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LIPSHOK: LIARA Portable Smart Home Kit.
Kévin Chapron1, Florentin Thullier1, Patrick Lapointe1
1Laboratoire d'Intelligence Ambiante pour la Reconnaissance d'Activités, Département d'Informatique et de Mathématiques, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 555 Bd. de l'Université, Saguenay, QC G7H 2B1, Canada.
This paper introduces the LIARA Portable Smart Home Kit (LIPSHOK), an affordable and extensible smart home solution. LIPSHOK offers a modular infrastructure for diverse sensors, overcoming limitations of existing smart home kits.
Area of Science:
- Computer Science
- Electrical Engineering
- Ubiquitous Computing
Background:
- Smart home architectures often face challenges with high costs, proprietary hardware, and complex deployment.
- Existing 'smart homes in a box' (SHiB) solutions can be limited in hardware support and sensor/actuator variety.
Purpose of the Study:
- To introduce the LIARA Portable Smart Home Kit (LIPSHOK) as an affordable, user-installable smart home solution.
- To present a modular architecture capable of integrating diverse sensor technologies for enhanced ambient intelligence.
Main Methods:
- Development of the LIPSHOK kit, incorporating four specialized sensor modules.
- Design of a common modular infrastructure to manage heterogeneous technologies within the smart home environment.
- Comparative analysis against existing SHiB kits.
Main Results:
- LIPSHOK provides an affordable and easily deployable smart home solution.
- The kit integrates specialized sensors within a unified, modular framework.
- LIPSHOK demonstrates greater affordability, extensibility, and scalability compared to current SHiB offerings.
Conclusions:
- LIPSHOK addresses the limitations of current smart home kits, offering a more accessible and versatile option.
- The open-source nature of LIPSHOK promotes wider adoption and customization.
- This portable smart home kit facilitates the implementation of ambient intelligence in existing residences.
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