This document proposes a "Web of Domotics" (WoD) system that uses visual tags and mobile devices to allow users to remotely control smart home devices and access information from public spaces. The WoD system would use unique identifiers encoded in visual tags (e.g. QR codes) attached to devices. Users could scan a tag with their phone to control the associated device or access information. This could help elderly people live more independently by controlling home functions from anywhere. The system aims to provide autonomy, quality of life improvements, and independent living support through ubiquitous device access. Further research is needed in areas like interfaces, context awareness, privacy and security.

1. An application of web of domotics for the ageing society. Faisal Razzak – Politecnicodi Torino, e-Lite research group Favetto Alain – Politecnico di Torino, IIT@POLITO Yongkun SUN – Hokkaido University , Graduate School of Environment Science Axel Furlan – Università degli Studi di Milano – Bicocca, DISCO, IRALab

2. Outline Introduction & Goals. Scenario. Proposed Solution. Extended Scenarios. Areas that need further Investigation. Current State of Technology. Conclusion.

3. Introduction and Goals

4. Prof. Marco Mezzalama，Politecnico di Torino

5. Prof. Roberto Bisiani, University of Milano-Bicocca

6. Prof. Roberto Bisiani, University of Milano-Bicocca

9. Edoardo Calia, CTO Istituto Superiore Mario Boella At work Staying active and productive longer Better quality of work and work-life balance In the Community Overcoming isolation and loneliness Keeping up social networks At Home Better quality of life for longer Independence, autonomy and dignity

10. Goals Target persons: Aged people. People which cannot move easily. People with physical disabilities. Motivations: Support independent living. Improve the quality of life. Improve the independency and autonomy. Minimal invasiveness.

11. Scenario Suppose an aged person is living in a house. With time, there is physical degradation in his/her health. One morning in winter, he wakes up feeling a bit sick, but he needs to perform the mundane operations. He needs to shut the heating system in the morning. He needs to prepare coffee for himself as there is no one to assist him. Suddenly, there is a bell on the door and the postman is there to deliver him the gifts sended by his grandchildrens. Etc ...

12. Scenario - Ambientation Or in the evening, the aged person decide to switch on the lights of the upper floor, but his health does not allow him to walk up the stairs. Etc ... The previous scenario or the related scenarios require an aged person to perform tasks or operation inside his home and in normal circumstances he would require someone’s assistance. BUT ...

13. BUT …. He lives in a modern house equipped with centralized home automation system. The walls of the house ( at different locations ) are marked with identifiers of different devices inside the house.

14. BUT …. He from his current location inside house, opens his smart phone. He searches and selects the identifier of the main door or the coffee maker or the lamp upstairs and immediately all the option related to that device are shown and he executes the tasks from his current location. The aged person has the option to take a snap of any identifier and immediately the control options of a device related to the identifier are shown. He next performs the tasks.

15. Scenario – Devices Each device is marked with an unique tag. Tags can be of different types (BarCode, QRCode, RFID, etc.).

16. Scenario - Example

17. Extended Scenario This technology can also be applied to provide a general service, not only for aged people, not only at home. Imagine, for example, you are wandering in the streets of a town. Suddenly you arrive at a monument, a museum or at a bus stop, each equipped with its own tag. You only have to read such tag with your smartphone and it will provide you information like: History of the monument The current exposition at the museum The time table and the current position of the bus

18. Extended Scenario - Example

19. proposed solutions: WEB OF DOMOTICS (WoD)

20. What is WoD? Internet of Things (IoT) + Domotics. Internet of Things goal is to “Digitalize Objects (noun)”. Domotics = Home Automation System. Enabling mobile users to access semantic powered information about devices and to control devices in a ubiquitous manner, independently from any location dependence.

22. The mobile application decodes the visual tag, provides interface to authenticate users and to control domotic devices.

23. Every device is identified uniquely through a Universal Access ID (UAID). The UAID of a domotic device is encoded using visual tags like 2D Bar Codes.

25. Conceptual model (2/4)

26. Conceptual model (3/4) The user opens the mobile application to perform operations. The mobile application takes a snap shot of the visual tag associated to the device and located nearby. The mobile application decodes the visual tag to extract the UAID of the device. After getting the UAID, the mobile application determines the URL of the correct Controller through a DNS query on a special domain.

29. Further research areas Human Machine Interface. Context awareness Privacy Security

30. Current State of Internet of things Massimo Paolucci, Matthias Wagner, EnricoRukzio, Albrecht Schmidt, HeinricHuBmanGregrorBroll, "PERCI: Pervasive Service Interaction with the Internet of Things," IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 1089-7801/09, pp. 74-81, 2009. G.Broll et al., "Supporting Mobile Service Usage through Physical Mobile Interaction," in 5th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing, 2007, pp. 262-271.

31. conclusion We highlight a possibility among many that the integration of technologies like IoT and Domotics, in a ubiqutious manner can help aged people become more autonomous, help them achieve better quality of life and independent living. WoD provides minimal invasiveness by exploiting tags as compared to technologies like sensors or RFID. To reach mentioned extended scenarios, it would require a collective effort from different sectors of society, which should help become society more integrated.

32. Thanks for reading. Faisal Razzakfaisal.razzak@polito.it Yongkun SUN sun@ees.hokudai.ac.jp Alain Favetto alain.favetto@polito.it Axel Furlan furlan@disco.unimib.it