2017/05/26 by Zhongliang Zhao, Stephane Kuendig, Zhao, Zhongliang +9
Computer Science · Engineering · #Bluetooth and Wireless Communication Technologies #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Electrical engineering #Indoor and Outdoor Localization Technologies #IoT-based Smart Home Systems #Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI) #Systems and Control (eess.SY) #electronic engineering #information engineering
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1705.09543
openalex publication_date 2017/05/26 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Smart environments interconnect indoor building environments, indoor wireless sensor and actuator networks, smartphones, and human together to provide smart infrastructure management and intelligent user experiences. To enable the "smart" operations, a complete set of hardware and software components are required. In this work, we present Smart Syndesi, a system for creating indoor location-aware smart building environments using wireless sensor and actuator networks (WSANs). Smart Syndesi includes an indoor tracking system, a WSAN for indoor environmental monitoring and activation automation, and a gateway interconnecting WSAN, tracking system with mobile users.The indoor positioning system tracks the real-time location of occupants with high accuracy, which works as a basis for indoor location-based sensor actuation automation.To show how the multiple software/hardware components are integrated, we implemented the system prototype and performed intensive experiments in indoor office environments to automate the indoor location-driven environmental sensor monitoring and activation process. The tracked indoor location of a user's smartphone triggers the retrieval of environmental measurements and activates the actuators automatically (i.e. turn on/off lights, switch on/off fans) based on the location and correlated environmental sensor information.