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- IoH: A Platform for the Intelligence of Home with a Context Awareness and Ambient Intelligence ApproachPublication . Gomes, Luis; Ramos, Carlos; Jozi, Aria; Serra, Bruno; Paiva, Lucas; Vale, ZitaThis paper presents IoH (Intelligence of Home), a platform developed to test some basic intelligent behaviors in Home context. Internet of Things, ambient intelligence and context awareness approaches motivated the development of IoH. The platform involves six layers, responsible by connectivity, persistency, unification, Internet of Things integration, subsystems integration and user interface. The integrated subsystems involve intelligent systems for light control, television brightness control, desk light control, persons counting and air conditioner control. The IoH platform is then tested for a real building, and results and conclusions are obtained. Different intelligent methods and technologies are used, form the use of a diversity of sensors, actuators, and controllers and processing units to a set of artificial intelligence approaches varying from machine learning and optimization algorithms to the use of sensor fusion and computer vision. The use of IoH day-by-day demonstrated an intelligent performance for the real building occupants.
- Lightweight Architecture for IoT Devices with Context-aware Autonomous ControlPublication . Serra, Bruno; Gomes, Luis; Vale, ZitaThe integration of the Internet of Things (IoT) devices in our buildings is already a reality and the dissemination of such devices would grow in the future. However, much of these devices deal with remote monitoring and/or control without an intrinsic context-aware control. This paper proposes hardware and software architectures for the development of IoT devices with context-aware autonomous control. The efficient and effective control, of the proposed architectures, is demonstrated using two scenarios where one television and one air conditioner unit are controlled according to their contexts. The context-aware control can increase users’ comfort while decreases the use of appliances and resources, resulting in a decrease in energy consumption.