Ambient intelligence is an emerging discipline that brings intelligence to our everyday
environments and makes those environments sensitive to us. Ambient intelligence (AmI) …

Given restrictions that comfort conditions in the interior of a building are satisfied, it becomes
obvious that the problem of energy conservation is a multidimensional one. Scientists from a …

In this paper, we have reported an effective implementation for Internet of Things used for
monitoring regular domestic conditions by means of low cost ubiquitous sensing system …

Big Data has significant impact in developing functional smart cities and supporting modern
societies. In this paper, we investigate the importance of Big Data in modern life and …

At present, the domotization of homes and public buildings is becoming increasingly
popular. Domotization is most commonly applied to the field of energy management, since it …

Buildings are responsible for 40% of global energy use and contribute towards 30% of the
total CO2 emissions. The drive to reduce energy use and associated greenhouse gas …

The machine learning and pervasive sensing technologies found in smart homes offer
unprecedented opportunities for providing health monitoring and assistance to individuals …

Plan recognition, activity recognition, and intent recognition together combine and unify
techniques from user modeling, machine vision, intelligent user interfaces, human/computer …

Advancements in supporting fields have increased the likelihood that smart-home
technologies will become part of our everyday environments. However, many of these …

In this paper we take a look at the state of the art in smart environments research. The survey
is motivated by the recent dramatic increase of activity in the field, and summarizes work in a …