Smart Home for Health and Elderly Care
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Communication and Informatics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2021) | Viewed by 3560
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
A smart home is considered as a living environment or a dwelling, where some comfortable, supportive, or convenient services are provided for its residents. Since the services should be provided according to the situation, the behavioral logs, or sometimes the mental state of the residents, they can be called context-aware services. The range of the services that smart homes aim to provide is so wide that it includes housework support, care support, multimedia service, automatic or remote home appliances and facilities monitoring and controlling, security and surveillance, and so on. Some of them were previously referred to as "home automation". Moreover, smart homes can be connected with a smart car or a smart city.
In recent years, progress of smart home technologies has been remarkable owing to the Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Namely, home appliances, facilities, sensors, as well as actuators or robots are connected through IoT, and they behave more intelligently and are smaller than ever before because of high performance microprocessors, large capacity storage, and sophisticated AI algorithms.
This Special Issue intends to provide an overview of the most recent advances in smart home technologies for health and elderly care. Research articles on this topic are invited from researchers and practitioners in this field.
Dr. Tatsuya Yamazaki
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Smart home technologies for health and elderly care
- Context-aware services
- IoT in a home environment
- Service implementation and evaluation
- Connection with a smart car and smart city
