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  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,243 Views
23 Pages

25 November 2024

This study explores the key considerations in designing a smart environment for the elderly, aiming to enhance their effective use of such space environments within a structure such as a building. A survey was conducted among a limited sample of elde...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
18 Citations
11,922 Views
8 Pages

Human-Computer Interaction in Smart Environments

  • Gianluca Paravati and
  • Valentina Gatteschi

7 August 2015

Here, we provide an overview of the content of the Special Issue on “Human-computer interaction in smart environments”. The aim of this Special Issue is to highlight technologies and solutions encompassing the use of mass-market sensors in current a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,536 Views
52 Pages

The PBC Model: Supporting Positive Behaviours in Smart Environments

  • Oluwande Adewoyin,
  • Janet Wesson and
  • Dieter Vogts

8 December 2022

Several behavioural problems exist in office environments, including resource use, sedentary behaviour, cognitive/multitasking, and social media. These behavioural problems have been solved through subjective or objective techniques. Within objective...

  • Article
  • Open Access
820 Views
14 Pages

This paper looks at and describes the potential of using artificial intelligence in smart environments. Various environments such as houses and residential and commercial buildings are becoming smarter through the use of various technologies, i.e., v...

  • Article
  • Open Access
82 Citations
15,010 Views
16 Pages

Building Information Modelling for Smart Built Environments

  • Jianchao Zhang,
  • Boon-Chong Seet and
  • Tek Tjing Lie

26 January 2015

Building information modelling (BIM) provides architectural 3D visualization and a standardized way to share and exchange building information. Recently, there has been an increasing interest in using BIM, not only for design and construction, but al...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
6,249 Views
30 Pages

6 June 2019

Technologies, such as smart sensors, actuators, and other kinds of devices, are often installed in our environments (e.g., our Homes) and available to integrate our daily lives. Despite their installation being motivated by the pursuit of automation...

  • Review
  • Open Access
74 Citations
9,889 Views
32 Pages

Enhancing Healthcare through Sensor-Enabled Digital Twins in Smart Environments: A Comprehensive Analysis

  • Sasan Adibi,
  • Abbas Rajabifard,
  • Davood Shojaei and
  • Nilmini Wickramasinghe

27 April 2024

This comprehensive review investigates the transformative potential of sensor-driven digital twin technology in enhancing healthcare delivery within smart environments. We explore the integration of smart environments with sensor technologies, digita...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,962 Views
22 Pages

Healthcare in Asymmetrically Smart Future Environments: Applications, Challenges and Open Problems

  • Barry Dowdeswell,
  • Roopak Sinha,
  • Matthew M. Y. Kuo,
  • Boon-Chong Seet,
  • Ali Ghaffarian Hoseini,
  • Amirhosein Ghaffarianhoseini and
  • Hakilo Sabit

27 December 2023

The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) offers promising ways to meet healthcare needs of patients recovering in their own homes and other environments. Interconnected and resilient smart systems offer innovative and cost-effective ways of supporting p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,513 Views
18 Pages

Exploring Smart Agents for the Interaction with Multimodal Mediated Environments

  • Robert Richer,
  • Nan Zhao,
  • Bjoern M. Eskofier and
  • Joseph A. Paradiso

After conversational agents have been made available to the broader public, we speculate that applying them as a mediator for adaptive environments reduces control complexity and increases user experience by providing a more natural interaction. We i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,222 Views
19 Pages

Secure Adaptive Context-Aware ABE for Smart Environments

  • Saad Inshi,
  • Rasel Chowdhury,
  • Hakima Ould-Slimane and
  • Chamseddine Talhi

20 April 2023

Predicting context-aware activities using machine-learning techniques is evolving to become more readily available as a major driver of the growth of IoT applications to match the needs of the future smart autonomous environments. However, with today...

  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
7,139 Views
18 Pages

15 November 2018

Smart Environments try to adapt their conditions focusing on the detection, localisation, and identification of people to improve their comfort. It is common to use different sensors, actuators, and analytic techniques in this kind of environments to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,310 Views
14 Pages

A User-Centered Approach to the Application of BIM in Smart Working Environments

  • Da Yeon Park,
  • Jungsik Choi,
  • Soyeong Ryu and
  • Mi Jeong Kim

8 April 2022

Considerable research has been performed on smart working environments in the architecture, engineering, and construction industry, with building information modeling considered as a critical element for implementing intelligent working systems. Alth...

