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What is Ubiquitous Home

Chapter 9
Handbook of Research on Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments: Trends and Perspectives
A smart home built by NICT (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology), a Japanese research institute. Ubiquitous Home is located inside the building of NICT and perfectly emulates a residential apartment. Ubiquitous Home is equipped with various types of sensors, network infrastructures and networked appliances. Real-life experiments were conducted and a part of collected data are open to be shared for an academic purpose.
Published in Chapter:
Assistive Technologies in Smart Homes
Tatsuya Yamazaki (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan)
Copyright: © 2011 |Pages: 17
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61692-857-5.ch009
Abstract
This book chapter provides a review of the assistive technologies deployed in smart spaces with a variety of smart home or house examples. In the first place, home networking technologies and sensing technologies are surveyed as fundamental technologies to support smart environment. After reviewing representative smart home projects from across the world, concrete assistive services related with the fundamental technologies in smart environment are deployed not only for the elderly and handicapped but for people in ordinary families as well. Adaptability is one of the key essences in the assistive technologies in smart environment and, for this purpose, human-ware studies including man-machine interfaces, ergonomics and gerontology are needed to be linked with the hardware specific fundamental technologies.
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