Smart Houses
House environments are an area where the continual progress of technology will be easily noticeable. In the modern times, the families have less and less time to spend with each other. In typical family both husband and wife work full time. Often there is a need to work overtime and there are different duties that people have to do after work. This results in the tendency that people return home tired and their free time they spent mostly on doing different house keeping activities. This creates a great need for the technological improvements in the house-keeping activities that could make them easier, less time consuming or sometimes even to relieve people from doing those activities.
On this web site the technologies of Smart Houses are addressed. Different information about the types of houses, their functionalities and technologies are presented. Additionally a small prototype for creating the Smart House simulations is linked and described.
Taxonomy of Smart Houses
There is no single meaning of the term Smart Houses. Hence there is a need to categorise the Smart Houses. Such taxonomy is presented and described on a page at the following link.
Intelligent House Scenarios
This website focuses on a particular group of Smart Houses – Intelligent Houses. Our definition of intelligent houses is presented along with some animations that illustrate different scenarios of intelligent house technology.
Key Technologies for Intelligent House Implementations
Building intelligent houses integrates different information and communication technologies. We examine some of the key technologies.
Smart House Projects
Smart house research is extremely active and many projects are carried out by both industry and universities. This research focus on many different aspects of smart house technology and we have decided to present a few projects that we find particularly interesting.