Identify Activities of Daily Life in a Smart Home Environment with the Internet of Things

This research study aims to identify the daily activities of users in a smart home environment using IoT sensors. It explores opportunities for developing applications for smart homes.

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Identify Activities of Daily Life in a Smart Home Environment with the Internet of Things
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Table of Contents
1. Aims and Objectives....................................................................................................................3
1.1 Background of the study........................................................................................................3
1.2 Research aim and objectives..................................................................................................4
1.3 Research Questions................................................................................................................4
1.4 Justification for choosing the research topic.........................................................................5
2. Literature Review........................................................................................................................5
3. Methodology..............................................................................................................................16
3.1 Introduction..........................................................................................................................16
3.2 Research Philosophy............................................................................................................17
3.3 Research Approach..............................................................................................................18
3.4 Research Design..................................................................................................................19
3.5 Data Collection Method.......................................................................................................20
3.6 Data Analysis Methods........................................................................................................21
3.7 Ethical considerations..........................................................................................................25
3.8 Research Limitations...........................................................................................................25
4. Current progress, timeline, resource requirements and conclusion...........................................26
4.1 Current progress...................................................................................................................26
4.2 Timeline...............................................................................................................................28
4.3 Resource requirements.........................................................................................................32

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4.4 Conclusion...........................................................................................................................32
References......................................................................................................................................33

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1. Aims and Objectives
1.1 Background of the study
(Jacobsson, Boldt, & Carlsson, 2016) stated that development of Internet of Things (IoT)
was being considered as technology for the next generation. Due to advancement of the digital
technology, IoT becomes a realistic technology. Forecast of the future growth as well as
investment is being encouraged. (Kodali, Jain, Bose, & Boppana, 2017) argued that the key
approach of IoT is impression which is making different aspects of the customers. Application of
IoT is urban environment which is provided interest to the inhabitants. Smart city as well as
Home is ultimate objective for making better usage of availability of the resources and it
enhances quality of the services presented to people. It can lead to reduce operational cost of
facilities. Monitoring of the daily activities as well as generating wellness profile for people is a
key focus of this study (Santoso & Vun, 2015). The Smart City approach is used Smart Home
scenario but there are aspects of data analysis as well as machine learning which can define
facilities of the solutions related to Smart Home.
The Internet of Things (IoT) is referred to physical devices in entire world which are
connected to internet, collecting as well as sharing of data. There is addition of levels of digital
intelligence to the devices which would enable to communicate into real time data with no
human beings are involved (Yaqoob et al., 2017). It merges digital as well as physical world. The
smart home technology is to be taken so that it is provided with homeowner’s security,
convenience as well as energy efficiency by permitting to control over the smart home devices.
As a part of the internet of things (IoT), the smart home systems as well as devices are operated
together so that it can share the customer usage data among automation of the actions based on

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the preferences of homeowners (Stergiou, Psannis, Kim, & Gupta, 2018). One of the advantages
of home automation is that it can provide peace of the mind of thee homeowners, allowed to
monitor of homes remotely as well as countering of the issues. This type of smart home
automation provides monitoring which can help the seniors to stay at the home in safe position
rather than moving to the nursing home and requirement of 24*7 home cares. The smart home is
being accommodating with the user preferences (Lin & Bergmann, 2016). The home automation
is helped the customers to make improvement over the efficiency. The smart home system can
able to learn human behaviors as well as ensure that the house is being cooled by time they are
arriving home for the work. In this way, same benefit is to be going for the appliances
(Jacobsson & Davidsson, 2015). By means of the home automation, energy water as well as
other resources are to be used efficiently which can help to save natural resources as well as cost
for the customers.
1.2 Research aim and objectives
The aim of this research study is detecting everyday daily activities of the users into the
smart home by means of IoT sensors. Following are the list of the research objectives such as:
 To identify opportunities for developing applications for Smart Homes
 To identify daily activities of the users in Smart Home by means of IoT sensors
1.3 Research Questions
Following are the research questions based on selected research topic such as:
1. What are the opportunities for developing applications for the Smart Home?
2. What are daily activities of users in Smart Home of IoT sensors?

