Simulation of a smart home environment

Abstract

This research will focus on options to reduce the complexity and cost of designing and evaluating smart homes by developing a residential environment and ambient sensor simulator that can respond to different movements of people. The map editor is used to create and save different types of floor plans, including existing furniture or appliances and to add ambient sensors in a 2-dimensional (2D) model. The WSN simulator provides the ability to simulate the resident's movement through the residential environment, as defined by the 2D model, and monitor how ambient sensors respond in a binary (on/off) manner to the resident's movement.