Domots are coming ! or How to manage building automation in a balanced way ?

One goal of the presented works is the development and exploitation of a building infrastructure allowing integration of services and activities. Two approaches coexist, related with the automatic versus anthropocentric issues. In one hand (the automatic way), activities inside buildings could be more organised, optimised, efficiently controlled and less expensive if a set of complementary infrastructures is available, acting in a cooperative way and enabling new specific functionality implementation. In the other hand, the anthropocentric view stresses the dependency on the occupant needs and wishes.