Smart Thinking

SMART Home Technology and Residential Care

The Workshop

smartthinking@ukideas.com

Guy Dewsbury

SEARCH

Robert Gordon University

Aberdeen

Scotland

mailto:smartthinking.ukideas.com?subject=SMART%20Thinking

Core Themes for the Workshop

•How Smart Homes Are Portrayed

•What Are Smart Homes?

•Why Smart Homes and Community Care?

•Types of Smart Home Technology

•Appropriate Design

•Where to get Help

PART 1

The most common features of a smart home

Environmental Controls

Enable a person to control

•Lights

•Heating

•Ventilation

Security Systems

Enable a Person to:

•Feel secure in their property

•Detect motion in the house

•Protect the vulnerable person

Enabling Systems

Enable the Person to:

•Undertake common tasks that they find difficult

•Undertake tasks they would not be able to do

•Undertake augmentative caring roles

How are smart homes portrayed

Enabling the enabled?

The Plaything of the Rich

Or as a Geeky / ‘macho’ thing full of computers and technical

stuff

The Main Purpose of Smart Home Technology

What are Smart Homes?

Smart Home Technology means:

Devices are able to carry and store the information and ‘know’ what they are

and what they are supposed to be doing

Smart Home Technology also means:

Devices are able to determine what all other

devices in the system are doing and supposed to be

doing

Smart Home Technology also means:

That computers are not always required to enable

the devices to continue their activities.

Busline Technology

The EIB Busline

Disorientation on waking?Need for toilet at night?

Activates pressure pad at side of bed

Light illuminates gradually

Lights come on in hall and bathroom

User goes to bathroomLights can be switched off manually

And set to go out after a period

Devices don’t operate in isolation

Can incorporate many safety features

Pressure pad activated...

Alarm sent if not reactivatedTo call center, formal or informal carer The home is

connected to the outside world

Smart homes Summary• Enable people to undertake tasks

that they might be unable to do normally.

• Enable people to feel secure.• Control some of the main household

electrical features.• Provide a better quality of life to the

occupant of the house.• Empower the usersmartthinking@ukideas.com

Smart homes Summary 2

•Can provide carers with additional support

•Enable caring levels to be increased as there can be more

one to one person contact

•DO NOT PROVIDE A SUBSTITUTE FOR STANDARD

CARE PACKAGES

Part 2

Some of the Most Commonly Used Smart

Home Devices

Automated Window Opener

An Infra-Red Receiver (IR)

A Passive Infra-Red Sensor - the ‘magic eye’ or motion detector (PIR)

An Automated

Curtain Motor

Touch Switches for minimal upper body mobility

EIB Switches

A Bus Coupler

This stores the information for the devices

The Switch Fascia fits into the Bus coupler and becomes a switch

Selection of Appropriate Switches

Alternative Switches

A Multiple Dial-up External

Communicator

Controllers

Direct Automation

Passive InfraRed Sensor Taps

Passive Infra-Red Bath Tap

Controls

PIR Taps enable limit upper body mobility to

control water supply

Door Entry Systems

Door Entry Systems 2

The Consumer Unit or Control

Boxes

Standard Switches

Interactivity and Automation

Control over the Domestic Environment

Part Three

Types of Smart Home Technology

There are generally three main types of technology:

•x10

•Radio Frequency (RF)

• Busline (EIB)

X10

Problems:

•One way protocol

•Unreliable

•Requires computer

Conclusion: NOT SUITABLE FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES

Radio Frequency (RF)

eg. Bluetooth and Powerline

Problems:

•Not fully tested

•Interference may effect operation

Conclusion: NOT SUITABLE FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES

Busline

•Two way protocol

•Robust and reliable

•tested extensively throughout Europe

Conclusion: MOST SUITABLE FOR PEOPLE WITH

DISABILITIES

Part Four

Some Thoughts on the Design Process

A quick quiz to get you thinking straight.....

Question Number 1How do you put a giraffe into a refrigerator?

The correct answer is: Open the refrigerator, put in the giraffe and close the door.

This question tests whether you tend to do simple things in an overly complicated way.

Question Number 2How do you put an elephant into a refrigerator?

Wrong Answer: Open the refrigerator, put in the elephant and close the refrigerator.

Correct Answer:Open the refrigerator, take out the giraffe, put in the elephant and close the door.

This tests your ability to think through the repercussions of your actions.

Question Number 3

The Lion King is hosting an animal conference. All the animals attend except one. Which animal does not attend?

Correct Answer:

The Elephant.

The Elephant is in the refrigerator.

Remember?

This tests your memory.

OK, even if you did not answer the first three questions correctly, you still have one more chance to show your abilities.

Question Number 4There is a river you must cross. But crocodiles inhabit it. How do you manage it?

Correct Answer: You swim across. Why? All the Crocodiles are attending the Animal Conference.

This tests whether you learn quickly from your mistakes.

Some GOLDEN Rules to Smart Home Design

Does the design meet the needs of the person(s)?

Is the most appropriate design used?

Would conventional technology not work better?

IS THIS REALLY THE BEST DESIGN?????

If the answer is YES to all.....

Well Done

Sounds like you are on a winner

Has the design been discussed with other stakeholders?

Are you within budget?

Have you remembered the hidden costs??

The Hidden costs of SMART Homes

•Installation- Retrofitting/new build

•Ordering devices- time=£

•Your time and travel costs

•Maintenance- The system will need maintenance

•Third party failures - late arrival of parts, job set backs etc

Smart home Technology cannot replace barrier free

design

Often Common problems can be sorted by good design

Not Technology led answers

Smart Thinking

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