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Building Automation and Control Systems for Healthcare in Smart Homes
Abstract The chapter presents an overview of building control systems addressing healthcare issues in home environments. Main goal of a building control installation is to ensure energy efficiency and comfort in home or functional buildings. Nevertheless, recent scientific work on the design of building control systems focuses on the inhabitants’ state of health. The chapter starts with a definition and distinction of several synonymously used terms in the field of building automation and control systems (BACS) and a general architectural design. Section 2 introduces a classification of health related applications using BACS while Sect. 3 gives selected examples for each class to give an overview about possibilities, limits and efforts on the creation of building environments with positive health effects using building control systems. Those example applications will range from adaptive lighting control for health treatment (e.g. in dementia, or depression) to smart home automation networks for activity recognition. Each mentioned system is aiming to create an improved environment, support healthy living, or to detect emergencies and to react adequately. Finally, the achievements of recent scientific works are summarized and recommendations for the development of even more adaptive and healthier building environments through distributed building system technologies are discussed.
Building Automation and Control Systems for Healthcare in Smart Homes
Abstract The chapter presents an overview of building control systems addressing healthcare issues in home environments. Main goal of a building control installation is to ensure energy efficiency and comfort in home or functional buildings. Nevertheless, recent scientific work on the design of building control systems focuses on the inhabitants’ state of health. The chapter starts with a definition and distinction of several synonymously used terms in the field of building automation and control systems (BACS) and a general architectural design. Section 2 introduces a classification of health related applications using BACS while Sect. 3 gives selected examples for each class to give an overview about possibilities, limits and efforts on the creation of building environments with positive health effects using building control systems. Those example applications will range from adaptive lighting control for health treatment (e.g. in dementia, or depression) to smart home automation networks for activity recognition. Each mentioned system is aiming to create an improved environment, support healthy living, or to detect emergencies and to react adequately. Finally, the achievements of recent scientific works are summarized and recommendations for the development of even more adaptive and healthier building environments through distributed building system technologies are discussed.
Building Automation and Control Systems for Healthcare in Smart Homes
Frenken, M. (author) / Flessner, J. (author) / Hurka, J. (author)
2017-01-01
33 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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