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

MavHome项目将智能家居视为智能代理，它能够通过使用传感器感知其环境，并通过使用执行器对环境采取行动。家庭有总体目标，例如最大限度地降低维护家庭的成本，最大限度地提高居住者的舒适度和生产力。为了实现这些目标，房子必须能够利用数据库、机器学习、多智能体系统、机器人技术、智能传感器、无线移动的计算和多媒体计算等知识来推理和适应信息。智能家居可以在公用事业费用变得令人望而却步的时候最大限度地降低家庭运营成本，并可以帮助残疾人过上独立的生活。 通过大学访问者计划、少数民族招募、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."