In the era of information technology, the elderly and disabled can be monitored with
numerous intelligent devices. Sensors can be implanted into their home for continuous …

Considerable research has been conducted on smart services and technologies over the
past decades, and the realization of smart environments has been one of the important …

Today elderly people are the fastest growing segment of the population in developed
countries, and they desire to live as independently as possible. But independent lifestyles …

Smart homes have been predominantly pointed as one of the key constituents of intelligent
environments. These are residential units substantially integrated with a communicating …

Surveillance applications in private environments such as smart houses require a privacy
management policy if such systems are to be accepted by the occupants of the environment …

With growing aging population, elderly with physical or cognitive impairments may end up
staying alone at home. Kitchen is generally the most vulnerable place at home as …

Improvement of life quality in the developed nations has systematically generated an
increase in the life expectancy. A statistic studies curried out by the French national institute …

The paper depicts the metrology as a vivid fundamental science with implications for
possible applications in various engineering fields. This depiction uses the energy efficient …

La réalisation de systèmes complexes de mesures, de contrôle et de surveillance nécessite
une méthodologie de conception rigoureuse et des outils adaptés pour aboutir à un système …

Fuzzy inference has been proven a candidate technology for context recognition systems. In
comparison to probability theory, its advantage is its more natural mapping of phenomena of …