To enable smart home applications, embedding home monitoring systems with different
sensors can be a feasible remedy to capture the multimodal sensory information from daily …

From its early days the Internet of Things (IoT) has evolved into a decentralized system of
cooperating smart objects with the requirement, among others, of achieving distributed …

The kitchen environment is one of the scenarios in the home where users can benefit from
Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) applications. Moreover, it is the place where old people suffer …

Smart home is one of the most promising applications of the Internet of Things. Although
there have been studies about this technology in recent years, the adoption rate of smart …

A user centric approach to authentication for home networks is proposed. A zero-knowledge-
proof (ZKP) authentication is used to leverage the emerging cloud infrastructure allowing …

The recent evolution of mobile smart devices and their convergence with pervasive
computing and software as a service raises new challenges. Developers of applications …

Ambient Intelligence technologies have not yet been widely adopted in safety critical
scenarios. This principally has been due to fact that acceptable degrees of dependability …

The design and realization of health monitoring applications has attracted the interest of
large communities both from industry and academia. Several research challenges have …

There are many candidates for a communication infrastructure between the smart home
gateway and service providers, distribution centres or end-users accessing smart home …

Near Field Communication (NFC) is a two-way communication technology based on radio
frequency identification (RFID), which in recent years has become one of the most popular …