A demonstration of PyViz, a flexible smart home visualization tool

—As smart home technologies continue to be deployed in research and real world environments, there continues to be a need for quality visualization of the smart home data. This data come from a variety of sensor sources, artificial intelligence algorithms and human feedback. Building tools that are easily configured, rapidly developed and capable of communicating with both real time and historical data is ever challenging. This work introduces PyViz, a smart home focused middleware interactive interface. PyViz is the result of several years of testing and development in a large smart home research project. During its development, issues of configuration, ease of use and adaptability have been addressed. The demonstration of this tool hopes to enlighten the audience about the facets of user interfaces, network agents and smart home complexity.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2011
• Where: PERCOM
• Authors: Brian L. Thomas, Aaron S. Crandall
• Keywords: Computer Networks, Intelligence Algorithms, PERCOM 2011, Quality Visualization, Smart Home Technologies