Smart Life and Smart Life Engineering: Current State and Future Vision [Hardcover]

This open access book defines the field of Smart Life and Smart Life Engineering, identifying a clear scope of what constitutes smart in the context of digital technologies, develops a cross-field perspective, provides insights into various related disciplines, and offers illustrative examples of existing works in the field.

To this end, it contains thirteen chapters divided into four parts: Fundamentals of Smart Life and Smart Life Engineering begins with an exploration of the concept of Smart Life, defines a detailed taxonomy of smart applications and their evolution over time, and, finally, delivers a comprehensive review of social, behavioral, and ethical considerations. Next, Conceptual Contributions to Smart Life explores innovative ideas in smart environment, smart home, smart city, and smart tourism. Subsequently, Smart Life Applications examines real-world implementations and their impact on various domains including viticulture, elevators, and overtourism. Eventually, Experience Reports of Smart Life Applications presents smart city experiences of the cities of Leuven and Monserrate respectively.

Written for researchers and industrial professionals from a very large set of fields, this book explores the fascinating domain of smart technologies and their impact on our daily lives and brings together the works around societal, methodological, and technological aspects of Smart Life.

Part I - Fundamentals of Smart Life and Smart Life Engineering.- 1. Exploring Smart Life.- 2. Taxonomy of the Scientific Domain of Smart Life.- 3. Evolution of the Scientific Domain of Smart Life.- 4. A Review of Social, Behavioural, and Ethical Considerations for Smart Life Engineering.- Part II - Conceptual Contributions to Smart Life.- 5. Smart Environments: Implications for Environmental Governance.- 6. Im Afraid HAL Cant Do That: Why Your l‚