O presente trabalho discute a compatibilidade e integração entre sistemas e dispositivos de automação residencial, propondo formas de melhorá-la. Essa integração tende a se tornar uma tarefa complexa devido à grande variedade de padrões e tecnologias de integração adotados na automação residencial. O presente trabalho propõe uma extensão do padrão Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) e a utilização de uma arquitetura modular com duas camadas, afim de adaptá-lo à integração dos subsistemas de automação residencial. Esse padrão estendido é, então, utilizado na camada superior, para o controle e integração entre os subsistemas. Já na camada inferior, cada subsistema utiliza a tecnologia de comunicação mais adequada para controlar seus dispositivos, e possui uma interface UPnP para se comunicar com outros subsistemas e permitir seu controle pelo usuário. Dessa forma os subsistemas tornam-se módulos do sistema de automação da residência. Essa proposta permite que o usuário compre e substitua facilmente subsistemas de fabricantes distintos, de forma a integrá-los, resultando em um sistema de automação residencial flexível e independente de fabricante. Para testar a extensão proposta, um caso de uso de um subsistema de iluminação foi criado. A partir deste, foram realizadas simulações computacionais. Os resultados destas foram apresentados e analisados, verificando-se o atendimento aos requisitos do sistema e se as características desejadas foram alcançadas, tais como, a característica plug and play de subsistemas, o aumento da flexibilidade e a modularização do sistema, para facilitar a compra e manutenção de sistemas de automação residencial, gerando o potencial para fomentar a maior adoção de sistemas de automação residencial. No entanto, a extensão proposta também resulta no aumento da complexidade do cliente UPnP que a utiliza para interagir com o sistema, o que pode dificultar a adoção de sistemas de automação residencial no futuro. Por fim, sugestões de continuidade e perspectivas futuras foram apresentadas. / This work discuss the compatibility an integration between systems and devices for home automation, proposing ways to improve it. This integration tends to become a complex task due to the wide variety of integration standards and technologies adopted in home automation. This paper proposes an extension of the standard Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) and the use of a modular architecture with two layers in order to adapt it to the integration of home automation subsystems. This extended standard is then used in the upper layer for the control and integration of the subsystems. In the bottom layer, each subsystem uses the most appropriate communication technology to control their devices, it has an UPnP interface to communicate with other subsystems and allow user control. Thus subsystems become modules of the home automation system. This proposal allows the user to easily purchase and replace subsystems from different manufacturers, in order to integrate them transparently, resulting in a flexible home automation system and independent of manufacturer. To test the proposed extension, a use case of an illumination subsystem was created and software simulations were carried out. The simulation results were presented and analyzed, verifying the compliance with the system requirements and whether the desired characteristics have been achieved, such as the subsystem plug and play feature, the modularity and flexibility enhancement of the system, to facilitate the purchase and maintenance of the home automation system, generating the potential to foster greater adoption of home automation systems. However, the proposed extension also results in increased complexity of the UPnP client that uses it to interact with the system, which can hinder the adoption of home automation systems in the future. Finally, future suggestions and perspectives were presented.

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Every year, one out of three adults over the age of 65 falls, and about 30% of the falls result in moderate to severe injuries. The high rate of fall-related hospitalizations and the fact that falls are a major source of morbidity and mortality in older adults have motivated extensive interdisciplinary clinical and engineering research with a focus on fall prevention. This research is aimed at developing a medical Cyber Physical System (CPS) composed of a human supervised mobile robot and ambient intelligence sensors to provide continuous evaluation of environmental risks in the home. As a preventive measure to avoid falls, we propose use of mobile robots to detect possible fall risks inside a house. As a step-up to that, we also define a control framework for intelligent, networked mobile robots to semi-autonomously perform assistive and preventive tasks. This framework is integrated in a smart home that provides monitoring and control capabilities of environmental conditions such as objects blocking pathways or uneven surfaces. The main outcome of this work is the realization of this system at Worcester Polytechnic Institute's (WPI) @Home testbed.

