Situation-Aware Framework for Energy Saving in Unattended Activities of Daily Living in Smart Home Environments

Richard O. Oyeleke, Pranav Parekh, Sophia DiCuffa, Andrew Quinlan

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    Abstract

    Activities of daily living (ADLs) are basic self-care tasks that are necessary for independent living. It is also used to assess aging adults’ functional ability. As people age, they experience impaired awareness, which affects their reasoning, cognitive ability, and consequently impedes their ability to manage or supervise ADLs successfully. Impaired awareness has a potential economic impact on aging adults. For example, recent studies have shown that aging adults with impaired awareness use more energy in homes due to deviation from normal execution of ADLs. This often results in incompletely executed ADLs which are left unattended or unsupervised. Unsupervised ADLs involving appliances with high wattage ratings (e.g., TV, air conditioner) can lead to an increase in the cost of home energy services used by aging adults who desire to age-in-place. Thus, in this paper, we propose a situation-aware framework that leverages a smart home resident's context information with respect to unattended ADLs in mitigating increased energy consumptions in smart home environments.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationDigital Health Transformation, Smart Ageing, and Managing Disability - 20th International Conference, ICOST 2023, Proceedings
    EditorsKim Jongbae, Lee Seungbok, Mounir Mokhtari, Hamdi Aloulou, Bessam Abdulrazak
    Pages38-50
    Number of pages13
    DOIs
    StatePublished - 2023
    Event20th International Conference on Smart Living and Public Health, ICOST 2023 - Wonju, Korea, Republic of
    Duration: 7 Jul 20238 Jul 2023

    Publication series

    NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
    Volume14237 LNCS
    ISSN (Print)0302-9743
    ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

    Conference

    Conference20th International Conference on Smart Living and Public Health, ICOST 2023
    Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
    CityWonju
    Period7/07/238/07/23

    Keywords

    • ADLs
    • Smart home
    • aging adult
    • aging-in-place
    • internet of things (IoT)
    • machine learning
    • situation awareness

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