Smart Living: Cyber-Human Smart Environments Design

Smart environments are systems in which both the environment and the user are in contact through several means, such as sensors, wearables, and mobile devices among others. The goal is to establish an environment in which, all the changes and conditions are not only based on the user’s preferences, but they also adapt and learn about the user as he/ she uses such system. Among several others, some of the main aspects of this project are the collection of the heterogeneous sensor data, storage, computation for intelligence, and visualization. Using a new open-source project called the Global Sensor Network (GSN), we aim to collect data from live sensors that are deployed in the user’s environment. Using such data and combining it with the powerful tool that is GSN, it is possible to harness information about the surroundings and also identify more efficient ways to constantly make the environment smarter