Integrated OPM wireless for Smart Home

Indoor wireless transceivers connect sensors and actuators, which are carried by a mobile agent to the Smart Home Information System (SHIS). In the smart home, the sensors' role is to observe the human activities and home status, while the actuators are to perform assistive and recovery actions for serving the home resident. The SHIS then analyzes the sensors' data and issues the actuation commands for the task of activity recognition and technological assistance provision. By integrating the wireless network management system with the activity recognition system, we could improve three key parameters in the smart home. First, we could apply sensors and actuators efficiently, by spatially positioning the sensors and actuators in the right place at right time. Second, we could decrease the communication delay, by managing the wireless transceivers at the physical and data-link layer. Third, we let SHIS access the Received Signal Strength Indication (RSSI) information, so it considers the spatiotemporal features of the mobile agent observations as additive information for activity recognition. The main ideas of this paper are examined through experimentation with the use of an Opportunistic Mesh (OPM) platform.