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1.4 Justification for choosing the research topic
The research topic “Identify Activities of Daily Life in a Smart Home Environment with
the Internet of Things”, is selected for this research study so that it can discuss on advancements
of the sensors as well as Internet off Things being provisioned the home automation. There are
various opportunities which are taken to develop the smart home applications. There are various
applications of smart home are being discussed in this research paper so that the reader can
understand the benefits of it to be used into the home. There are fixed sensors which are being
discussed in the study such as motion, light, pressure, ultrasound can collect information about
the user presence. The sensors are to be used for classification of the signal patterns for motion
of the users. The sensors are to be tried to collect signals as well as machine learning method is
to be used for identification of the action types. The study is to be taken so that there is
discussion for improving and providing better way to achieve the results as well as identify the
daily activities of people life. Various scenarios are to be discussed in this paper related to smart
home automation system by means of IoT.
2. Literature Review
According to (Gunge & Yalagi, 2016), smart home automation is one the practice of
utilizing the internet-based devices for remotely as well as automatically controlling the various
types of appliances including the lighting fixtures, control appliances, security system as well as
heating system around the home. The practices that are related with smart home automation or
various types of interconnectivity households including the lightening, heating as well as security
measures with the help of the internet is becoming very much popular (Hui, Sherratt, & Sánchez,
2017). The various types of advancements within the sensors as well as internet of things are

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generally provisioning the home automation successfully therefore there are a number of
opportunities for successfully developing the smart homes. On the other hand, it is stated by
(Asadullah & Ullah, 2017) that smart home is considered as one of the complex arrangement of
technologies that further helps in allowing the different home appliances in order to interconnect
as well as control the household-based elements with the help of proper mobile application
alongside the development of certain types of automated behavioural patterns such that the
possibility that is associated with complete automation mainly includes independent solutions
from different types of elements due to appropriate analysis of data.
It is opined by (Kodali et al., 2017) that due to increasing popularity of the various types
of technologies generally helps in suggesting that the various types of automated houses will
become integral for all the different types of individuals as internet within the various mobile
platforms. Moreover, it is found that smart home automation generally helps in tapping the high-
tech functionality. It is found that as the development of the technology generally continues to
expand such that the possibilities for the home automation of the consumers will generally
helpful in making the life much easier as well as enjoyable (Patchava, Kandala, & Babu, 2017).
It is found that the smart home automation with the help of internet of things generally helps in
managing the home devices, assists in maximizing the home security, controlling the home
automation as well as assists in increasing the energy efficiency by improving the functionality
of the various appliances.
According to (Jose, Malekian, & Ye, 2016), by smart homes helps in allowing avert
accidental house fires from various types of unintended ovens. It is found that these types of
homes generally help in allowing to keep the loved ones very much safe. Thus, it is analysed that
installation of the security system must be done properly that further allows the owners to

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successfully monitor the guests for providing proper alert such that that the various types of
suspicious activities can be detected. Moreover, the doors can be properly locked and the
cameras can be monitored from the phone by successfully creating proper as well as safer
environment for the family. In addition to this, it is opined by (Strengers & Strengers, 2016) that
smart home automation generally helps in increasing accessibility with the help of smart home
automation system. If any of the friend or the family members generally get disabled them the
use of smart home-based technologies generally helpful in providing proper quality of life by
successfully using the voice of the commands that further make the entire learning curve very
much easier for someone who is very much unfamiliar with the computers.
It is stated by (Mittal et al., 2016) that setting up proper automated system generally
helps in removing the various types of unnecessary stress from the individuals. As the entire
technology will generally move difficult and therefore it is necessary to make more difficult
tasks quite accessible that further helps in properly improving the flexibility for independence for
housing the people who generally might not be capable of taking care of the entire home
properly. In addition to this, it is analysed that smart home automation also assists in improving
the energy efficiency. It is stated by (Santoso & Vun, 2015) by considering many of the benefits
that can generally be achieved with the help of smart home technology generally includes ease as
well as accessibility. The utilization of smart home technology generally allows the various
appliances to work effectively with the very much least amount of the energy that is generally
required. Saving money on the bill is also necessary as well as helps in making entire procedure
quite easier (Feng, Setoodeh, & Haykin, 2017). There are a number of faucet technologies that
are generally helpful in maximizing the water usage by successfully shaping the individual

