Background: Monitoring the lifestyles of older adults helps promote independent living and
ensure their well-being. The common technologies for home monitoring include wearables …

Population ageing is becoming a key social issue in recent decades, particularly in Western
countries, where this fact, together with the increase of life expectancy, has posed a …

Supporting the elderly to maintain their independence, safety, and well-being through Active
Assisted Living (AAL) technologies, is gaining increasing momentum. Recently, Non …

The smart grid initiative has encouraged utility companies worldwide to roll-out new and
smarter versions of energy meters. Before an extensive roll-out, which is both labor-intensive …

The ageing of the population has raised the interest in homecare monitoring systems and
assisted living in recent years. Most studies pursue non-intrusiveness and scalability to meet …

The key advantage of power utility-owned smart meters over rotating-disc meters is the
ability of transmitting electrical energy consumption data to power utilities' remote data …

Detailed information on individual appliance consumption is beneficial for improving energy
efficiency and managing demand response. Nonintrusive load monitoring (NILM) aims to …

The boom of in-home monitoring technology offers unprecedented information about an
individual's interaction with the environment. A variety of low cost sensors can continuously …

Smart meters provide us new information to visualize, analyze, and optimize the energy
consumption of buildings, to enable demand-response optimizations, and to identify the …

Activity detection is crucial in enabling ambient assisted living (AAL). In this paper, we
propose the usage of room-based energy disaggregation for activity detection in AAL …