1. CASAS Smart Home Project Center for Advanced Studies in Adaptive Systems Washington State University

2. Overview  CASAS(Center for Advanced Studies in Adaptive Systems)  Washington State University  The smart home as an intelligent agent  perceives its environment through the use of sensors  can act upon the environment through the use of actuators  The overall goals  Minimizing the cost of maintaining the home  Maximizing the comfort of its inhabitants

3. System Overview  CASAS: A Smart Home in a Box Diane J. Cook, Aaron S. Crandall, Brian L. Thomas, and Narayanan C. Krishnan, Washington State University, Computer, IEEE, 2013  The goal  Designing a smart home in a box (SHiB)  Small in form  lightweight in infrastructure  extendable with minimal effort  ready to perform key capabilities

4. Architecture of CASAS

5. Implemented Hardware

6. Components of the CASAS SHiB PictureDescriptionPictureDescription SHiB box (Contains computer and network equipment) Infrared sensor (Motion Sensor) RelayTemperature sensor Magnetic door sensor Burner, Hot water, Cold water, Light, Electricity usage, Shake, Gyro, Switch

7. Activity-aware Applications

9. Evaluation of resident behavior

10. CASAS Middleware History  MavHome architecture  Layers  Decision  Information  Communication  Physical

11. Atlas Platform

12. CLM:CASAS Lightweight Middleware  J. Kusznir and D. Cook. Designing lightweight software architectures for smart environments. Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Environments, 2010.  Goal: design a middleware for smart environments that is lightweight, flexible, fast, and easily extensible

13. CLM  Data format  XML format  Serial, Location, Message, Type, …  Message transport  XMPP: eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol  Data storage  PostgreSQL  Simple, Lightweight, Independent, Usable, Expandability

14. Conclusion  Ambient intelligence  Issues: easy-to-use, deploy, maintenance  CASAS  Smart home project  Activity Discovering, Recognition, Monitoring  SHiB(Smart Home in Box) Component  Message oriented middleware