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droplets of water for successfully creating proper experience such that less water than everyday
will generally shower.
According to (Dorri, Kanhere, Jurdak, & Gauravaram, 2017) smart home helps in
offering enhanced energy efficiency such that the light off generally helps in shutting off the
lights quite automatically even there is no one within the room and as a result the thermostat can
generally be properly set for properly letting the indoor temperature drop in day before
successfully returning to the comfortable levels. All of the automated tasks are generally
considered to be very much modern as well as energy efficient that assists in saving the energy,
water by successfully reducing the strain that generally remains ion the various types of natural
resources (Lobaccaro, Carlucci, & Löfström, 2016). In addition to this, it is analysed that
convenience is considered as one of the greatest benefits that generally can be achieved with the
help of smart home automation by using the technology of internet of things. The smart homes
will generally give the users proper remote access to the entire system including the intercoms,
music as well as proper multimedia device within the entire home. It is analysed that integrated
hard drives assists in allowing the homeowners for watching video (Yassein, Mardini, & Khalil,
2016). All the smart home-based technologies generally help in streamlining different types of
common tasks.
In addition to this, it is opined by (Courreges, Oudji, Meghdadi, Brauers, & Kays, 2016)
that smart home helps in offering advanced security systems with the help of the cameras as well
as motion sensors that further assists in creating proper link between the local police station as
well as private security company. It is found that the smart home also utilizes proper key cards or
the procedure of fingerprint identification for the conventional looks that is generally quite

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harder for someone to successfully break it and therefore it is analysed that the smart automation
system with the help of internet of things technology helps in providing proper security.
According to (Hargreaves, Wilson, & Hauxwell-Baldwin, 2018), the project will identify
the daily life activities with the help of smart home environment in context to internet of things.
It is found that if an individual generally wake up by imagining that the person as dismissed the
morning alarm and immediately the alarm helps in sending signals for sending signal for coffee
maker that further ask the individual to be awake and brew the morning coffee that is ready.
Moreover, it also helps the keeping the heater on by warming up the water (Pavithra &
Balakrishnan, 2015). Once the work with the shower gets completed then the shower will pass
message to the toaster in order to toast the breakfast for that individual person. In addition to this,
it is found that the home automation system generally has water sprinkle that helps in checking
the weather conduction and helps in reflecting how much water should be poured on the plans
that are present in the lawn (Chahuara, Fleury, Portet, & Vacher, 2016). Thus, the example helps
in suggesting that the use of smart home generally assist in making the life of the individuals
very much easier.
It is opined by (Bhaskar, 2015), it can be imagined that the fridge can be able to
properly analyse what is present in the freeze due to smart home automation technology with the
help of IoT. After successfully analysing the items that are present within the freeze, it is quite
necessary to properly build a proper shopping list that is generally dependent on the previous
buying habits of the individual. It is analysed that even if the fridge does not able to properly
send the message that it does not have milk while the person is going for shopping and can be
able to get the milk from the mall (Louis, Caló, Leiviskä, & Pongrácz, 2015). Furthermore, it is
analysed that if the shopping trolley generally get vibrates then the screen which is generally

