Abstract
As part of resolving the issue related to super-aging society, various information systems for the elderly care have been developed utilizing cognitive sensor networks. However, many sensor network-based systems cognizing radios, resources, environments, and so forth are not practically feasible and useful for the elderly themselves. Therefore, this paper tries to propose novel research directions for designing smart residential environment for the elderly in terms of converging information technologies including cognitive sensor networks and architectural design. In this paper, we clarify the definition of smart home from the literatures and briefly surveys cognitive sensor network-based systems for smart elderly housing. After that, this paper proposes research directions for cognitive wireless sensor networks not only for the elderly smart home services, but also for cooperating with architecture technologies. The proposed directions are to utilize cognitive radio technologies, to classify sensor network technologies according to the types of the elderly, to expand sensor networks services for the elderly housing to the wider area such as blocking unnecessary energy loss, to embed sensor network modules into BIM system, and to research sensor networks fit to modular construction.
Highlights
As information technologies (ITs) have rapidly been updated and evolved, things and environments around our societies have been rapidly changed
Summarizing the studies examined in the previous section are as follows: (i) Most of IT services for smart elderly housing are based on sensor networks targeting at one specific function such as health monitoring or fall detection or security and they are based on one type of network
Even though we propose the method mentioned in this subsection for the elderly housing, this proposed idea can be applied to any other house/building design process to obtain similar benefits
Summary
As information technologies (ITs) have rapidly been updated and evolved, things and environments around our societies have been rapidly changed. Even though the elderly and health professionals consider smart home technologies to be beneficial [5] and many services and systems for the elderly’s housing have been designed and developed, there are many issues to be resolved such as privacy, cost, and feasibilities. This paper provides some idea to effective architecture design process for the elderly housing by converging cognitive sensor network technologies with architecture engineering. We have investigated the emerging technologies in a smart home
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