Home automation as a means of independent living

IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-8

  Nugent, Chris D ^a   Finlay, Dewar D ^a   Fiorini, Paolo ^b   Tsumaki, Yuichi ^c   Prassler, Erwin ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^c HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d University of Applied Science   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; AUTOMATION; DOMESTIC APPLIANCES; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; SENSOR NETWORKS;

HOME AUTOMATION; INTELLIGENT HOMES; SECURITY FUNCTIONALITY;

UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

EID: 38149139596     PISSN: 15455955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASE.2007.912247     Document Type: Review

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