Action Recognition From Variable Viewpoints: Towards a safer living environment for elderly

The Dutch Central Bureau of Statistics expects the elderly population to grow from 2.4 million in 2012 to 4.7 million in 2041, putting intense pressure on health care budgets. As elderly get older and older, even more pressure on health care budgets will exist in the near future. Therefore, there is currently a focus on prevention: reduce...

Outsourcery: Simply extending home automation using plugins

HomeWizard B.V. is looking to expand the range of compatible TCP/IP devices for its home automation hub. To this end, the company wants to use third-party plugins that control these devices. To allow even people with little programming experience to make devices compatible with the HomeWizard hub, these plugins have to be easy to create. These...

A Smart Home – Analysis and Scheduling

In order to cope with various supply sources and loads in an autonomous micro-grid, a system of sensors and control units was developed. The goals were to cope efficiently in the event of an energy supply shortage, and to prevent such events as much as possible. To achieve these goals the aim was to manage energy in the system as efficiently as...

Rìchu & Rìluò: A light system for Chinese families

In the last decades the field of consumer electronics has gone through a revolutionary development and shows no sign of slowing down. Starting with one personal computer per family, electronic devices have become integrated into our daily lives to the point where everybody carries a smartphone and/or tablet with them at all times. And the next...

A flexible and personal domotica system for apartment buildings

This report describes the process and the results of an Industrial Design (DfI) graduation project which was carried out for Nspyre in Eindhoven. The project served as a demonstration on applying user centred design in a traditionally technology driven product domain: domotica (home automation). The assignment was to create a tablet-based...

User experience as a method for reducing consumption in domestic buildings

The thesis presents a use of a domestic building's automation system with a serious game embedded in it, as a method to motivate inhabitants to conserve resources.

Vergelijking van implementaties van low-power draadloze protocollen

Voor een home automation-systeem zijn vele draadloze implementaties beschikbaar. In deze thesis wordt onderzocht welke van de meestgebruikte implementaties van low-power draadloze protocollen het beste geschikt is voor de draadloze communicatie in een home automationsysteem. De implementaties die met elkaar worden vergeleken zijn Bluetooth,...