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mounted on the trolley generally assists in properly handling the display message that there is no
milk in the bridge and therefore after seeing the message the person that have gone for shopping
can make decision whether to buy milk or not.
It is opined by (Toschi, Campos, & Cugnasca, 2017) that smart home automation facility
within the help of internet of things generally utilizes smart toothbrushes which generally can
detect whether the teeth were brushed properly or not. It is found that smart toothbrushes
generally can go one step further and therefore the toothbrushes will also help in detecting the
healthiness of the teeth that further helps in telling the user when it is required to visit the dentist
and what type of issue or problem that the individual are facing (Pramanik, Rishikesh, Nagar,
Dwivedi, & Choudhury, 2016). Therefore, it is analysed that with the help of IoT technology, the
smart toothbrushes are generally helpful in reflecting the parts of the teeth that are not brushed as
well as different types of challenges as well as issues that generally occurs within the teeth.
In addition to this, it is analysed that the plates as well as bows from the dining table can
be properly identified with the help of smart home with the help of IoT. The plates as well as
bowls which are generally present are generally helpful in tracking what the person is mainly
eating (Ghazal & Al-Khatib, 2015). This is considered to be very much helpful as well as
beneficial for the diets however it was analysed that could generally be helpful in waving the
entire health system. In addition to this, it is analysed that it could further be helpful in properly
making the health insurance much cheaper for making the entire health effective (Kang, Moon,
& Park, 2017). Thus, it is analysed that smart home automation with the help of internet of things
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According to (Bhaskar, 2015), it is found that the coffee saucer is generally considered as
one of the tiny scales such that an individual is at a coffee shop. It is found that after finishing the
coffee if an individual puts the coffee cup down then a message will pop up that will help in
reflecting that as coffee is complete and does the individual wants another coffee (Lin &
Bergmann, 2016). If the individual clicks yes which reflects that the person wants another coffee
then another cup of coffee is generally ordered however if the individuals does not like coffee
then the perform will click the button no and as a result no coffee will be ordered. Another
example or benefit that is generally achieved due to the automation of smart home by utilizing
IoT technology will generally be helpful in building sleep cycle monitor. It is analysed that if a
plan with the neighbours is generally made to arrange one party where music will be played until
5 am in the morning for enjoying the party (Jacobsson & Davidsson, 2015). Then the bed will
generally helpful in telling the alarm to provide extra hour of sleep then the alarm will generally
helpful in changing the schedule such that if anyone have proper appointments. Moreover, it is
stated by (Schiefer, 2015) that if one is stepping out of the office for hailing within a cab for one
of the business meeting then Google calendar will generally provide scanned Gmail which
further will upload an entry for the meeting. It is identified that phone can be able to provide
information that further helps in reflecting that you are generally leaving the office and at the
same time at the front door the Google cap will generally get pulled.
Moreover, it is stated by (Alahakoon & Yu, 2016) that if the kitchen pipe is not working
and it faces a failure due to some technical error then within the smart home, the person who are
living within the home will get a text within their mobile phone that the pipes are not working
properly and therefore does the person wants to stop the flow of water. If the person will
generally click yes, then the entire flow of water will be sopped and if the they will use other

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option then the function will work as per their recommendation or suggestion (Alaa, Zaidan,
Zaidan, Talal, & Kiah, 2017). Therefore, it is analysed that the use of smart home automation
with the help of smart home technology will generally helpful in managing the operations quite
effectively.
Sensor Measurement Data format Advantage Disadvantage
Video cameras Human actions Image The main
advantage of
using the video
cameras is that it
generally assists
in providing
precise
information as
well as details.
According to
Cicielliet al.
(2017) there are a
number of risks as
well as challenges
that are associated
with the use of
video camera
sensors and the
risks include
privacy issues,
acceptability
issues as well as
various types of
computational
issues.
Microphones Voice detection Audio The microphone
sensors are
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generally
considered to be
very much
advantageous as
they assists in
providing certain
as well as rich
information that
are generally
related with
sound.
number of issues
that are associated
with the use of
microphone
sensor is that its
implementation is
quite difficult and
in additional to
this, it has high
computation cost
and generally face
a lot of
acceptability
issues and
challenges.
Simple binary
sensors
Object
interaction-based
detection as well
as location
identification
Categorial According to
(Son, Kim, Lee,
Cho, & Chong,
2016) the
utilization of
simple binary
sensors are cost
effective as well
as need very much
low maintenance
that is very much
It is identified
that use of simple
binary sensors
generally helps in
providing very
much simple as
well as limited
information the
for the purpose of
multi-user
monitoring based

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easy to install as
well as replace the
privacy and
sensitivity based
computation
requirements
activity(Soliman,
Abiodun,
Hamouda, Zhou,
& Lung, 2013).
RFID User identification Categorial It is identified
that the small size
as well as low cost
are generally
considered as one
of the important
advantage of
using the RFID
sensor
The major
disadvantage that
is generally
achieved includes
reader collision as
well as tag
collision as well
as they are very
much range
limited (Porter &
Heppelmann,
2015).
Temperature or
humidity sensor
Environmental
parameters
Time-series They generally
have very much
intuitive
monitoring as well
as environment
based objects that
are generally
considered to be
The main
disadvantage that
is mainly
associated with
the humidity
sensor is that
generally provides
very much limited

