Home automation middleware to support aging-in-place

This research project investigates the concept of Ambient Assistive Living in relation to the state of the art of ICT for buildings, especially dwellings. The project combines knowledge about user needs in aging societies and new evolving technologies from the ICT domain applied to houses. This project focuses on the ICT infrastructure of home automation. This is the technology that connects the components of the system (also called middleware). Since ICT infrastructure is a technical subject that has no direct relation with the end-user, user needs are rarely incorporated in the design of the technology. This causes mismatches between user needs and home automation performances