ELG 5121: Multimedia CommunicationsCourse Instructor: Prof. Dr. A. El Saddik

Project Presentation: Fall 2010

Md. Mahmud Hasan (Group No. 12)

Outline

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Introduction Smart Home System Current Scenarios Future Scenarios Research Challenges Concluding Remarks

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Introduction

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What is a Smart Home?“A dwelling incorporating a communications network that connects the key electrical appliances and services, and allows them to be remotely (both within the dwelling and outside of the dwelling) controlled, monitored or accessed.”[1]

Elements of a Smart Home: Communication network: wire/wireless/mixed. Intelligent control: system management. Home automation: relevant components and systems.

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Smart Home Environment: What does it do? It improves comfort level for the occupants. It senses situations through sensor network. It adapts with both variation of situation and occupants’ preferences. It ensures security and controlled access. It detects emergency situation and takes necessary actions. It assists the occupants with special needs. It reduces operational cost of a home.

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Major Areas of Application Home appliances: oven, fridge, … etc. Environment: lighting, HVAC, water,… etc. Health care: care for elderly and disable people. Entertainment: multimedia distribution. Security: person recognition, alarms, … etc. Information and communication: telephone, internet.

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Smart Home System

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Typical example of a smart home environment [2, 3].

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Typical architecture for smart home system [4].

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Candidate Networking Technologies:Power Line (Example: X-10, HomePlug, …) Low installation cost. Only suitable for fixed application.

Wireless (Example: Bluetooth, Zigbee, …) Higher installation cost. Suitable for both mobile and fixed applications.

Current Scenarios

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Smart home applications for home appliances and environment are used for a long time. In Europe, power line technology (PLT) based implementations of smart home are more popular. There are numerous projects in industry and academia to focus on smart home research and development.

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It is drawing much attention in the area of health care. It is considered as a promising solution for patient monitoring, therapy delivering, and supporting disable persons [5]. The scope of smart home is expanding day by day. New implications are added continuously. Some industrial projects are devised to combine smart home with green energy [6]. It will reduce electricity consumption. It is widely used for security, surveillance, and safety [7].

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A good number of smart home multimedia products are available in market [8, 9]. Example: mirror TV.

Mirror TV

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Personal assistant robot

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Integration with Tele-presence and Haptics

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Integration with e-learning

Research Issues

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Integration and interoperability: smart Integration and interoperability: smart home will be integrated with different kind home will be integrated with different kind of technologies to meet future demand.of technologies to meet future demand.

Privacy and secrecy: as smart home is Privacy and secrecy: as smart home is connected to Internet. connected to Internet.

System complexity: various kind of System complexity: various kind of networks exist within a smart home networks exist within a smart home environment. For example wireless sensor environment. For example wireless sensor network and body area network (BAN).network and body area network (BAN).

Cost effectiveness. Cost effectiveness.

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Bandwidth management: in future, Bandwidth management: in future, Internet traffic intensity will be increased Internet traffic intensity will be increased severely due to smart home applications.severely due to smart home applications.

Protocol issues: new communication Protocol issues: new communication protocols are required to exchange protocols are required to exchange information with heterogeneous type of information with heterogeneous type of networks. networks.

Social impact: Smart home may have some Social impact: Smart home may have some impacts society. For example some people impacts society. For example some people might be isolated from society.might be isolated from society.

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Concluding Remarks

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Smart home deals with multiple aspects of Smart home deals with multiple aspects of life. Therefore, human perception is life. Therefore, human perception is important for smart home environment. important for smart home environment.

There is no worldwide acceptable There is no worldwide acceptable standards for smart home standards for smart home implementations.implementations.

It is not necessary to implement all the It is not necessary to implement all the features of smart home in every home. It features of smart home in every home. It should be implemented based on should be implemented based on occupants’ need. occupants’ need.

Smart home is a user friendly technology.Smart home is a user friendly technology.ELG 5121 Md Mahmud Hasan

References

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[1] Smart home a definition: http://www.its-rtc.com[2] J. Cheng and T. Kunz, “A Survey on Smart Home Networking,” TR-SCE-0910, Carleton University, Sept. 2009.[3] www.andproperties.com/smarthouse[4] L. Ngo, “Service-oriented Architecture for Home Networks,” TKK T-110.5190 Seminar on Internetworking, 2007.[5] M. Chan, D. Esteve, C. Escriba, E. Campo, “A Review of Smart Homes- Present State and Future Challenges,” Elsevier Journal of Comp. Met. and Prog. in Biom. Issuse 9, 2008, pp. 55-81. [6] www.smartideas.com[7] M. Seaman, “Modelling and Implementation of Smart Homes,” NCL EECE MSD TR-2009-148, New Castle University, 2009. [8] www.platinumTV.co.uk[9] www.smarthouseuae.com[10] www.dom-iris.si

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Questions???Thank you!Thank you!