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one of the
important
advantages of this
specific sensor.
information in
context to various
types of activity
monitoring.
Wearable
inertial sensors
Acceleration
orientation
Time-series They generally
have very much
compact size, low
cost, high
accuracy as well
as unique
identification for
the users as they
can generally be
tracked (Mohanty,
Choppali, &
Kougianos, 2016).
The main
disadvantage of
using this
particular sensor
is that they are
cumbersome as
well as very much
uncomfortable
and are not
helpful in
providing proper
information
Both the smart homes as well as IoT are generally creating a buzz within the IT industry.
It is found that the daily lives of the people have generally made very much simpler, better as
well as much more comfortable with the increment within the number of smart homes as well as
different types of connected devices. It is sated by (Teslyuk et al., 2018) for the purpose of
convenience, it is found that the access to the digital footprint would be worse with the use of
various types of social security based numbers. While successfully shaping the industry, it is
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can generally have a positive or negative effect (Saad Al-Sumaiti, Ahmed, & Salama, 2014). The
future is not generally dependent on the appliances which are generally powered but there is a
number of misunderstanding which are generally associated with the appliances that are
generally operated with the help of IoT. Smart home should know the entire procedure of
training off the light to the moments as well as deactivating the face recognition and much more
(Ransing & Rajput, 2015).The utilization of surveillance cameras is on the ascent, and
individuals are utilizing it to have an eye on their property. With legitimate IoT combination, it
will be conceivable to get risk alarms consequently, and in the event that something turns out
badly, it will proactively aware us for the circumstance. This will have a lot of impact on remote
video observing.
It is stated by (Gunge & Yalagi, 2016) that from the perspective of homemaker, the
consumers generally get excited to the new ways that are helpful in controlling the home
actively. The surveillance off he home is considered to be important and working on such
appliances is considered to be good that further depends on the appliances that generally takes
the major workload. The most important thing that is associated with the smart home automation
is that the technology will generally share data with the people who are associated with the
business. This type of data can also be collected with the help of the consumers by utilizing
different types of user friendly products (Ford, Pritoni, Sanguinetti, & Karlin, 2017). Moreover,
efficiency, customization as well as control of the smart home automation also increase due to
the use of smart home automation. Additionally, it is found that with the large number of smart
home devices, the companies are generally planning to move forward for building up proper as
well as excellent customer based service.

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3. Methodology
3.1 Introduction
This particular chapter is required to carry out the research study in a proper way.
Selection of the research methodology is a part to undertake research studies to apply suitable
techniques as well as methods which are appropriate for identifying activities of daily life in
Smart Home Environment with the Internet of Things. Selection of proper research method is
required to gain relevant results as well as outcome of research process such that there is meeting
of the research objectives. The research methodology chapter is helped to understand entire
procedures which are being adopted to analyze the research processes linked in Smart Home
Environment with the Internet of Things. The research methodology is helped to avoid the errors
which can create a limit in the research processes. The selected methods can provide a better
evaluation of the methods for optimizing the Smart Home Environment with IoT.
3.2 Research Philosophy
The research methodology is involved application of proper research philosophy as it is
utilized to determine needed manner to gain details of the selected research topic. It helps to gain
an in-depth understanding of the concepts linked with the selected research topic. Selection of
the research philosophy is important as it is explained with various assumptions which are
undertaken by the researcher to conduct this particular research paper (Kumar, 2011). Process to
select the research philosophy is based on evaluating the selected topic which is based on nature
of this study as well as kind of research topic which are being selected to keep accurate
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Positivism research philosophy is dealt with application as well as use of the logic for
data analysis for the hidden facts as well as figures that the information is being associated with
research topic by affecting of the scientific way (Akbarian, 2017). Positivism approaches are
used to dominate by using proper methods and procedures, however it is considered as a
potential to provide detailed information for the selected research topic. Interpretivism is used as
research philosophy which supported epistemology where a critical structure is involved to
analyse the social world and aspects. Interpretative research philosophy is used to define
particular objects by means of concepts plus theories linked with the natural law (Maxwell &
Reybold, 2015). Realism research philosophy is taken as mixed approach which can incorporate
traits from positivism as well as interpretivism research philosophies.
Justification for selecting philosophy
Positivism research is analysed of the hidden aspects plus information linked with the
process to undertake by the researcher to apply smart home environment by means of IoT. The
selected philosophy is used to analyse hidden facts plus information linked with the smart home
environment. The nature of this study is considered as time limited so that the study is being
discarded as chose research philosophy. It can limit role of researcher to evaluate data which can
lead to reduce errors of data.
3.3 Research Approach
(Flick, 2014) stated that research approach is applied to guide researcher such that they
can formulate and conduct researcher to yield successful project outcomes. There is describing of
practical application of the theories related to the study so that the researcher can gain access to
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well as inductive approaches. As per the deductive approach, it is started with research statement
plus research questions to answer to the identified questions (Tate et al., 2016). This selected
research approach method is selected to convert theory related to the research question. The data
are to be collected from the data sets gathered from the journal articles.
Justification for selecting approach
In this study, deductive research approach is to be taken into consideration for the
selected topic with the Smart Home Environment. The research work is being performed with
practical analysis of collected as well as raw data. There are different methods which are taken to
apply the Smart Home Environment by means of IoT. This approach is to be taken to implement
and understand the techniques to get deeper insights related to the research topic in
comprehensive method.
3.4 Research Design
There is selection of the research design which is being applied for undertaking the
research so that it can provide and guide with theoretical as well as conceptual framework for
evaluating the topic. This particular process is helped to select best method of the data collection
as well as analysis of the data (Alvesson & Sköldberg, 2018). Exploratory research design is
taken into consideration for acknowledging various ideas as well as thoughts required to
complete the research paper. Explanatory research design is to be concerned to describe
occurrence of events as well as incidents which can influence and hold an impact on outcomes of
this particular development study (Ghauri & Gronhaug, 2010). Descriptive research design is to
be taken into consideration so that it can acquire details as well as information to understand the
occurrence of the events which can show accurate description of the research study. This

