ABSTRACT
A smart home is an application enabled by ubiquitous computing in which the home environment is monitored by ambient intelligence to provide context-aware services and facilitate remote home control. With the recent developments in the Information and Communication Technologies and the reduction in the costs of low-powered electronics, a new technology has drawn the attention of the research community, namely the Internet of Things (IoT). The concept of smart homes is considered as an IoT-based application enabled by connecting the home appliances to the Internet. The chapter provides an overview of the IoT-based smart homes, the sensor types that can be deployed, the enabling standards, and the cloud architecture of a smart home. It also provides an overview the different types of sensors used in smart homes. The chapter discusses the communicating protocols and how they work. It proposes the common applications that can be deployed in smart homes. The chapter also discusses the cloud architecture for smart homes.
