Context Awareness in a Smart Home

Robin De Croon(@robindecroon & robindecroon.wordpress.com)

Advisor dr. Sten GovaertsSupervisor prof. Erik Duval

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Current situation• Smart homes already exist!

o Most of the time pressing buttons

• A lot of information!o Difficult to useo No real use for this informationo Avoid pressing buttons

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Awareness Data• Location

• Temperature

• Light

• Gestures

• Who uses what when and where?

• Some data is easy to gather already lots of sensors

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Self-Reflection Questions• Visualize all the data in an easy way

• New possibilities?

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Sense-making Answers• Reject calls when inappropriate (meeting, sleeping, …)

• Heat home, rooms (bath room) at usual time

• Light path to toilet, when night

• Phones only ring in rooms where the addressee is actually present, preventing other people being disturbed by useless ringing

• allow family members to speak to each other as if they were in the same room, even when they are in different rooms

• Alarm when unauthorized persons in the home

• The right music in the right room

• Help searching keys, phone, …

• Block dangerous locations when there is no parent around

• Recognize sleep patterns,

• Lights, chairs and tables automatically adjust as

• soon as the family gathers in the living room to watch TV.

• In assisted living complexes, context-aware systems monitor the state of the elderly occupants20/09/2012

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Impact Change behavior• Apply suggested setting

• Change living behavior

• Reduce energy bill

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Quote• (Internet Home Alliance 2002) show that the most appealing aspect of

the connected home is the time-saving associated with the ability to control a variety of devices in the house. The least appealing aspect is the presumption that the technology will be too complicated.

• What if…

The house could learn all that complicated stuff by itself?

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