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research design method is based on rationalizing existing practices so that it can undertake
decisions needed to analyze the topic.
Justification for selecting design
Explanatory research design is not to be taken for this particular study as it can support a
longitudinal study. The descriptive research design is to be selected with different aspects plus
areas linked with field of the research study. It is taken to provide detailed process involve to
investigate smart home environment in IoT. The research design is to be taken into consideration
for finishing structure of the study in scheduled timeframe. This particular research design is to
be taken to define detailed procedures involved with application of the smart home environment.
Throughout usage of the research design procedures, the study is to be undertaken as well as
justifiable. The design is provided with detailed procedures which are involved with the smart
home environment by means of IoT.
3.5 Data Collection Method
The data critical to conduct the study as it is dealing with the research approaches to
collect relevant information as well as facts required to get a conclusion with proper details. The
data collection is being taken into consideration for deriving proper as well as accurate results
from the entire research process. The data is to be taken into consideration for collecting as well
as gathering information related to the topic. It is used to reduce errors where no such proper data
ensures that the data gathered is high plus accessible.
The data sources are to be taken to conduct a proper penetration based on the selected
research topic. In this research study, secondary data analysis method is selected where the data

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sets based on selected topic is to be taken into consideration. The existing data is to be collected
from different sources in this research study with a purpose to widen research concept as well as
ideas related with the Smart Home Environment. It is enabled accurate study of aspects as well
as factors which are to be taken to involve with detailed description plusinformation. The data
setshelped to gain data based on selected research objectives. The literature sources are to be
taken so that output of information are to be taken via peer reviewed journal articles on smart
home environment. The secondary sources are to be taken from online as well as offline sources
like journal articles, books and blogs (Fletcher, 2017). The data collection methods are to be
taken into considerations which can enable better study of the selected topic as it is involved with
data plus descriptions.
3.6 Data Analysis Methods
Into the data analysis methods, usage of qualitative data is to be taken to record opinions
as well as thoughts of concerned people in narrative form such that the information is to be taken
to describe entire aspects of research topic to serve purpose of this research study. Qualitative
data is benefited the research study as it can add value to the theoretical concepts that can lead to
the research study towards the research conclusion. Quantitative data analysis process is to be
taken into consideration so that it can deal with application of the statistical methods as well as
approaches by gathering numerical samples of the data gathered from larger sample size. The
data analysis method is to be taken into consideration for regression analysis for analysing the
collected data throughout using the primary data collection method.
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i. The experiments are to be carried out with group of 30 volunteers in age bracket of
around 19-48 years.
ii. Each of the persons are performing six activities such as walking, walking upstairs,
walking downstairs, sitting, standing and laying by means of wearing Smartphone on the
waist.
iii. By using accelerometer as well as gyroscope, the researcher has captured 3-axial linear
acceleration as well as 3-axial angular velocity at constant rate of 50Hz. The experiments
are to be done video recorded to label data manually.
iv. The gathered dataset is randomly partitioned in two sets where 70% of volunteers were
being selected to generate training data plus 30% for testing data.
v. The sensor signals were being pre-processed by means of noise filters as well as sampled
into fixed width sliding windows of approximately 2.56 sec as well as 50% of overlap
(128 readings / window).
vi. The sensor acceleration signals contain gravitional as well as body motion components
which were separated by Butterworth low-pass filter into acceleration plus gravity of
body.
vii. The gravitational force is to be assumed to contain low frequency components; thus a
filter with 0.3 Hz cutoff frequency was being used.
viii. From each of the window, a vector of features was found by calculating the variables
from the time plus frequency domain.
Attribute information are:
For each record into the data set, it provides:

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The researcher has taken information from the link:
https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/human+activity+recognition+using+smartphones.
By using python, the data analysis procedures are to be undertaken. The sensors are to be
tried to collect signals as well as machine learning method is to be used for identification of the
action types. In order to analyse the collected data, there are two data which are to be taken for
this particular research study such as:
Training Data: (6999, 563)
Testing Data: (2499, 563)
Screenshot 1: Training and testing data value

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Screenshot 2: Factors of smart home environment
From the analysis of the considered dataset, it is found that it contained records about the
activities like laying (19.17%), SITTING (19.10%), STANDING (17.53%), WALKING
(16.59%), WALKING_DOWSTAIRS (14.40%) and WALKING Upstairs (13.20%).
Screenshot 3: Object of 3 articles

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From the above bar chart, it can be stated that maximum number of records are collected from
Accelerometer and the second highest is Gyroscope sensor.
There are total 30 subjects are considered for the recording of the different values from the
accelerometer and other sensors.

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There are total four methods used for the analysis which are support vector classifier, Logistic
regression, K nearest neighbours and Random forest. In all these methods the Linear regression
model provided highest accuracy for this analysis.
3.7 Ethical considerations
The research study is to be taken which is followed code of conduct to maintain the
research ethics. The research ethics are required to identify right set of the behaviours. The
ethical principles are to be taken for this research study such as the participants those are
involved into this research study are not pressurized anyway. The application of gathered as well
as collected data is academic purposes so that there are no such commercial applications which
are required into this research study. The secondary data are to be collected based on maintaining
anonymity of the respondents. The information is to be taken and it is not disclosed with any
such consent.

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3.8 Research Limitations
The research limitations which are taken into consideration are not common which can
define area with the restricted scope of this research study. The areas which are encountered with
research limitations are enlisted as that the participants those are involved into process are not
involved in pressure. There are issues related to reliability as well as validity presented into the
research study. Because of the cross sectional nature of the study, the researcher has limited time
to study the work in shorter period of the time. There should be deeper details as well as analysis
of the study which is not analysed due to cross sectional study. Into the limited constraints of the
budget, the researcher is faced limitations into the study related to the topic. There is lack of
budget included into the study due t which other analysis methods such as SPSS analysis is not
taken into considerations. Therefore, there is problem related to quality analysis with better
statistical tool applications.
4. Current progress, timeline, resource requirements and conclusion
4.1 Current progress
Following table will show the list of the research activities as well as the progress
percentage of each activities which are shown as:
WBS Task Name % Complete
0
Identify Activities of Daily Life in a Smart Home Environment
with the Internet of Things
82%
1 Research planning 100%

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1.1 Selection of the research topic 100%
1.2 Perform research on the topic 100%
1.3
Going through various sources to collect data related to selected
research topic
100%
1.4 Creating a layout of the research topic 100%
1.5 Identify the research aim and objectives 100%
1.6 Identify the research questions 100%
1.7 Milestone 1: Completion of research planning phase 100%
2 Literature review 100%
2.1 Formation of the research plan 100%
2.2 Perform the literature gap 100%
2.3 Identify the sources which are required to collect data 100%
2.4 Milestone 2: Completion of literature review phase 100%
3 Research methodology 100%
3.1 Perform the data collection 100%
3.2 Collect the data sets 100%
3.3 Selection of proper research methods 100%