  • Review
  • Open Access
26 Citations
8,553 Views
24 Pages

14 May 2021

Since architect Nicholas Negroponte first proposed a vision of responsive architecture smart environments have been widely investigated, especially in the fields of computer science and engineering. Despite growing interest in the topic, a comprehens...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
6,973 Views
27 Pages

20 February 2020

The application of artificial intelligence enhances the ability of sensor and networking technologies to realize smart systems that sense, monitor and automatically control our everyday environments. Intelligent systems and applications often automat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,517 Views
31 Pages

Towards an Accessible Platform for Multimodal Extended Reality Smart Environments

  • Emanuela Bran,
  • Gheorghe Nadoleanu and
  • Dorin-Mircea Popovici

18 September 2022

This article presents the DEMOS prototype platform for creating and exploring multimodal extended-reality smart environments. Modular distributed event-driven applications are created with the help of visual codeless design tools for configuring and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,925 Views
21 Pages

PRIPRO: A Comparison of Classification Algorithms for Managing Receiving Notifications in Smart Environments

  • João Antônio Martins,
  • Iago Sestrem Ochôa,
  • Luis Augusto Silva,
  • André Sales Mendes,
  • Gabriel Villarrubia González,
  • Juan De Paz Santana and
  • Valderi Reis Quietinho Leithardt

10 January 2020

With the evolution of technology over the years, it has become possible to develop intelligent environments based on the concept of the Internet of Things, distributed systems, and machine learning. Such environments are infused with various solution...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
452 Views
28 Pages

Various recurring medical events encourage innovative patient well-being through connected health strategies based on an elegant digital environment that prioritizes safety, comfort, and beneficial outcomes for both patients and medical staff. This n...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
71 Citations
5,337 Views
9 Pages

Designing Smart Electromagnetic Environments for Next-Generation Wireless Communications

  • Andrea Massa,
  • Arianna Benoni,
  • Pietro Da Rù,
  • Sotirios K. Goudos,
  • Baozhu Li,
  • Giacomo Oliveri,
  • Alessandro Polo,
  • Paolo Rocca and
  • Marco Salucci

12 May 2021

The design of a smart electromagnetic (EM) environment for next-generation wireless communication systems is addressed in this work. The proposed approach aims at synthesizing a desired EM field distribution over a target region, where the receiving...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,023 Views
22 Pages

PRIPRO—Privacy Profiles: User Profiling Management for Smart Environments

  • Jonas Cesconetto,
  • Luís Augusto Silva,
  • Fabricio Bortoluzzi,
  • María Navarro-Cáceres,
  • Cesar A. Zeferino and
  • Valderi R. Q. Leithardt

17 September 2020

Smart environments are pervasive computing systems that provide higher comfort levels on daily routines throughout interactions among smart sensors and embedded computers. The lack of privacy within these interactions can lead to the exposure of sens...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,271 Views
12 Pages

30 October 2024

Acoustic management is very important for detecting possible events in the context of a smart environment (SE). In previous works, we proposed a reflective middleware for acoustic management (ReM-AM) and its autonomic cycles of data analysis tasks, a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,927 Views
29 Pages

Enabling Context-Aware Data Analytics in Smart Environments: An Open Source Reference Implementation

  • Andres Munoz-Arcentales,
  • Sonsoles López-Pernas,
  • Javier Conde,
  • Álvaro Alonso,
  • Joaquín Salvachúa and
  • Juan José Hierro

26 October 2021

In recent years, many proposals of context-aware systems applied to IoT-based smart environments have been presented in the literature. Most previous works provide a generic high-level structure of how a context-aware system can be operationalized, b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
366 Views
16 Pages

On-Device Privacy-Preserving Fraud Detection for Smart Consumer Environments Using Federated Learning

  • Alexandros I. Bermperis,
  • Vasileios A. Memos,
  • Christos L. Stergiou,
  • Andreas P. Plageras and
  • Konstantinos E. Psannis

14 January 2026

This paper discusses an on-device artificial intelligence (AI) solution for real-time, privacy-preserving fraud detection in smart financial environments, ensuring privacy-preserving consumer transactions. We suggest a distributed, on-device fraud de...

  • Review
  • Open Access
96 Citations
14,915 Views
26 Pages

Physiological and Behavior Monitoring Systems for Smart Healthcare Environments: A Review

  • Mariana Jacob Rodrigues,
  • Octavian Postolache and
  • Francisco Cercas

12 April 2020

Healthcare optimization has become increasingly important in the current era, where numerous challenges are posed by population ageing phenomena and the demand for higher quality of the healthcare services. The implementation of Internet of Things (I...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,042 Views
8 Pages

The Potential of Open Data to Automatically Create Learning Resources for Smart Learning Environments

  • Adolfo Ruiz-Calleja,
  • Miguel L. Bote-Lorenzo,
  • Guillermo Vega-Gorgojo,
  • Sergio Serrano-Iglesias,
  • Juan I. Asensio-Pérez,
  • Yannis Dimitriadis and
  • Eduardo Gómez-Sánchez

Smart Education requires bridging formal and informal learning experience. However, how to create contextualized learning resources that support this bridging remains a problem. In this paper, we propose to exploit the open data available in the Web...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
7,794 Views
19 Pages

