Smart home technology

Planning and management in municipal services.
Smart home technology
Smart home technology, front page.

IS-1216E
Year of production: 2004
Year of English translation: 2005
Pages: 52
Language: English

This guidelines provides an introduction to smart home technology and its use as part of the municipal services. The objective is to enable the reader to independently consider his needs and to participate in making specifications meeting these needs. Hence we aim at giving inputs to the practical work on planning, installing and managing smart home technology.

The target groups for the guidelines include those participating in planning, installing and management of smart home technology for elderly and disabled people. This includes staff in technical departments, IT-departments, nursing and care departments, decision-making authorities on municipal level as well as users of smart home technology.

From the contents:

  • The use of smart home technology
  • Description of the technologies
  • Ethics and law
  • Types of housing
  • User requirements and specification of requirements
  • Success criteria
  • Forms used in assessing user needs