Smart Assisted Living : Toward an Open Smart-home Infrastructure

Smart Homes (SH) offer a promising approach to assisted living for the ageing population. Yet the main obstacle to the rapid development and deployment of Smart Home (SH) solutions essentially arises from the nature of the SH field, which is multidisciplinary and involves diverse applications and various stakeholders. Accordingly, an alternative to a one-size-fits-all approach is needed in order to advance the state of the art towards an open SH infrastructure.

This book makes a valuable and critical contribution to smart assisted living research through the development of new effective, integrated, and interoperable SH solutions. It focuses on four underlying aspects: (1) Sensing and Monitoring Technologies; (2) Context Interference and Behaviour Analysis; (3) Personalisation and Adaptive Interaction, and (4) Open Smart Home and Service Infrastructures, demonstrating how fundamental theories, models and algorithms can be exploited to solve real-world problems.

This comprehensive and timely book offers a unique and essential reference guide for policymakers, funding bodies, researchers, technology developers and managers, end users, carers, clinicians, healthcare service providers, educators and students, helping them adopt and implement smart assisted living systems.

Dr Feng Chen is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Computer Science and Informatics, De Montfort University.

Dr Rebeca I García-Betances is a Senior Researcher in the Life Supporting Technologies Group at the Technical University of Madrid.

Prof María Fernanda Cabrera-Umpiérrez is an Associate Professor at the Telecommunication School, Technical University of Madrid.

Prof Liming Chen is a Chair Professor of Computer Science at De Montfort University, where he leads the Context, Intelligence and Interaction Research Group (CIIRG).

Prof Chris Nugent is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Head of the School of Computing at Ulster University, where he also leads the Pervasive Computing Research Group and is Co-Principal Investigator at the Connected Health Innovation Centre.