Faisal Razzak – Politecnico di Torino, e-Lite research groupFavetto Alain – Politecnico di Torino, IIT@POLITOYongkun SUN – Hokkaido University , Graduate School of Environment ScienceAxel Furlan – Università degli Studi di Milano – Bicocca, DISCO, IRALab

Introduction & Goals.

Scenario.

Proposed Solution.

Extended Scenarios.

Areas that need further Investigation.

Current State of Technology.

Conclusion.

At work– Staying active and productive longer

– Better quality of work and work-life balance

In the Community– Overcoming isolation and loneliness

– Keeping up social networks

At Home– Better quality of life for longer

– Independence, autonomy and dignity

Target persons:– Aged people.

– People which cannot move easily.

– People with physical disabilities.

Motivations:– Support independent living.

– Improve the quality of life.

– Improve the independency and autonomy.

– Minimal invasiveness.

1. Suppose an aged person is living in a house. With time, there is physical degradation in his/her health.

2. One morning in winter, he wakes up feeling a bit sick, but he needs to perform the mundane operations.

3. He needs to shut the heating system in the morning.

4. He needs to prepare coffee for himself as there is no one to assist him.

5. Suddenly, there is a bell on the door and the postman is there to deliver him the gifts sended by his grandchildrens.

6. Etc ...

7. Or in the evening, the aged person decide to switch on the lights of the upper floor, but his health does not allow him to walk up the stairs.

8. Etc ...

9. The previous scenario or the related scenarios require an aged person to perform tasks or operation inside his home and in normal circumstances he would require someone’s assistance.

10. BUT ...

He lives in a modern house equipped with centralized home automation system.

The walls of the house ( at different locations ) are marked with identifiers of different devices inside the house.

He from his current location inside house, opens his smart phone. He searches and selects the identifier of the main door or the coffee maker or the lamp upstairs and immediately all the option related to that device are shown and he executes the tasks from his current location.

The aged person has the option to take a snap of any identifier and immediately the control options of a device related to the identifier are shown.

He next performs the tasks.

Each device is marked with an unique tag.

Tags can be of different types (BarCode, QRCode, RFID, etc.).

This technology can also be applied to provide a general service, not only for aged people, not only at home.

Imagine, for example, you are wandering in the streets of a town. Suddenly you arrive at a monument, a museum or at a bus stop, each equipped with its own tag. You only have to read such tag with your smartphone and it will provide you information like:

• History of the monument• The current exposition at the museum• The time table and the current position of the bus

Internet of Things (IoT) + Domotics.

Internet of Things goal is to “Digitalize Objects (noun)”.

Domotics = Home Automation System.

Enabling mobile users to access semantic powered information about devices and to control devices in a ubiquitous manner, independently from any location dependence.

• The user has a mobile phone equipped with a camera and an enabled Internet connection and a mobile application.

• The mobile application decodes the visual tag, provides interface to authenticate users and to control domoticdevices.

• Every device is identified uniquely through a Universal Access ID (UAID). The UAID of a domotic device is encoded using visual tags like 2D Bar Codes.

• There exists a reference DNS domain assigned to all visual tags. For example, viztag.com.

1. The user opens the mobile application to performoperations.

2. The mobile application takes a snap shot of thevisual tag associated to the device and locatednearby.

3. The mobile application decodes the visual tag toextract the UAID of the device.

4. After getting the UAID, the mobile applicationdetermines the URL of the correct Controllerthrough a DNS query on a special domain.

5. The mobile application contacts the Controller and sendsthe user’s identity credentials .

6. The Controller forwards the authentication credentials toan external authentication service.

7. The authentication service informs the Controller about thevalidity of the user credentials.

8. If the user is authorized, the Controller returns

• the type, location and control information about thedevice

• list of operations associated with the device.

Mobile Interaction with Smart Environments through Linked DataF Razzak, D. Bonino, and F. CornoAccepted for publication on SMC 2010, 2010 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, October 10-13, 2010, Istanbul, Turkey

For Poster: http://www.slideshare.net/konware/web-of-domotics-poster

Human Machine Interface.

Context awareness

– Privacy

– Security

Massimo Paolucci, Matthias Wagner, EnricoRukzio, Albrecht Schmidt, Heinric HuBmanGregror Broll, "PERCI: Pervasive Service Interaction with the Internet of Things," IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 1089-7801/09, pp. 74-81, 2009.

G.Broll et al., "Supporting Mobile Service Usage through Physical Mobile Interaction," in 5th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing, 2007, pp. 262-271.

We highlight a possibility among many that the integration of technologies like IoT and Domotics, in a ubiqutious manner can help aged people become more autonomous, help them achieve better quality of life and independent living.

WoD provides minimal invasiveness by exploiting tags as compared to technologies like sensors or RFID.

To reach mentioned extended scenarios, it would require a collective effort from different sectors of society, which should help become society more integrated.

Faisal Razzak faisal.razzak@polito.it

Yongkun SUN sun@ees.hokudai.ac.jp

Alain Favetto alain.favetto@polito.it

Axel Furlan furlan@disco.unimib.it