ITR/IM+SI - MavHome: Development of an Intelligent Home Environment

MavHome项目将智能家居视为一种智能代理，它能够通过使用传感器感知环境，并通过使用执行器对环境采取行动。住宅有总体目标，例如将住宅的维护成本降至最低，并最大限度地提高居民的舒适度和生产率。为了实现这些目标，房屋必须能够使用数据库、机器学习、多代理系统、机器人学、智能传感器、无线移动计算和多媒体计算的知识来推理和适应信息。在水电费变得令人望而却步的情况下，智能家居可能会将家庭运营成本降至最低，并可以帮助残疾人独立生活。通过大学访客计划、少数族裔招募、课程开发和成果传播，该项目将影响“智能空间技术”领域的研究和教育。

The MavHome project views a smart home as an intelligent agent, which is able to perceive its environment through the use of sensors and act upon the environment through the use of actuators. The home has overall goals, such as minimizing the cost of maintaining the home and maximizing the comfort and productivity of its inhabitants. In order to meet these goals, the house must be able to reason about and adapt to information using knowledge about databases, machine learning, multiagent systems, robotics, smart sensors, wireless mobile computing, and multimedia computing. Smart homes can potentially minimize home operating costs in a time when utilities fees are becoming prohibitive, and can assist individuals with disabilities to lead independent lives. Through the university visitor program, minority recruitment, course development, and dissemination of results, the project will impact research and education in the area of "smart space technologies."