Design and implementation of a smart home technological platform for the delivery of AAL services: from requirements to field experience
This chapter focused on the issues of designing feasible smart home technological platforms for the delivery of Ambient Assisted Living services, providing a review of the most relevant research projects in the field, and discussing in details the real-world experiences performed by the authors in a similar scenario. Matching the complexity of user requirements to the available consumer devices and technologies means a hard work to be performed on integration of different components, harmonization of services and applications. As understood by the authors, through personal experience, the approach to the real-world implementation often brings out different aspects and problems with respect to the results of a laboratory or experimental development. Referring to the main issues to overcome, some general considerations have been made, such as: the advantages of a user-centred design, the need of monitoring the correct operation of the system, and the importance of checking the real interoperability among different components. All these factors should have influence on the design solutions adopted, with the aim to bring benefits to all the involved stakeholders, from final users to designers and developers, to business entities.
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