IoT-Enabled Smart Living

Abstract

This book chapter is an extended version of (Kor et al., SMART-ITEM: IoT-Enabled Living. Proceedings of IEEE Future Technologies Conference 2016, San Francisco, 6–8 December, 2016). The main goal of this proposed project is to harness the emerging IoT technology to empower elderly population to self-manage their own health and stay active, healthy, and independent as long as possible within a smart and secured living environment. An integrated open-sourced IoT ecosystem will be developed. It will encompass the entire data life cycle which involves the following processes: data acquisition and data transportation; data integration, processing, manipulation, and computation; visualization; data intelligence and exploitation; data sharing; and data storage. This innovative cloud-based IoT ecosystem will provide a one-stop shop for integrated smart IoT-enabled services to support older people (greater or equal to 65 years old) who live alone at home (or care homes). Another innovation of this system is the design and implementation of an integrated IoT gateway for well-being wearable and home automation system sensors with varying communication protocols. The SMART-ITEM system and services will appropriately address the following: (i) smart health and care, (ii) smart quality of life, and (iii) SMART-ITEM social community. The development of the system will be based on the user-centered design methodology so as to ensure active user engagement throughout the entire project life cycle and necessary standards as well as compliances will be adhered to (e.g., security, trust, and privacy) in order to enhance user acceptance.