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2011 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
An Intelligent Agent for Determining Home Occupancy Using Power Monitors and Light Sensors
Authors : Stephen Makonin, Fred Popowich
Published in: Toward Useful Services for Elderly and People with Disabilities
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Smart homes of the future will have a number of different types of sensors. What types of sensors and how they will be used depends on the behaviour needed from the smart home. Using the sensors to automatically determine if a home is occupied can lead to a wide range of benefits. For example, it could trigger a change in the thermostat setting to save money, or even a change in security monitoring systems. Our prototype
Home Occupancy Agent
(HOA), which we present in this paper, uses a rule based system that monitors power consumption from meters and ambient light sensor readings in order to determine occupancy.