SMART CITY & SMART HOME

Intelligent Human-Computer Interactions

IoT – Internet of Things

• IoT devices (Sensors and Actuators)

• Dynamic global network infrastructure with self-configuring capabilities

• things can interact and communicate with each other

• react autonomously to events generally without direct human

intervention

• Goal: Make the everyday life better

• Internet revolution: interconnection between people

• Next revolution will be the interconnection between things

https://www.gartner.com/technology/research/hype-cycles/

IoT Hype

• Wireless Sensor

Networks

(WSN)

• Cheaper

• Smaller

• Low energy

IoT Hype

• 30 billion devices always online

• more than 200 billion devices discontinuously online

• by 2020

J. Mahoney and H. LeHong, The Internet of Things is coming, Gartner report.

Online: https://www.gartner.com/doc/1799626/internet-things-coming, September 2011.

Jayavardhana Gubbi, Rajkumar Buyya, Slaven Marusic, Marimuthu Palaniswami: Internet of Things (IoT): A vision, architectural elements, and future directions

Context Sensors

Network Participants

Smart City

Problems to solve:

• Traffic

• Traffic control

• Parking

• Trash

• Resource management

• Water

• Electricity

• …

Many applications/use cases (problems to solve)

Not distinct projects, but connected (data sharing)

Smart City - City Brain

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has launched its traffic management

service, ‘City Brain’, in Kuala Lumpur. The service uses cloud computing

and machine learning to minimise congestion on the city’s roads.

300 traffic lights,

500 CCTV cameras,

public transport systems

and other streams

Calculating the fastest and least disruptive route for an ambulance through

the city

Average traffic speed increase of 15 per cent, and reporting traffic

violations with 92 per cent accuracy

https://www.alibabacloud.com/press-room/alibaba-cloud-launches-malaysia-city-brain-to-enhance-city-management

Smart City - SmartPile

The SmartPile system is an interesting

solutions for monitoring the condition

and quality of the concrete in building

constuctions. It offers wireless devices

to be built in the concrete and later

gives information during curing (e.g.

core and skin temperature and

compression strain), transport and

installation (e.g. compression, strain

and load capacity).

http://smart-structures.com/technology/EDC-embedded-data-collector/

Smart City - Bigbelly

The Bigbelly is a smart waste and

recycling system that helps to figure

out if a particular trash can needs to

be emptied. It is a solar powered

system, so no electricity is needed for

fullness level sensing. It offers

communication with the Bigbelly

cloud. The system is designed to

provide smart trash cans from home

to city scale.

http://bigbelly.com/solutions/stations/

Smart City – Bill Gates

Arizona desert - 143,8 km2

$80 million for the development, which will feature

high-speed public wifi,

self-driving cars,

and high-tech manufacturing facilities

http://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-smart-city-pros-cons-arizona-urban-planners-2017-11

Smart City

SmartME

University of Messina

2015 Messina, Italy

Temperature, Brightness, Humidity, Pressure, Noise

CityPulse

European FP7 project

Aarhus, Denmark and Brasov, Romania

Temperature, Brightness, Humidity, Pressure, Noise, Wind speed

http://smartme-data.unime.it/

http://www.ict-citypulse.eu/page/

Smart Home

• First generation: wireless technology with proxy server, e.g. Zigbee

automation;

• Second generation: artificial intelligence controls electrical devices,

e.g. Amazon Echo;

• Third generation: robot buddy who interacts with humans, e.g. Robot

Rovio, Roomba

Smart Home – Green Plug

The Green Plug is a smart home project that enables users turn on and

off appliances remotely, they also enable real time energy

consumption by measuring current and voltage. A magnetic sensor is

placed near to the outlet, and the changes in the field can be used to

conclude the electric usage.

It can reduce the average electricity consumption by 41%.

http://www.green-plug.co.uk/

Smart Home – Mimo

The Mimo project develops smart home products that are created for

remote monitoring of babies. It measures baby body functions such as

breathing, temperature, body position and activity level. It can send

occasional alerts and nightly reports to a smartphone by using ultra

low-power Bluetooth connection. Caretakers can see sensor

information in real-time. It also supports special features to

interconnect other devices, e.g. if the baby temperature is not optimal

a smart thermostat can change the room temperature, or if the baby is

moving a webcam can be switched on to visually monitor the baby.

https://www.mimobaby.com/

Smart Home - JarvisMark Zuckerberg (Facebook)

2016 personal challenge: Smart Home

https://www.facebook.com/notes/mark-zuckerberg/building-jarvis/10154361492931634/

Simple AI (talk to on phone, computer)

Control the home: lights, temperature, appliances, music and security,

(learns tastes and patterns, new words, concepts)

Smart Home - JarvisChallenges:

Connect the different systems (no standard, reverse engineer APIs)

Turn on and off the power is not enough (smart toaster)

Context (turn the AC up in "my office“, play a song [where?])

Open-ended requests are more frequent (play some music)

Vision:

tracking (where is the dog),

object recognition (is it a dog or a rug),

face recognition (let somebody in)

Communication from everywhere (Messenger bot)

Commands by texting or speaking? (Human -> Computer)

Text feels less disturbing to people around

Speaking when it relates to them (play music), fast

Notifications: Text gives you more control of when you want to look at it

Understanding: People to Computer vs People to People

More fun, humor: Who should we tickle? Random selectionhttps://www.facebook.com/notes/mark-zuckerberg/building-jarvis/10154361492931634/

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