Smart Environments Concepts, Applications, and Challenges

This chapter presents the clear definition of a smart environment, its advantages, previous motivations in various applications, and open research challenges. These challenges are classified into two parts, artificial intelligence, and internet-of-things. They are powerful for researchers and students to select a research topic. This chapter also removes the blurred idea of a smart environment that is limited to the vision of a smart environment definition just interprets with the internet-of-things. It presents the importance of recently used smart environments such as smart homes, smart farming, smart city, smart education, or smart factory. The recent statistics refer to the predication of used smart devices for constructing the smart environments that reach to nine double of a population around a world by 2025. This chapter presents a proposed criterion of building a good smart environment for any domain with respect to two dimensions data and security.