Cognitive Architecture Based Smart Homes for Smart Cities

The residential infrastructure is one of the key aspect in realization of sustainable smart cities. There is need of refurbishment of present residential infrastructure that plays a pivotal role in building future ultra-aware cities. The Home automation industry is now progressing towards an era that promises higher quality of living. For comfortable, convenient and assisted living Smart Home is an ideal solution. With the deployment of Internet of Things(IoT) and Information and Communication Technology(ICT) existing homes can be transformed into Smart Homes. There is a need of accurate prediction and analysis of data in Smart Homes. In this paper we provide a frame work for Smart Home based on IoT and ICT solutions with an aim towards achieving accurate Prediction, Analysis, Automation along with compatibility and usability for a smarter living. A 3 tier cognitive architecture consisting of Perception layer, Attention-Memory layer and Decision layer is proposed. ultimately, this architecture paves a way for future intelligent homes which might touch every facet of living.