Smart Cities

Chapter 21Building Cyber-Physical Systems – A Smart Building Use Case

Jupiter Bakakeu, Franziska Schäfer, Jochen Bauer, Markus Michl and Jörg Franke

Institute for Factory Automation and Production Systems (FAPS), Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

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Foundations – From Automation to Smart Homes

From Today's Technologically Augmented Houses to Tomorrow's Smart Homes

Smart Home: A Cyber-Physical Ecosystem

Connecting Smart Homes and Smart Cities

Conclusion and Future Research Focus

Objectives

• • To become familiar with the concepts of Building automation, home automation, smart homes, smart living, ambient assisted living (AAL) and smart cities.
• • To become familiar with the concepts of cyber-physical system (CPS), internet-of-things (IoT), self-organization and multi-agent systems (MAS) in a smart-home environment.
• • To have a good understanding of the challenges of building smart home and smart building.
• • To become familiar with the main use cases and scenarios of smart homes and smart buildings.
• • To become familiar with the state-of-the-art smart homes solutions and their limitations.
• • To provide an example of a smart home implementation based on self-organization principles.

In recent years, the paradigm of CPS finds its way in many sectors of society. In the field of production technology, self-organizing decentralized systems based on CPS are the central part of visions for automated production called Industry 4.0 in Germany [1] ...