O presente trabalho discute a compatibilidade e integração entre sistemas e dispositivos de automação residencial, propondo formas de melhorá-la. Essa integração tende a se tornar uma tarefa complexa devido à grande variedade de padrões e tecnologias de integração adotados na automação residencial. O presente trabalho propõe uma extensão do padrão Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) e a utilização de uma arquitetura modular com duas camadas, afim de adaptá-lo à integração dos subsistemas de automação residencial. Esse padrão estendido é, então, utilizado na camada superior, para o controle e integração entre os subsistemas. Já na camada inferior, cada subsistema utiliza a tecnologia de comunicação mais adequada para controlar seus dispositivos, e possui uma interface UPnP para se comunicar com outros subsistemas e permitir seu controle pelo usuário. Dessa forma os subsistemas tornam-se módulos do sistema de automação da residência. Essa proposta permite que o usuário compre e substitua facilmente subsistemas de fabricantes distintos, de forma a integrá-los, resultando em um sistema de automação residencial flexível e independente de fabricante. Para testar a extensão proposta, um caso de uso de um subsistema de iluminação foi criado. A partir deste, foram realizadas simulações computacionais. Os resultados destas foram apresentados e analisados, verificando-se o atendimento aos requisitos do sistema e se as características desejadas foram alcançadas, tais como, a característica plug and play de subsistemas, o aumento da flexibilidade e a modularização do sistema, para facilitar a compra e manutenção de sistemas de automação residencial, gerando o potencial para fomentar a maior adoção de sistemas de automação residencial. No entanto, a extensão proposta também resulta no aumento da complexidade do cliente UPnP que a utiliza para interagir com o sistema, o que pode dificultar a adoção de sistemas de automação residencial no futuro. Por fim, sugestões de continuidade e perspectivas futuras foram apresentadas. / This work discuss the compatibility an integration between systems and devices for home automation, proposing ways to improve it. This integration tends to become a complex task due to the wide variety of integration standards and technologies adopted in home automation. This paper proposes an extension of the standard Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) and the use of a modular architecture with two layers in order to adapt it to the integration of home automation subsystems. This extended standard is then used in the upper layer for the control and integration of the subsystems. In the bottom layer, each subsystem uses the most appropriate communication technology to control their devices, it has an UPnP interface to communicate with other subsystems and allow user control. Thus subsystems become modules of the home automation system. This proposal allows the user to easily purchase and replace subsystems from different manufacturers, in order to integrate them transparently, resulting in a flexible home automation system and independent of manufacturer. To test the proposed extension, a use case of an illumination subsystem was created and software simulations were carried out. The simulation results were presented and analyzed, verifying the compliance with the system requirements and whether the desired characteristics have been achieved, such as the subsystem plug and play feature, the modularity and flexibility enhancement of the system, to facilitate the purchase and maintenance of the home automation system, generating the potential to foster greater adoption of home automation systems. However, the proposed extension also results in increased complexity of the UPnP client that uses it to interact with the system, which can hinder the adoption of home automation systems in the future. Finally, future suggestions and perspectives were presented.

Le programme environnemental des Nations Unies indique que les bâtiments utilisent près de 40% de l'énergie,25% de l'eau et 40% des ressources globales. Ils émettent approximativement un tiers des émissions de gaz à effetde serre. Ses chiffres sont en constante augmentation si l'on considère que de plus en plus de notre temps estpassé à l'intérieur des bâtiments, avec une recherche accrue vers davantage de confort dans les espaces de vie.Aujourd'hui, les technologies embarquées et ubiquitaires rendent possible cette amélioration du confort au sein demaisons intelligentes (Smart Homes).Les travaux décrits dans ce mémoire de thèse portent essentiellement sur les approches de gestion intelligente duconfort thermique dans les bâtiments, tout en réduisant également la consommation d'énergie. Le confort thermiqueest un des critères les plus importants à prendre en compte pour améliorer le confort global des utilisateurs.Dans un premier temps, notre démarche scientifique a consisté à percevoir chaque bâtiment comme un systèmecyber-physique, c'est-à-dire un système où des éléments informatiques collaborent pour le contrôle et la commanded'entités physiques. En vue d'améliorer le confort thermique dans les bâtiments résidentiels, nous avons toutd'abord analysé les avantages et les inconvénients de méthodes de contrôle local et de méthodes de contrôleoptimal de gestion du confort. Nous avons ensuite proposé, implémenté et validé une méthode de contrôle hybride.Celle-ci est divisée en deux modules : un module d'optimisation inverse PMV, et un module de contrôle de type PID.Le premier module est utilisé pour déterminer une température intérieure que le module PID devra atteindre en tantque température de consigne. Les expériences menées en simulation montrent que cette technique permetd'améliorer le confort thermique de manière satisfaisante et efficace par rapport à un panel de méthodes proposéesdans la littérature.Dans un second temps, notre attention s'est portée sur l'amélioration du confort et de l'efficacité énergétique au seind'un ensemble de bâtiments géographiquement proches et hétérogènes, c'est-à-dire comprenant des appareilsélectriques contrôlables. Pour modéliser ce large système, nous avons utilisé le concept d'holarchie, qui est unehiérarchie d'agents holoniques (ou holons), des agents pouvant être composés d'autres agents. Nous avons ensuiteproposé, implémenté et évalué une méta-heuristique basée sur l'optimisation particulaire coopérative pour optimiserle scheduling des appareils contrôlables dans l'ensemble des bâtiments. Les résultats des expériences desimulation montrent la pertinence de l'approche pour un système comportant deux niveaux dans la holarchie.Néanmoins une extension de notre approche à des holarchies comportant davantage de niveaux serait tout à faitenvisageable. / With the development of human society, smart homes attract more and more attention from the research fields, since they can offer a great potential for improving indoor comfort and energy efficiency. In this work, firstly great effort is concentrated on the thermal comfort improvement, not only for its dominant influence on indoor comfort, but also the overriding energy consumption in residential buildings spent on it. Thus a cyber-physical system , which adopts a hybrid intelligent control method, to regulate the indoor temperature is designed and implemented. Based on this system, thermal comfort and the energy efficiency can be improved compared with other popular methods. Towards further improving energy efficiency of individual homes and the grid utility, a set of neighbouring smart homes, each comprising a number of controllable devices, and a smart grid adopting demand response are considered. Moreover, an organization centered multi-agent system is employed to model this large-scale complex system. For the reason that selfish and non-coordinated scheduling of the controllable devices for time-varying prices may lead to severe peak rebounds, hence a meta-heuristic algorithm based on cooperative particle swarm optimizationis proposed to optimize schedules of these devices. The experimental results have verified the proposed system and algorithm. In addition, the problems solved and the system designed in this dissertation belong to the two bottom layers of the smart grid holarchy. Based on these research results and the scalability of the holarchy, more complex problems from higher layers of the holarchy can be tackled in future.

