A Quantitative Research to Decide the User Requirements for the i-Light System

i-Light is a home-monitoring system that enables a pervasive, seamless, and inexpensive monitoring scheme. It is researched and implemented as part of a European Union funded project and it will achieve pervasive monitoring by means of a novel energy efficient luminaire equipped with an embedded sensing, indoor localization and communications electronic system, luminaire that is developed as part of the project. This report is based on a survey with respect to the usage of intelligent luminaires indoors. The purpose of this paper is to determine the interest of population in a new type of product, and to identify the requirements that satisfy the needs of the end users. This product will interact with many third-party devices in the healthcare and wellness sectors, enabling plug-and-play interoperability just out-of-the-box. i-Light is envisioned as an ambient assisted living system, thus, it will continuously monitor environmental conditions and supervised persons' daily activities and send alerts to caregivers, in case of potentially dangerous situations.