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Smart Homes

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Connected home; Intelligent home; Responsive home; Smart house

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The term “smart home” has been defined in various ways. A smart home is a concept represented by a dwelling equipped with communication networks, sensors, appliances, and devices that can be remotely monitored, accessed, or controlled and which provides services that respond to specific user needs (Balta-Ozkan et al. 2014). The purpose of those services, through the use of sensors, controls, and actuators, has primarily been in the cause of monitoring and affecting security, controlling temperature, humidity, air quality, and energy usage.

Gann et al. (1999), with an eye to a broader role that would support occupants, defined smart homes as “about using the latest information and communications technology to link all the mechanical and digital devices available and create a truly interactive house.” The authors pointed to such homes as not just those that were newly built and with an aim “not to...

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  1. Center for Design Research, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

    Matteo Zallio

  2. Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility, De Montfort University (DMU), Leicester, UK

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Zallio, M., Fisk, M.J. (2019). Smart Homes. In: Gu, D., Dupre, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69892-2_742-1

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