Goal: “Smart home for Expatriates” is a privately-funded research project. This project investigates the possibilities of utilizing Real-time Artificial Intelligence (real-time AI) and Internet-of-Things (IoT) in smart homes to facilitate expatriates. Facilities this project is interested to introduce in smart homes include elderly care, robotic capabilities, surveillance, remote command and control, civilian radar, etc. 

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Status: The project planning was completed in between 2014 and 2016. This project started implementing its research setup from the March of 2016 and started full operation from the July of 2016. The smart home features developed under this project so far allow smooth audio-video streaming over slow internet (such as 100 Kbps Internet), perform simple house works such as updating housemates’ smartphones or warming foods, and communicating with the housemates securely. The project investigated the possibilities of introducing real-time AI to take command of the smart homes during power failure, internet disruption and emergency. Besides that, the project investigated techniques that allows the artificially intelligent homes to communicate with each other autonomously and to make collaborative clever decisions. Further details about the sub-projects and funding sources can be found under the Subprojects tab.    

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Prototypes: Under this project, four prototype smart homes are implemented to study different technical and socio-economic challenges. These prototype smart homes are also used as the test beds for new smart home features.