Interaction and Behaviour Evaluation for Smart Homes: Data Collection and Analytics in the ScaledHome Project

Nowadays more and more devices are becoming "smart", in fact they can take autonomous decision and interact proactively with the surrounding environment. Smart home is just one of the most popular terms related with this relevant change we are witnessing and its relevance in this project is mainly due to the fact that the residential sector account an important percentage in terms of energy consumption. New ways to share and save energy have to be taken into account in order to optimize the usage of the devices needed by houses to make the environment cozy and comfortable for their inhabitants. The work done with Professor Turgut's team has improved the knowledge in the smart home system area providing a scalable and reliable architecture, a new dataset and an example of application of these data useful to save energy while satisfying the demands of its inhabitants.