۱- Introduction

۲- Background

۳- Proposed research

۴- Conclusions

۵- References

Abstract

The conception of smart homes exceeds the boundaries of a simple design process. It becomes mainly a managerial, multidisciplinary process in which added value depends on the measure in which these answer, in an adequate manner, to a set of requirements raised by a target group of users and stakeholders with specific needs. The paper proposes a methodology for functional analysis of smart living spaces that combines a multi-level approach for its structure with FAST (Functional Analysis System Technique). A generic functional scheme for a smart living space is defined and explained, and then, for illustrative purposes, this scheme is customized for the functional analysis of two smart systems of the mentioned space: illumination, and safety/security.

Introduction

In today’s economic world the design and development process is bound to cope with the pressure to continuously improve products and services. The architectural and construction fields are no exception in this respect. Increasing customer and user demands and market competition, raising requirements for sustainability and inclusion, plus the rapid progress of knowledge and technology, all together lead to an increase of the complexity and, implicitly, of the difficulty of decisions in the mentioned field (The World Bank 2015) In the actual architectural and urbanistic landscape, smart technologies are more and more present both at the large-scale of smart cities (National League of Cities 2017) that are using ICT for building an infrastructure to continuously improve the collection, aggregation, and use of data to improve the life of their residents”, at the medium scale of smart buildings, able to adapt their characteristics and facilities for optimizing the energy consumptions and functional costs, and at the small scale of smart spaces and smart objects, highly connected and capable to interact in an intelligent way with the life of their inhabitants.