Realization of ageing-friendly smart home system with computational intelligence

Abstract

To tackle a number of challenging difficulties in the coming aged society, we consider intelligent design of the residential space as a solution approach to realize "independence, social connectivity and maintained productivity" for older persons. We first review the contemporary technologies involved in constructing smart homes world-wide and then report our experiences of implementing a smart home with various automation subsystems along with robotic agents and health monitoring subsystem. For reduction of human intervention during home operation, long-term learning of human behavior is studied for continued service by robotic systems, for which a couple of computational intelligence-based algorithms are utilized. Then, we discuss some important issues on smart home systems for older persons including technical direction, role of computational intelligence techniques and design philosophy.