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SMART HOUSES INFO:

MavHome Smart house
MavHome (Managing an Adaptive Versatile Home) at University of Texas Arlington:
Mavhome logo
http://mavhome.uta.edu/ link closed
the Arlington project MavHome officially ended and they dismantled the lab and no longer support the link, but try: http://www.uta.edu/ra/real/editprofile.php?pid=625&onlyview=1
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"The MavHome Smart Home project is a multi-disciplinary research project at the University of Texas at Arlington focused on the creation of an intelligent home environment. Our approach is to view the smart home as an intelligent agent that perceives its environment through the use of sensors, and can act upon the environment through the use of actuators. The home has certain overall goals, such as minimizing the cost of maintaining the home and maximizing the comfort of its inhabitants. In order to meet these goals, the house must be able to reason about and adapt to provided information." MavHome is a research project of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington.


TRANSGENERATIONAL HOUSING
Link to informative article from AARP Magazine
This Bold House By Belinda Luscombe, September-October 2003
http://www.aarpmagazine.org/lifestyle/Articles/a2003-08-28-bold_house.html


The Duke Smart House
http://www.smarthouse.duke.edu/
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"The Smart House, part of a Duke Engineering Living Technology Advancement project, creates a dynamic "living laboratory" e nvironment that contributes to the innovation and demonstration of future residential building technology. The central concept of this project is our belief that smart homes can improve that quality of life for people of all ages and incomes.
The Smart House provides students at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering and Trinity School of Arts and Sciences with an opportunity for practical hands- on engineering outside of the classroom in a living and learning community. In addition, we are partnering with industry to strengthen the residential market for integrated technology, and helping homeowners make their own ideas for smart homes a reality."


Center for Future Health
SMART MEDICAL HOME RESEARCH LABORATORY
http://www.futurehealth.rochester.edu/smart_home/
"The Smart Medical Home, located within the University of Rochester Center for Future Health, is the most controlled environment available outside of a person's home in which to do research, and is our setting for research in pre-concept testing, concept testing, pilots, and prototype testing. Research for Center Members in the Smart Medical Home is conducted as a Focused Research Project. Each project has a Principal Investigator from the Center and a Project Coordinator. All projects involving human subjects will follow the RSRB (Research Subject Review Board) process and HIPAA regulations through the University. Projects are defined jointly, and project plans and budgets are agreed upon before work starts.
The Center's overall goal is to develop an integrated Personal Health System, so all technologies are integrated and work seamlessly."


There are other smart house projects across the country, many any are listed here:

These links via The Duke Smart House project

University-based Smart Houses:

Adaptive House, University of Colorado: http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~mozer/nnh/

Carnegie Mellon’s Intelligent Workspace: http://www.arc.cmu.edu/cbpd/iw/index.html

Colorado Adaptive House: http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~mozer/nnh/

Duke University, Duke Smart House: http://delta.pratt.duke.edu/research/

Georgia Tech Aware Home: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fce/ahri/

Humboldt State CCAT: http://www.humboldt.edu/~ccat/

MavHome at University of Texas Arlington: http://mavhome.uta.edu/

Medical Automation Research Center @ UVA: http://marc.med.virginia.edu/

MIT House_n: http://architecture.mit.edu/house_n/

MIT Media Laboratory: http://www.media.mit.edu/

NC State Solar Center: http://www.ncsc.ncsu.edu/

Oberlin College: http://www.oberlin.edu/ajlc/ajlcHome.html

Rochester Smart Medical Home:

Smart Medical Home: http://www.futurehealth.rochester.edu/smart_home/

UNC Office of the Future: http://www.cs.unc.edu/~raskar/Office/

Residential Housing Technology & Design:

Center for Universal Design: http://www.design.ncsu.edu/cud/

CSIRO Research Center, Australia: http://www.csiro.au/index.asp?type=mediaRelease&id=Prnanohouse

DOE: http://www.eere.energy.gov/buildings/highperformance/

Dwell Home: http://mocoloco.com/archives/000527.php

Earthcraft House, Building Program in Atlanta: http://www.southface.org/web/earthcraft_house/ech_main/ech_resources.htm

Elite Care assisted living facility: http://www.elite-care.com/

Energy Star: http://www.energystar.gov/

E-House: http://www.michaelmcdonough.com/e-House/ehouse.htm

Honeywell Survey: http://www.htc.honeywell.com/projects/ilsa/content/weblinks_researcherTechnology.html#techprojects

Houston Advanced Research Center: http://www.harc.edu/

IBM Pervasive Computing: http://www-306.ibm.com/software/pervasive/demos/index.shtml

Microsoft’s Easy Living Project: http://www.research.microsoft.com/easyliving/

National Renewable Energy Laboratory: http://www.nrel.gov/research.html

PATH: http://www.pathnet.org/sp.asp?mc=rd_background

The Dwell Home: http://thedwellhome.com/

US Green Building Council, LEED-H: http://www.usgbc.org/DisplayPage.aspx?CMSPageID=147

Zigbee Alliance: http://www.zigbee.org/en/index.asp


Canada

Intelligent systems for assisted living: http://www.magen.ca/toronto/assisted_living/senior_care/


Europe:

Germany

inHaus: http://www.inhaus-duisburg.de/

Intelligent Living Initiative: http://www.intelligentliving.org/site/index.php

Smarter Living Initiative: http://www.smarterwohnen.net/deutsch/startseite/index.html

Netherlands

Amigo (Philips-led): http://www.hitech-projects.com/euprojects/amigo/

Philips Research HomeLab: http://www.research.philips.com/technologies/misc/homelab/

Smartest Home Netherlands: http://www.smart-homes.nl/engels/index.html

United Kingdom

Joseph Rountree Foundation Demonstration Project: http://www.jrf.org.uk/housingandcare/smarthomes/

Swindon Smart House: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/wiltshire/4324951.stm

France

France Telecom ePerSpace: http://www.ist-eperspace.org/default.htm

France Telecom Creative Studio Lab: http://www.rd.francetelecom.com/en/technologies/ddm200411/techfiche4.php

Norway

Telenor Home of the Future: http://press.telenor.com/PR/200110/837959_5.html

Spain

Ikerlan, DomoLab: http://www.ikerlan.es/pub/cast/domolab/fridomola.htm

Switzerland

Futurelife:

Sweden

Vallgossen, Ringblomman, Smart Living (three projects):

Elux House: http://nweb.waymaker.se/bitonline/2000/09/11/20000911BIT00760/bit0002.pdf


Asia:

Japan

TRON Intelligent House: http://tronweb.super-nova.co.jp/tronintlhouse.html

(included functions important to elderly and impaired, such as toilets that open themselves.)

Toyota Intelligent House (BABI): http://ubiks.net/local/blog/jmt/archives3/002863.html

Singapore

Singapore Connected Homes Projects:

MyStarHome: http://www.ida.gov.sg/idaweb/broadband/infopage.jsp?infopagecategory=factsheet:broadband&versionid=1&infopageid=I2125

Korea: http://asia.cnet.com/news/personaltech/0,39037091,39130965,00.htm

Intel, LG in Korea: http://asia.cnet.com/news/systems/0,39037054,39172023,00.htm

Malaysia: http://asia.cnet.com/news/security/0,39037064,39214820,00.htm

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