independently, as our laboratory has been working on their development over the last few years. This paper first provides a summary of each of these modules and their respective benefits within a smart home context. Then, it mainly focus on the introduction of the LIPSHOK architecture that provides a framework to unify the use of the proposed sensors thanks to a common modular infrastructure capable of managing heterogeneous technologies. Finally, we compare our work to the existing SHiB kit solutions and outline that it offers a more affordable, extensible and scalable solution whose resources are distributed under an open-source license.
在过去的十年中，已经提出了几种智能家居架构。这些架构主要部署在实验室或为研究目的而建造的真实住宅中，以便使用各种传感器、执行器和机器学习算法来实现环境智能。然而，大多数相关智能家居架构的主要问题是它们的价格、专有硬件要求以及部署此类系统所需的高度专业化人员。为了解决这些挑战，提出了一种称为智能家庭箱（SHiB）的更轻量级的智能家居架构。虽然 SHiB 仍然是朝着轻量级且经济实惠的解决方案迈出的令人鼓舞的第一步，但它们仍然存在一些缺点。实际上，其中一些套件缺乏某些技术的硬件支持，而其他套件则没有包含足够的传感器和执行器来满足大多数智能家居的需求。因此，本文介绍了 LIARA 便携式智能家居套件（LIPSHOK）。它旨在提供一种经济实惠的 SHiB 解决方案，任何人都可以在家中现有的基础上进行安装。此外，LIPSHOK 是一种通用套件，其中包含总共四个独立引入的专用传感器模块，因为我们的实验室在过去几年中一直在开发这些模块。本文首先提供了对每个模块的概述，以及它们在智能家居环境中的各自优势。然后，它主要侧重于介绍 LIPSHOK 架构，该架构通过一个通用的模块化基础设施提供了一个框架，通过该框架可以统一使用所提出的传感器，因为该基础设施能够管理异构技术。最后，我们将我们的工作与现有的 SHiB 套件解决方案进行了比较，并指出它提供了一种更经济实惠、可扩展和可扩展的解决方案，其资源在开源许可证下进行了分发。
