Ambient assisted living (AAL) is focused on providing assistance to people primarily in their
natural environment. Over the past decade, the AAL domain has evolved at a fast pace in …

Fall detection for elderly and patient is a very important service that has the potential of
increasing autonomy of elders while minimizing the risks of living alone. It has been an …

In this paper we have proposed and designed FindingHuMo (Finding Human Motion), a real-
time user tracking system for Smart Environments. FindingHuMo can perform device-free …

Robotic ecologies are networks of heterogeneous robotic devices pervasively embedded in
everyday environments, where they cooperate to perform complex tasks. While their …

Residential energy consumption has been rising rapidly during the last few decades.
Several research efforts have been made to reduce residential energy consumption …

Residential energy consumption is skyrocketing, as residential customers in the US alone
used 1.4 trillion kilowatt-hours in 2014 and the consumption is expected to increase in the …

One of the key applications of Smart Environment (which is deployed with anonymous
binary motion sensors [1, 2]) is user activity behavior analysis. The necessary prerequisite to …

Society is experiencing an ageing demographic, coupled with increasingly prevalent
Alzheimer and Dementia conditions, expected to cause explosive increases in healthcare …

The SMARTDISABLE project aims to provide persons with disability (PWD) the adequate
workplace environment in order to smartly access all objects, particularly the information and …

This thesis explores the capabilities of an ambient intelligence equipped with a load-sensing
floor. It deals with the problem of perceiving the environment through a network of low …