Several researchers have successfully developed realistic models of real world objects/ phenomena and then have simulated them in the virtual world. In this thesis, we propose the opposite: instantiating virtual world events in the real world. The interactive 3D virtual environment provides a useful, realistic 3D world that resembles objects/phenomena of a real world, but it has limited capability to communicate with the physical environment. We argue that new and intuitive 3D user interfaces, such as 3D virtual environment interfaces, may provide an alternative form of media for communicating with the real environment. We propose a 3D virtual world-based add-on architecture that achieves a synchronized virtual-real communication. In this framework, we explored the possibilities of integrating haptic and real world object interactions with Linden Lab's multiuser online 3D virtual world, Second Life. We enhanced the open source Second Life viewer client in order to facilitate communications between the real and virtual world. Moreover, we analyzed the suitability of such an approach in terms of user perception, intuition and other common parameters. Our experiments suggest that the proposed approach not only demonstrates a more intuitive mode of communication system, but also is appealing and useful to the user. Some of the potential applications of the proposed approach include remote child-care, communication between distant lovers, stress recovery, and home automation.

Several researchers have successfully developed realistic models of real world objects/ phenomena and then have simulated them in the virtual world. In this thesis, we propose the opposite: instantiating virtual world events in the real world. The interactive 3D virtual environment provides a useful, realistic 3D world that resembles objects/phenomena of a real world, but it has limited capability to communicate with the physical environment. We argue that new and intuitive 3D user interfaces, such as 3D virtual environment interfaces, may provide an alternative form of media for communicating with the real environment. We propose a 3D virtual world-based add-on architecture that achieves a synchronized virtual-real communication. In this framework, we explored the possibilities of integrating haptic and real world object interactions with Linden Lab's multiuser online 3D virtual world, Second Life. We enhanced the open source Second Life viewer client in order to facilitate communications between the real and virtual world. Moreover, we analyzed the suitability of such an approach in terms of user perception, intuition and other common parameters. Our experiments suggest that the proposed approach not only demonstrates a more intuitive mode of communication system, but also is appealing and useful to the user. Some of the potential applications of the proposed approach include remote child-care, communication between distant lovers, stress recovery, and home automation.

Τα δίκτυα δεδομένων έχουν περάσει από πειραματική τεχνολογία στο να γίνουν ένα βασικό εργαλείο για δουλεία, ψυχαγωγία και να χρησιμοποιούνται από επιχειρήσεις και σπίτια παγκοσμίως. Οι επιχειρήσεις χρησιμοποιούν δίκτυα για να μεταφέρουν αρχεία, να μοιράσουν εφαρμογές μεταξύ υπολογιστών, καθώς επίσης και για να δώσουν δυνατότητα πρόσβασης πολλών υπολογιστών μαζί σε δικτυακές συσκευές, όπως είναι για παράδειγμα οι εκτυπωτές. Πέρα από την παραπάνω χρήση, η οποία γίνεται από επιχειρήσεις και είναι αρκετά σημαντική, υπάρχει και η απαίτηση για τη μετάδοση δεδομένων στο σπίτι. Οι χρήστες που έχουν συχνά περισσότερους από έναν υπολογιστές στον ιδιωτικό τους χώρο, χρησιμοποιούν τα δίκτυα δεδομένων έτσι ώστε να διαμοιράσουν αρχεία και δεδομένα, για την αυτοματοποίηση του σπιτιού τους συμπεριλαμβανομένων εφαρμογών όπως τα συστήματα ασφάλειας, για δικτυακά παιχνίδια, για τον έλεγχο θέρμανσης αλλά και για πάμπολλες οικιακές εφαρμογές. Ένας εύκολος, έξυπνος και φθηνός τρόπος δικτύωσης οικιακών δικτύων, είναι η δικτύωση μέσω των ηλεκτρικών γραμμών. / Networks become very popular for small offices and homes. Companies use networks in order all users to be able to communicate and use common printers, scanners, e.t.c. Into our homes, networking become popular due to the use of it. You may control heat, stream audio and video. A way to network you house is power line communication.