User-Generated Services Composition in Smart Multi-User Environments

  • Vincenzo Catania,
  • Giuseppe La Torre,
  • Salvatore Monteleone,
  • Daniela Panno and
  • Davide Patti

The increasing complexity shown in Smart Environments, together with the spread of social networks, is increasingly moving the role of users from simple information and services consumers to actual producers. In this work, we focus on security issues...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,058 Views
32 Pages

7 November 2019

By coupling a robot to a smart environment, the robot can sense state beyond the perception range of its onboard sensors and gain greater actuation capabilities. Nevertheless, incorporating the states and actions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices i...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,681 Views
18 Pages

Smart Textiles in Building and Living Applications: WG4 CONTEXT Insight on Elderly and Healthcare Environments

  • Enrico Venturini Degli Esposti,
  • Chiara Bedon,
  • Vaida Jonaitiene,
  • Jan K. Kazak,
  • Leonarda Francesca Liotta,
  • Georgios Priniotakis and
  • Urszula Stachewicz

7 December 2022

Over the past 30 years, the development of new technologies and especially of smart textiles has unavoidably led to new applications of traditional textiles in the built environment. Depending on special constructional needs (i.e., acoustic insulatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,620 Views
19 Pages

ARES: Automated Risk Estimation in Smart Sensor Environments

  • Athanasios Dimitriadis,
  • Jose Luis Flores,
  • Boonserm Kulvatunyou,
  • Nenad Ivezic and
  • Ioannis Mavridis

17 August 2020

Industry 4.0 adoption demands integrability, interoperability, composability, and security. Currently, integrability, interoperability and composability are addressed by next-generation approaches for enterprise systems integration such as model-base...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,522 Views
19 Pages

A Study of Student and Teacher Challenges in Smart Synchronous Hybrid Learning Environments

  • Adrián Carruana Martín,
  • Carlos Alario-Hoyos and
  • Carlos Delgado Kloos

28 July 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to the growth of hybrid and online learning environments and the trend of introducing more technology into the classroom. One such change could be the use of smart synchronous hybrid learning environments (SSHLEs), which...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,184 Views
25 Pages

Designing Smart Urban Parks with Sensor-Integrated Landscapes to Enhance Mental Health in City Environments

  • Yuyang Cai,
  • Yiwei Yan,
  • Guohang Tian,
  • Yiwen Cui,
  • Chenfang Feng,
  • Haoran Tian,
  • Xiaxi Liuyang,
  • Ling Zhang and
  • Yang Cao

22 August 2025

As mental health issues such as stress, anxiety, and depression become increasingly prevalent in urban populations, there is a critical need to embed restorative functions into the built environment. Urban parks, as integral components of ecological...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,097 Views
14 Pages

19 October 2018

The Internet of Things (IoT) environment is constantly evolving. Many IoT services have emerged, improving living conditions. Smart homes were among the first developments, and smart buildings, smart factories, and smart cities are attracting increas...

  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
8,350 Views
12 Pages

10 September 2023

Recently, a world-wide trend has been observed that there is widespread adoption across all fields to embrace smart environments and automation. Smart environments include a wide variety of Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices, so many challenges face co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
545 Views
28 Pages

Adaptive and Sustainable Smart Environments Using Predictive Reasoning and Context-Aware Reinforcement Learning

  • Abderrahim Lakehal,
  • Boubakeur Annane,
  • Adel Alti,
  • Philippe Roose and
  • Soliman Aljarboa

8 January 2026

Smart environments play a key role in improving user comfort, energy efficiency, and sustainability through intelligent automation. Nevertheless, real-world deployments still face major challenges, including network instability, delayed responsivenes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,902 Views
15 Pages

14 October 2024

Smart environments exploit rising technologies like Internet of Things (IoT) and edge intelligence (EI) to achieve unseen effectiveness and efficiency in every tasks, including air sanitization. The latter represents a key preventative measure–...

  • Review
  • Open Access
87 Citations
15,312 Views
23 Pages

10 July 2020

The emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) notion pioneered the implementation of various smart environments. Smart environments intelligibly accommodate inhabitants’ requirements. With rapid resource shrinkage, energy management has recentl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,437 Views
32 Pages

14 May 2025

The deployment of autonomous AI agents in smart environments has accelerated the need for accurate and privacy-preserving human identification. Traditional vision-based solutions, while effective in capturing spatial and contextual information, often...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
8,256 Views
26 Pages

15 October 2016

With the rapid growth of wireless sensor applications, the user interfaces and configurations of smart homes have become so complicated and inflexible that users usually have to spend a great amount of time studying them and adapting to their expecte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,577 Views
21 Pages

Fog Computing in IoT Smart Environments via Named Data Networking: A Study on Service Orchestration Mechanisms

  • Marica Amadeo,
  • Giuseppe Ruggeri,
  • Claudia Campolo,
  • Antonella Molinaro,
  • Valeria Loscrí and
  • Carlos T. Calafate

24 October 2019

By offering low-latency and context-aware services, fog computing will have a peculiar role in the deployment of Internet of Things (IoT) applications for smart environments. Unlike the conventional remote cloud, for which consolidated architectures...

