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An Ecological View of Smart Home Technologies

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Ambient Intelligence (AmI 2015)

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In this paper we propose an ecological view in which a smart home is seen as an interconnected collection of smart objects that work together to provide services to inhabitants. We review home technologies in a historical context in which the home is a personal habitat that provides services to inhabitants, and draw lessons from the profusion of new services that were made possible by the introduction of electricity in the home during the 20th century. We examine possible metaphors for smart homes, including the smart home as an inside-out autonomous robot, and the smart home as an ecosystem of smart objects providing services. We propose a taxonomy for smart home services and discuss examples for each class of service. We conclude with a discussion of required system qualities and potential show-stoppers.

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Acknowledgement

This work and ideas reported in this paper have been partially sponsored by the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR), program “Investissement d’Avenir” project reference ANR-11-EQPX-0002, Amiqual4Home.

Funding has also been received from the European program CATRENE project AppsGate (CA110) as well as EIT-ICTLabs Smart Energy Systems Activity 11831, Open SES Experience Labs for Prosumers and New Services. Special thanks to Pascal Estrallier and the DGRI Working group on Ambient Intelligence for support and encouragement.

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  1. INRIA Grenoble Rhone-Alpes Research Center, Université Grenoble Alpes, 38000, Grenoble, France

    James L. Crowley

  2. Laboratoire Informatique de Grenoble (LIG), Université Grenoble Alpes, 38000, Grenoble, France

    James L. Crowley & Joelle Coutaz

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  2. Hellenic Open University, Patras, Greece

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  3. Institute of Thessaloniki, Alexander Technological Educational, Sindos, Greece

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  4. Hellenic Open University, Patras, Greece

    Irene Mavrommati

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Crowley, J.L., Coutaz, J. (2015). An Ecological View of Smart Home Technologies. In: De Ruyter, B., Kameas, A., Chatzimisios, P., Mavrommati, I. (eds) Ambient Intelligence. AmI 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9425. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26005-1_1

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