The Gator Tech Smart House: enabling technologies and lessons learned

In this paper, we describe the Gator Tech Smart House (GTSH), an assistive environment for independence and wellbeing, with focus on the elderly population. We give a quick overview of the GTSH and its services before presenting our experience and some of the lessons we learnt in this real world deployment project. We present the Atlas architecture -- a key enabling technology for the automatic integration of devices and sensors and show how can Atlas be used to develop smart environments without requiring a team of engineers or system integrators. Finally, we discuss ongoing related Atlas developments.