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    Facultad Nacional de Ingeniería Designed and Adapted by Lic.

    Alba Colque Miranda


    Departamento de Idiomas LIN 1103

    Smarthomes
    How is technology changing the homes we live in? How can hi-tech homes help old people to live independently?
    Read the article to find out about research and development into smarthomes in the UK.

    Big changes

    The beginning of the 21st century saw a revolution in home-living with new technology changing the places where
    we live, from the wireless internet to TV screens that hang on walls, and it seems technology could be changing
    5 our homes again. A project conducted by Johann Siau, Senior Lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire’s School

    of Engineering and Technology, builds on the University’s InterHome project – aiming to create a home that
    monitors people living at home who are frail or elderly.

    The InterHome

    A wrist-band type device was developed by Johann Siau, which allows them to monitor the condition of an elderly
    person, or whoever is wearing the device. It allows them to collect data of a person, to detect if the person has
    10 fallen or is away from where they are supposed to be. It connects an elderly person with an assisted-living type

    device with the InterHome. The assisted-living project is part of the University’s wider InterHome project, which
    is the development of a smart house. The house stores the usage patterns of the person living there and can adapt
    to make it as energy efficient as possible. Linking the two together, and building the service element, allows them
    to introduce the assisted-living idea to care for the elderly. It’s very important that these technologies are there
    15 to help and support rather than to replace any of the existing services.

    Built from zero

    The InterHome is not just a prototype (a doll’s house at the moment) or a vehicle for research, it is a study tool
    where students from a range of scientific disciplines get to learn and develop technology. The InterHome
    incorporates the latest broadband technology, mobile data and communication. Researchers and students make
    sure all the technology works together. They have used this to teach their undergraduate students, as well as their
    20 postgraduate students, and gives them the flexibility to be able to design those systems because the hardware

    and software is developed in-house. It requires a variety of skills from students – electronic engineers, embedded-
    system engineers, computer students, design students. The current plan they are working on is a smart home
    project in Watford with some commercial companies, Johann Siau says, ‘We are looking at how a smarter home
    can provide extra value services.’

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