Digital home technologies and transformation of households

International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology, 2021

The giant network and applications offered by a device tiny enough to be called "Dust", has revolutionized the way we live our lives. IoT has gained rapid access and application in a wide spectrum of applications ranging from a heart monitoring device to a sensor in hazardous factory locations saving lives further leaping on to home automation & managing vehicles on roads. Home automation has seen an increased usage in developed countries as most homes are equipped and controlled through IoT. The Internet of Things is a huge network of associated things and individuals all of which gather and share data about the manner in which they are utilized and about the environment around them. In today's modern technological era IOT has gained much admiration and is evolving at a very high pace. This paper lays out an idea of creating an IOT based Home Automation system. It illustrates the use of various hardware devices such as Arduino Uno, ESP8266 NodeMCU and some sensors along with software applications like the google firebase which is a realtime database to create a completely functional smart home. This project proposes a system where the home appliances can be controlled from the user's mobile application via the internet from any part of the world while other minor devices and their tasks are fully automated by the system. It even integrates voice commands to the system using Google's Voice Assistant system. The paper presents a very simple and cost effective system that can be easily implemented in any household.

2022 BEA Poster Presentation, 2022

This book-length research project looks out how the introduction and continual development of media and communication technologies have led to changes in the design and use of the American home. The story starts with the introductions of the telephone and the phonograph at the end of the 19th century and continues as the radio, television, personal computer, Internet, and other related technologies took their place in the American home. The book traces each technology as it finds its way into the home and as its place in the home evolves over time. Along the way, the book examines how the technology changed the home, both from an interior design perspective and from an architectural perspective. This poster presents major themes from the book. Metho A multifaceted approach was used to explore media in the home. Research focused on several key players:

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Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 2003

The purpose of the Smart Home Project is to devise a set of intelligent home appliances that can provide an awareness of the users' needs, providing them with a better home life experience without overpowering them with complex technologies and intuitive user interfaces. Our main aim for the project is to improve day-to-day home life with smart computer technologies while still keeping the home life as normal as possible -we refer to this as ''digitally engineering analogue home life''.

Cognition, Technology & Work, 2003

2001

In this paper we present a unique research programme we have developed for understanding the everyday nature of the domestic legacy in order to inform technological development. Our approach extends previous work on Architectural Patterns [1, 2, 4, 9, 15, 18] It provides a ...

Science As Culture, 1988

Handbook of Smart Homes, Health Care and Well-Being, 2015

This chapter provides an introduction into the current state of acceptance of smart home technology and its history. It starts with examining four stages of domestic technology, the current situation and the future of smart home technology. This chapter aims to apply concepts from literature on the diffusion of innovation on the past, present and future of smart home technology. Lastly, this chapter examines the analogies between technology adoption discussed in the first three stages of domestic technology with the present and future situation of home automation and robotics.

2011

Faced by rising demand for health and social care at the same time as growing constraints on available resources, governments and healthcare providers in many countries are turning towards information and communications technology (ICT) to help support and enhance existing care services. Various technologies associated with the remote monitoring and support of people in need of care -sensors, information processing, user interfaces -are developing rapidly and costs are falling. Care service providers, and technology and infrastructure suppliers, are increasingly seeing new market opportunities for home-based care and support and monitoring services. In the UK the basic community alarm service for elderly people is evolving into a home and personal monitoring system. The realization that this can contribute towards the modernization of care services has moved the concept of 'remote care' -often known as 'telecare', 'telehealth' or 'telemedicine' -up the policy agenda.

Homes are essential contexts in which to understand how technologies are used and experienced. At the same time they hold substantial challenges for conducting research, exploring novel designs, and building understanding. In this paper we review approaches to studying the home, including recent innovations and issues that should guide further methodological reflection. We draw on the expertise of a large number of researchers experienced in studying technology in the home, who have formed a community to map the space of methods in use and share their experiences of the key issues faced in practice. Themes include utilising new technology as a source of data as well as an object of study, creating representations of home life that support discussion and reflection, revealing details of important yet routine or mundane activities, and supporting participation to overcome the complex ethical and privacy concerns inherent in the study of the home.