Innovative Living Environments for Safe and Convenient Living
The FZI Living Lab smartHome/AAL is a research infrastructure. The lab, a two-room apartment, is equipped with numerous sensors, actuators, gateways as well as household appliances of different manufacturers. The lab serves as an environment for the development and the evaluation of technologies and application scenarios for more comfort and safety in the home environment.
Our research work focuses on:
- Supporting people in their homes with technology providing additional functions for smart home and AAL services through data networking and remote control
- Boosting the efficiency of the energy consumption as well as the communication of the components with each other by the employment of smart-metering technologies as well as wired and wireless bus systems (e.g. KNX, ZigBee, EnOcean etc.)
- Improving the situations of caregivers, home emergency service providers and telemedical service centres