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SPHERE: A Sensor Platform for Healthcare in a Residential Environment

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It can be tempting to think about smart homes like one thinks about smart cities. On the surface, smart homes and smart cities comprise coherent systems enabled by similar sensing and interactive technologies. It can also be argued that both are broadly underpinned by shared goals of sustainable development, inclusive user engagement and improved service delivery. However, the home possesses unique characteristics that must be considered in order to develop effective smart home systems that are adopted in the real world [37].

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This work was performed under the SPHERE IRC, funded by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Grant EP/K031910/1.

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    Przemyslaw Woznowski, Alison Burrows, Tom Diethe, Xenofon Fafoutis, Jake Hall, Sion Hannuna, Massimo Camplani, Niall Twomey, Michal Kozlowski, Bo Tan, Ni Zhu, Atis Elsts, Antonis Vafeas, Adeline Paiement, Lili Tao, Majid Mirmehdi, Tilo Burghardt, Dima Damen, Peter Flach, Robert Piechocki, Ian Craddock & George Oikonomou

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Woznowski, P. et al. (2017). SPHERE: A Sensor Platform for Healthcare in a Residential Environment. In: Angelakis, V., Tragos, E., Pöhls, H., Kapovits, A., Bassi, A. (eds) Designing, Developing, and Facilitating Smart Cities. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44924-1_14

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