Recommending and Configuring Smart Home Installations

In this paper the Casa Vecchia smart home planning and configuration system is presented. This knowledge-based application was developed with the goal to support inhabitants of private households in the technical enhancement of their homes. The Casa Vecchia project, in the context of which the presented system was developed, was a longitudinal field study in the research area of active and assisted living (AAL). In a four years period 20 households of elderly people in the rural area of Carinthia, Austria were equipped with smart home technology and the inhabitants’ experiences with the technology were researched. Results from the project with regard to needs and requirements for household smartness motivated the development of the system presented in this paper. The system is consisting of a recommender component which demonstrates the possibilities and benefits of smart home technology on a general level, and a configurator component which is able to deal with specific characteristics of living environments allowing for an individual and custom design of smart home systems.

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