Monitoring room for smart living

Changes in the Conditions Surrounding Housing

  • Increased risks such as new infectious diseases and climate change have made it necessary to constantly prepare for unexpected changes in the living environment.
  • People are spending more time at home due to the increasing prevalence of working and studying from home.
  • Advances in information and communication technologies will make possible …
    • New on-demand residential lifestyle services, such as food delivery services, will emerge one after another
    • Diversified forms of employment and schooling, including hybrid forms with working and studying from home
    • Housing facilities will evolve in performance in a short period of time due to electronic control, and their replacement cycle shall be shortened for better living

Housing for “longer stay”

  • Spatial design that allows multiple people to spend time together in different ways without stress even if they live together for a long time
  • Environmental design that allows people to spend long periods of time in good health

“Changeable” housing

  • Versatile housing space that can be used even as demands change
  • Standard operating procedure that can be used without confusion even after updating housing facilities

Networking with open technology

  • By recognizing the context, the entire house collaborates to create an ideal living environment
  • Capability to create new housing functions by combining the existing functions of individual home appliances
  • Capability to use external network in a convenient manner

Housing OS— Platform for HaaS concept realization

Netoworking with open technology

  • Actively incorporate open cloud services, open data, etc.
  • Actively make available the functions of this house to promote collaboration with external services

Placement of IoT sensors in various locations

  • Air quality sensors for temperature, humidity, PM2.5, etc.
  • Millimeter wave radars
  • Motion analysis cameras
  • Thermal image sensors

Establishment of integrated user interface

  • Integrated voice control of housing functions through active use of smart speakers
    • AV, hot water supply, lighting, air conditioning, alarm, and timer
  • Automatically create a comfortable environment by the collaboration of many housing functions through context awareness realized from IoT sensor data and learning
    • Illuminance, color temperature, ambient light, temperature, humidity, ventilation, and radiant heat management
  • Advice on sustainable living, including environment and health, based on context awareness
    • Reporting and advice on electricity consumption
    • Assessment of human body condition, including body temperature, and quality of sleep
    • Identification and reporting of accidents at home, such as the detection of falls
    • Prevention of heat shock by detecting and warning of uneven temperature distribution
    • Detection and warning of open flames by sensing temperature abnormalities
  • Updating housing functions through programming
    • Holistic environmental setting such as work and relaxation scenes
    • Contactless housing operation for infection prevention
  • Flexible inter-device collaboration function that can accommodate new devices
  • Information mirror to realize a “notification” function for the entire housing

“Customized model” with interior design and smart technology to meet the homeowner’s needs

API integration of housing facilities

  • Robotic furniture, air conditioners, curtains, lighting, etc. can be controlled by means of API integration
  • Facilities can be controlled via smart speakers, smartphones, etc.
  • Various sensors are installed to measure human flow, temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, and CO2

101　Model for households raising one young child

Key points of Smart Housing

  • Standard user interface platform enables even novice programmers to design collaboration of housing facilities
  • Dual electronically controlled doors provide a safe, smart unattended delivery space
  • Robotic furniture functions as a bed, sofa, telework space partition and large storage
    • Automated furniture turns a small space into multipurpose spaces
    • Best use of a small space for storage based on robotic furniture

102　Model for households of an elderly couple

Key points of Smart Housing

  • Voice-centric, easy-to-use user interface, even for those unfamiliar with digital operation
  • Robotic furniture at the entrance serves both as an automatic door friendly to the elderly and as a smart locker
  • Robotic furniture functions as a large storage space and as a partition wall separating a tatami bed, small room, and telework space
    • Automated transformable furniture that turns a small space into multipurpose spaces
    • Best use of a small space for storage based on robotic furniture

“Basic model” incorporating smart technology into standard UR rental housing

Key points of Smart Housing

  • Smart locks, air conditioners, curtains, and lighting can be controlled by means of API integration
  • They are controlled via tablet or other interface
  • Sensors are installed to measure temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, and CO2

301　Model for households of young singles

302　Model for households of late middle age partners

Sponsors

  • Azbil Kimmon Co., Ltd.
  • DAIWA HOUSE INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
  • Fujita Corporation
  • JS Corporation
  • Kawamura Electric Inc.
  • LEAD inc
  • LIXIL Corporation
  • MARUICHI CORPORATION
  • Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Company, Limited
  • MIWA LOCK Co.,LTD.
  • Noritz Corporation
  • Osaka Gas Co., Ltd.
  • Shibutani Co., Ltd.
  • Sumitomo Densetsu Co.,Ltd.
  • Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Incorporated
  • WOOD ONE CO.,LTD.

The companies that provided equipment, facilities, etc. for the concept room built this time or for the test room in INIAD are listed.