Various smart services and technologies have been developed to support older adults' well-
ness, make their daily tasks easier, and enhance their overall quality of life. When people …

This research explores current strategies and approaches directed to integrate innovative
technologies in the home modification process to support independent living and ageing in …

A growing global population of older adults is potential consumers of a category of products
referred to as smart technologies, but also known as telehealth, telecare, information and …

This paper focuses on the design and verification methods of distributed logic controllers
supervising real-life processes. Such systems have to be designed very carefully and …

China's rapidly aging population and shortage of care resources have made it difficult for its
traditional model to meet the home care needs of the elderly. On this premise, China is …

Since architect Nicholas Negroponte first proposed a vision of responsive architecture smart
environments have been widely investigated, especially in the fields of computer science …

Spanning the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries, this book investigates how home is
imagined, staged and experienced in western culture. Questions about meanings of …

The penetration of smart homes into households in South Korea is fast growing and is
predicted to reach a domestic market value of up to seven billion US dollars by 2026 …

Housing and neighbourhoods have an important contribution to make to our wellbeing and
our sense of our place in the world. This book, written for a lay audience (with policy makers …

This paper aims to analyze the business types of 237 IoT based smart home companies in
the world (launched during 1999~ 2014) which got global investment last few years. For this …