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3.4 Secondary data analysis 100%
3.5 Analysis and interpret of the data collection 100%
3.6 Findings of the collected data 100%
3.7 Milestone 3: Completion of research methodology phase 100%
4 Research closure phase 0%
4.1 Identify the main findings of the research study 0%
4.2 Conclusion of the research study 0%
4.3 Milestone 4: Completion of closure phase 0%
4.2 Timeline
In form of the Gantt chart, the research timeline is being provided which shows
completion plan as part of the review of research milestones for illustration of the different
stages as well as activities of the research study. The Gantt chart will help the researcher to plan
the project activities, communicate with the team as well as help to track the project progress.
The chart is used to keep track of progress, allowed to better understand track as the progress
into the research as well as enable to redirect efforts plus take proper actions as possible.
WBS Task Name Duration Start Finish
0 Identify Activities of Daily Life in a 71 days Mon 3/25/19 Mon 7/1/19

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Smart Home Environment with the
Internet of Things
1 Research planning 15 days Mon 3/25/19 Fri 4/12/19
1.1 Selection of the research topic 2 days Mon 3/25/19 Tue 3/26/19
1.2 Perform research on the topic 3 days Wed 3/27/19 Fri 3/29/19
1.3
Going through various sources to
colleect data related to selected
research topic
4 days Mon 4/1/19 Thu 4/4/19
1.4 Creating a layout of the research
topic 2 days Fri 4/5/19 Mon 4/8/19
1.5 Identify the research aim and
objectives 2 days Tue 4/9/19 Wed 4/10/19
1.6 Identify the research questions 2 days Thu 4/11/19 Fri 4/12/19
1.7 Milestone 1: Completion of
research planning phase 0 days Fri 4/12/19 Fri 4/12/19
2 Literature review 11 days Mon 4/15/19 Mon 4/29/19
2.1 Formation of the research plan 5 days Mon 4/15/19 Fri 4/19/19
2.2 Perform the literature gap 2 days Mon 4/22/19 Tue 4/23/19
2.3 Identify the sources which are
required to collect data 4 days Wed 4/24/19 Mon 4/29/19
2.4 Milestone 2: Completion of
literature review phase 0 days Mon 4/29/19 Mon 4/29/19
3 Research methodology 32 days Tue 4/30/19 Wed 6/12/19
3.1 Perform the data collection 2 days Tue 4/30/19 Wed 5/1/19
3.2 Colleect the data sets 5 days Thu 5/2/19 Wed 5/8/19
3.3 Selection of proper research
methods 8 days Thu 5/9/19 Mon 5/20/19

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3.4 Secondary data analysis 8 days Tue 5/21/19 Thu 5/30/19
3.5 Analysis and interpret of the data
collection 3 days Fri 5/31/19 Tue 6/4/19
3.6 Findings of the collected data 6 days Wed 6/5/19 Wed 6/12/19
3.7 Milestone 3: Completion of
research methodology phase 0 days Wed 6/12/19 Wed 6/12/19
4 Research closure phase 13 days Thu 6/13/19 Mon 7/1/19
4.1 Identify the main findings of the
research study 4 days Thu 6/13/19 Tue 6/18/19
4.2 Conclusion of the research study 9 days Wed 6/19/19 Mon 7/1/19
4.3 Milestone 4: Completion of
closure phase 0 days Mon 7/1/19 Mon 7/1/19

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Figure 1: Gantt chart

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4.3 Resource requirements
The resources which are required for conducting the work are researcher who will
conduct the entire work so that the work is to be completed on scheduled time. Then, laptop, Pcs
are used to collect the data and store into it related to selected research topic.
4.4 Conclusion
It is concluded that in order to maintain a comfortable living conditions in the home,
therefore is monitoring as well as automating of the home. There are standards of the human
comfort into the homes. It is related to temperature as well as humidity which are followed by
the visual comfort, related to the hygienic comfort plus associated with the quality of air. The
smart home system is used to monitor the parameters for helping to maintain in acceptable
ranges. The home automation is being accomplished by means of internet of things. The house
smart is allowed for automatic execution of various commands after analyzing of gathered data.
Automation is being accomplished by means of Internet of Things (IoT). There is inhabitant
access to data into the house as well as capability to control the parameters remotely. The
proposed home automation design is used a platform to collect as well as visualize monitored
data as well as remote control of the home appliances plus devices. All of the automated tasks
are generally considered to be very much modern as well as energy efficient that assists in saving
the energy, water by successfully reducing the strain that generally remains ion the various types
of natural resources.

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