Living Process Smart Home Use Case Implementation and Validation

Abstract

— The living process smart home is no longer concentrated on the control of energy usage and home environment automation, but the system must be designed to take care of the interaction of the people living in the smart home. The proposed smart home system will use context to provide a more precise service. The control system is extended to include alert and warning from info-sensors which are information related to the wellbeing of home owners. A central communication mechanism called Living Process Social Engagement Room is used by the member of the family to resolve abnormal events as monitored by the physical sensors and from the alert and warning from the info-sensor. In order to validate this system, a prototype was developed and a number of use-cases were used as the test cases in the experiment and a set of questionnaires are used to obtain the opinion of a sample group that participated in the experiments.

Keywords - smart home, living process, engagement room, smart home use cases.