Technologijos sparčiai plečiasi, tačiau išlieka labai svarbus klausimas – centralizuotas namo sistemų valdymas. Šiame darbe tiriamos priemonės, skirtos namo inžinerinių mazgų ir sistemų automatizavimui, ir centralizuotam valdymui. Analizės dalyje pateikiama šiuo metu siūlomų įsigyti protingų namų sistemų, pastato valdymo ir automatizavimo sistemų apžvalga ir jose naudojamų standartų apžvalga ir trūkumai ir sistemų integracijos galimybės. Specifikacijoje apibrėžiamos protingo namo sistemos atliekamos funkcijos bei vartotojo atliekamos funkcijos. Sistemos funkciniai reikalavimai yra pateikiami naudojant UML diagramas. Pateikiami nefunkciniai reikalavimai, kuriuos turi atitikti sistema tam, kad ji būtų saugi ir veiktų korektiškai. Projektavimo dalyje pateikiama suprojektuota protingo namo sistemos struktūra, protingo namo sistemos serverio, valdiklio ir nuotolinio valdymo programinė įranga ir kompiuterių nuotolinio valdymo programinė įranga. Testavimo dalyje pateikiamas sistemos prototipo testavimas, kuris susideda tiek iš atskirų posistemių, tiek ir iš apjungtų sistemos posistemių testavimo. Taip pat pateikiami testavimo rezultatai. Eksperimento dalyje tiriamas įmonės, kuri įsikūrusi keturių aukštų pastate kompiuterių suvartojamos energijos kiekis ne darbo metu, ir bandoma pritaikyti suprojektuotą protingo namo sistemą įmonės kompiuterių valdymui – sumažinti kompiuterių suvartojamos energijos kiekį įmonės ne darbo metu. / The technologies are developing rapidly; however, an important issue, i.e. centralized control of home systems, still remains. This paper presents an analysis on of the tools designed for the automation of the home engineering services and systems, and centralized control. The analytical part is focused on reviewing the currently available smart home systems, building control and automation systems, the standards employed in such systems, their drawbacks and system integration possibilities. The specification defines the functions of the smart home systems and those of their users. The functional requirements of the system are visualized by employing UML use case diagrams. Also, non-functional requirements that the system must comply with to be safe and to operate adequately are presented. The design part of the paper presents the structure of a designed smart home system, the software for the smart home system server, controller, and remote control, and the computer remote control software. The testing part of the paper includes the testing of the software prototype which is comprised of both separate subsystem and connected subsystem testing. Also, the testing results are provided. The research part is focused on studying the energy consumed during non-working time by the computers of a company located in a four-storey building. Also, an attempt is made to apply the designed smart home system for the company’s computer control, i.e. to reduce the energy consumed by the... [to full text]

The elderly experience their health getting significantly deteriorated as they age. They suffer not only from chronic diseases but from various geriatric diseases such as high blood pressure, arthritis and cardiovascular disease. Their mental health also retreats creating challenges for the elderly from the loss of short term memory to dementia. Furthermore, after they retire, the elderly’s social network decreases as their social activities are inevitably limited to a small group of people like families and friends. With the face of such impairments in their physical, mental and social health, many elderly cannot help but are being institutionalized or sent to specialized places like nursing homes, which provide them professional care. However, a study indicates that most Americans prefer to stay in their homes as they get older since they can maintain their social connections to neighbors and friends, be close to their medical caregivers in town as well as attain emotional comfort and security with familiar surrounding and environments. On top of that, Americans of all ages value on keeping their ability of independence and autonomy by controlling their lives in general. Various health care-aid devices and services appear to offer specific support to health care activities for the elderly in their homes. However, such aids have more focused only on when the elderly’s health is degraded or on very specific areas such as tracking health data like blood pressure, blood sugar and calorie intakes. The elderly need comprehensive understanding about their health problems, healthy daily habits and timely interactions with their families and caregivers, in order to keep independent living safely in their places. Smart Home technology has much potential to support the elderly’s independent living as well as interactions with others. To better understand this, we conducted a user-centered design project which looks at the management of the elderly’s health enabled by Smart Home technology.