The ETSI SAREF Ontology for Smart Applications: A Long Path of Development and Evolution

This book chapter provides the motivation for the SAREF ontology as well as its relationship with existing IoT ontologies, focussing on the smart home and smart application domains. Provides the context of its origin and evolution since its first version published by ETSI in November 2015 and details how it is developed in practice. The chapter...

Making heterogeneous smart home data interoperable with the SAREF ontology

SAREF is an ontology created to enable interoperability between smart devices, but there is a lack in the literature of practical examples to implement SAREF in real applications. We validate the practical implementation of SAREF through two approaches. We first examine two methods to map the IoT data available in a smart home into linked data...

Your smart coffee machine knows what you did last summer: A legal analysis of the limitations of traditional privacy of the home under Dutch law in the era of smart technology

The increasing number of smart devices entering our homes have implications for privacy. Not only do we bring in more spying devices into the home, often these smart objects are linked to data streams or other devices that leave the home – thereby literally taking private matters into public space. In this paper, we take the context of the...

Business case for smart homes

The application of home automation in “smart homes” has been successful from a technological point of view. In practice, however, few projects seem able to survive after the initial financing period has ended, failing to establish a positive business case. This chapter addresses why the positive business case for smart homes is hard to establish...

Managing performance based building of smart homes

Smart homes are considered a vital technology in an aging society as they compensate for a shortage in care workers. However, often smart homes do not perform well. Performance management is well known in the manufacturing industry but not common in the building industry. The performance approach is the practice of thinking and working in terms...

Home automation as an example of construction innovation

Home automation can contribute to the health of (older) adults. Home automation covers a broad field of ‘intelligent’ electronic or mechanical devices in the home (domestic) environment. Realizing home automation is technically possible, though still not common. In this paper main influential factors for home-automation diffusion are identified...

Usability of an adaptive computer assistant that improves self-care and health literacy of older adults

Objectives: We developed an adaptive computer assistant for the supervision of diabetics' self-care, to support limiting illness and need for acute treatment, and improve health literacy. This assistant monitors self-care activities logged in the patient's electronic diary. Accordingly, it provides context-aware feedback. The objective was to...

Domotica en slim wonen: van plan tot uitvoering. Programma 'Ontgroening en vergrijzing'

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Evaluating the speech output component of a smart-home system

This paper describes four experiments which have been carried out to evaluate the speech output component of the INSPIRE spoken dialogue system, providing speech control for di.erent devices located in a ‘‘smart’’ home environment. The aim is to quantify the impact of different factors on the quality of the system, when addressed either in the...

Stappenplan Domotica. Programma 'Ontgroening en vergrijzing'