Special Issue of Proceedings of the IEEE Explores What Puts the ‘Smart’ in ‘Smart Homes’
Piscataway, N.J. – December 10, 2013 – It’s the Jetsons’ dream: to live in a home that anticipates and fulfills every need of its inhabitants. In its most recent special issue, the electrical engineering and computer science journal Proceedings of the IEEE explores the technologies that underpin that dream, and how smart homes are moving from science fiction to reality. What makes a home smart? The issue’s guest editors write in the introduction that a smart home provides its inhabitants with conveniences throughout the home, including health monitoring,