A great deal of contemporary research is showing that it is not work that goes
home but home that goes to work. I would like to write my thesis about smart
home possibilities (theoretically), which are available, or proposed to the
market. Then I would like to make a business plan for hypothetical company
which wants to arrive to the market with smart homes development. Finally, I
would like to design (practically) part of smart home according to available
technologies. I am more considered in the SW part of the problem, but I want to
use real hardware if it would be possible rather then the simulator.
The SW should be portable written in JAVA, developed on LINUX ( better
hardware support ). It should be able to manage all smart home interfaces and
extensible. Brain of the system should be Neural Network, which should be
able to learn automatically the inhabitants behaviour and help them in their
everyday routine. Make them disappear and you have succeeded.
For example, if system finds out that some switch is turning on every time after
doors are open, it will turn it on automatically. But it should consult his
decisions in the beginning t avoid collisions with human decision (according to
Asimov rules :) These shall avoid starting mixer while nothing in there, or even
turning lights on when nobody is at home ( only if it is necessary according to
security policies).
The system shall communicate throw the network, which could be wired, or
wireless. I search the technologies available and found some of them but I will
need to decide which one to use. I prefer the "over power lines" transmitting
because it is less expensive in real houses, but may be it's possible to use
bluetooth or wi-fi as well.
