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Enabling Smart Homes Through Health Informatics and Internet of Things for Enhanced Living Environments

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As people spend most of their time inside buildings, indoor environment quality must be monitored in real-time for enhanced living environments and occupational health. Indoor environmental quality assessment is based on the satisfaction of the thermal, sound, light and air quality conditions. The indoor quality patterns can be directly used to promote health and well-being. With the proliferation of the Internet of Things related technologies, smart homes must incorporate monitoring solutions for data acquisition, transmission, and microsensors for several real-time monitoring activities. This paper presents a low-cost and scalable multi-sensor smart home solution based on Internet of Things for enhanced indoor quality considering acoustic, thermal and luminous comfort. The proposed system incorporates three sensor modules for data collection and use Wi-Fi communication technology for Internet access. The system has been developed using open-source and mobile computing technologies for real-time data visualization and analytics. The acquisition modules incorporate light intensity and colour temperature, particulate matter, formaldehyde, relative humidity, ambient temperature and sound sensor capabilities. The results have successfully validated the scalability, reliability and easy installation of the proposed system.

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  1. Instituto de Telecomunicações, Universidade da Beira Interior, 6201-001, Covilhã, Portugal

    Gonçalo Marques

  2. Polytechnic Institute of Guarda, 6300-559, Guarda, Portugal

    Gonçalo Marques & Rui Pitarma

  3. CISE - Electromechatronic Systems Research Centre, Universidade da Beira Interior, 6201-001, Covilhã, Portugal

    Rui Pitarma

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  1. Departamento de Engenharia Informática, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Álvaro Rocha

  2. College of Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

    Hojjat Adeli

  3. FEUP, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Luís Paulo Reis

  4. DIMES, Università della Calabria, Arcavacata, Italy

    Sandra Costanzo

  5. Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Montenegro, Podgorica, Montenegro

    Irena Orovic

  6. Universidade Portucalense, Porto, Portugal

    Fernando Moreira

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Marques, G., Pitarma, R. (2020). Enabling Smart Homes Through Health Informatics and Internet of Things for Enhanced Living Environments. In: Rocha, Á., Adeli, H., Reis, L., Costanzo, S., Orovic, I., Moreira, F. (eds) Trends and Innovations in Information Systems and Technologies. WorldCIST 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1161. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45697-9_8

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