  • Article
  • Open Access
68 Citations
6,847 Views
26 Pages

Neural Network Ensembles for Sensor-Based Human Activity Recognition Within Smart Environments

  • Naomi Irvine,
  • Chris Nugent,
  • Shuai Zhang,
  • Hui Wang and
  • Wing W. Y. NG

30 December 2019

In this paper, we focus on data-driven approaches to human activity recognition (HAR). Data-driven approaches rely on good quality data during training, however, a shortage of high quality, large-scale, and accurately annotated HAR datasets exists fo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,524 Views
24 Pages

25 August 2023

Detecting anomalies in data streams from smart communication environments is a challenging problem that can benefit from novel learning techniques. The Attention Mechanism is a very promising architecture for addressing this problem. It allows the mo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,172 Views
32 Pages

Accurate and scalable indoor localization is a key enabler of intelligent automation in smart environments and industrial systems. In this paper, we present SelfLoc, a self-supervised indoor localization system that combines IEEE 802.11az Round Trip...

  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
9,770 Views
25 Pages

22 March 2021

This paper presents a new architecture that integrates Internet of Things (IoT) devices, service robots, and users in a smart assistive environment. A new intuitive and multimodal interaction system supporting people with disabilities and bedbound pa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
247 Views
20 Pages

20 January 2026

This paper focuses on whether smart-related built environments are associated with improved housing affordability for economically disadvantaged groups. Smart growth is a planning theme that aims to address the unintended negative consequences of urb...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,016 Views
15 Pages

8 May 2024

Smart farm environments, equipped with cutting-edge technology, require proficient techniques for managing poultry. This research investigates automated chicken counting, an essential part of optimizing livestock conditions. By integrating artificial...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,384 Views
18 Pages

6 January 2025

WiFi-based human sensing has emerged as a transformative technology for advancing sustainable living environments and promoting well-being by enabling non-intrusive and device-free monitoring of human behaviors. This offers significant potential in a...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
9,611 Views
23 Pages

Smart Sensing and Adaptive Reasoning for Enabling Industrial Robots with Interactive Human-Robot Capabilities in Dynamic Environments—A Case Study

  • Jaime Zabalza,
  • Zixiang Fei,
  • Cuebong Wong,
  • Yijun Yan,
  • Carmelo Mineo,
  • Erfu Yang,
  • Tony Rodden,
  • Jorn Mehnen,
  • Quang-Cuong Pham and
  • Jinchang Ren

18 March 2019

Traditional industry is seeing an increasing demand for more autonomous and flexible manufacturing in unstructured settings, a shift away from the fixed, isolated workspaces where robots perform predefined actions repetitively. This work presents a c...

  • Review
  • Open Access
80 Citations
13,857 Views
21 Pages

Indoor Air Quality Monitoring Systems for Enhanced Living Environments: A Review toward Sustainable Smart Cities

  • Gonçalo Marques,
  • Jagriti Saini,
  • Maitreyee Dutta,
  • Pradeep Kumar Singh and
  • Wei-Chiang Hong

14 May 2020

Smart cities follow different strategies to face public health challenges associated with socio-economic objectives. Buildings play a crucial role in smart cities and are closely related to people’s health. Moreover, they are equally essential...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,976 Views
11 Pages

30 August 2022

Achieving successful human–agent collaboration in the context of smart environments requires the modeling of human behavior for predicting people’s decisions. The goal of the current study was to utilize the TBR and the Alpha band as elec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,684 Views
25 Pages

Mobile Augmented Reality Games Towards Smart Learning City Environments: Learning About Sustainability

  • Margarida M. Marques,
  • João Ferreira-Santos,
  • Rita Rodrigues and
  • Lúcia Pombo

This study explores the potential of mobile augmented reality games (MARGs) in promoting sustainability competencies within the context of a smart learning city environment. Anchored in the EduCITY project, which integrates location-based AR-enhanced...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,870 Views
21 Pages

When Artificial Intelligence Tools Meet “Non-Violent” Learning Environments (SDG 4.3): Crossroads with Smart Education

  • Valery Okulich-Kazarin,
  • Artem Artyukhov,
  • Łukasz Skowron,
  • Nadiia Artyukhova and
  • Tomasz Wołowiec

4 September 2024

This paper continues the series of publications of our interdisciplinary research findings at the crossroads of higher education sustainability (SDG 4.3), smart education, and artificial intelligence (AI) tools. AI has begun to be used by universitie...

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