Conference: “The connected apartment: why and how?”

First evening of the 2019 series "Thursday Lectures" at the Montpellier Institute of Botany, 163 Rue Auguste Broussonnet, Montpellier.
Free admission.

This conference will be moderated by:

• Alain Foucaran, professor at the University of Montpellier, Director of the Institute of Electronics and Systems (IES) and co-initiator of the project;
• Anne-Sophie Cases, professor at the University of Montpellier (IAE – Institute of Business Administration). She is responsible for the Master's programs in "e-Marketing" and "Web Project Management";
• Malo Depincé, lecturer at the University of Montpellier and deputy director of the "Dynamics of Law" laboratory. A specialist in consumer and competition law, he coordinates the HUT project.

Together, they will present the "HUmans at home projecT – HUT" project, which aims to examine and understand the conditions related to the well-being of residents in the smart homes of the future:

• What is our relationship with the homes of tomorrow, and how will we live in the future?
• What will living conditions be like in the typical home of the future: a potentially urban apartment equipped with numerous sensors, actuators, and analysis systems?
• What is possible, desirable, and acceptable in terms of contributing to well-being in the smart home of the future?

HUT takes a multidisciplinary approach to addressing major scientific questions related to the homes of tomorrow:

• What connected information will we share? How and why?
• How do we interact with smart homes?
• How can technology improve our living conditions?
• What future legislative framework for the housing of the future?

HUT brings together scientists from 12 research laboratories and 8 innovative companies: researchers specializing in sensors, data, language, movement, commerce, etc. Architects, lawyers, historians, and psychologists have come together to understand and design the apartment of the future for the occupant of the future, based on an innovative experimental device.

Read the related article “Human at Home: towards humane and intelligent housing”