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- Title
Development of a smart home simulator for use as a heuristic tool for management of sensor distribution.
- Authors
Poland, Michael P.; Nugent, Chris D.; Hui Wang; Liming Chen
- Abstract
Smart Homes offer potential solutions for various forms of independent living for the elderly. The assistive and protective environment afforded by smart homes offer a safe, relatively inexpensive, dependable and viable alternative to vulnerable inhabitants. Nevertheless, the success of a smart home rests upon the quality of information its decision support system receives and this in turn places great importance on the issue of correct sensor deployment. In this article we present a software tool that has been developed to address the elusive issue of sensor distribution within smart homes. Details of the tool will be presented and it will be shown how it can be used to emulate any real world environment whereby virtual sensor distributions can be rapidly implemented and assessed without the requirement for physical deployment for evaluation. As such, this approach offers the potential of tailoring sensor distributions to the specific needs of a patient in a non-evasive manner. The heuristics based tool presented here has been developed as the first part of a three stage project.
- Subjects
HOME automation; DECISION support systems; HEURISTIC programming; EXPERT systems; TELEMATICS; MANAGEMENT information systems
- Publication
Technology & Health Care, 2009, Vol 17, Issue 3, p171
- ISSN
0928-7329
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3233/THC-2009-0550