Smart technologies are significant in supporting ageing in place for elderly. Leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), it provides peace of mind, enabling the elderly to continue living independently. Elderly use smart technologies for entertainment and social interactions, this can be extended to provide safety and monitor health and environmental conditions, detect emergencies and notify informal and formal caregivers when care is needed. This paper provides an overview of the smart home technologies commercially available to support ageing in place, the advantages and challenges of smart home technologies, and their usability from elderlys perspective. Synthesizing prior knowledge, we created a structured Smart Home Goal Feature Model (SHGFM) to resolve heuristic approaches used by the Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) at aged care facilities and healthcare researchers in adapting smart homes. The SHGFM provides SMEs the ability to (i) establish goals and (ii) identify features to set up strategies to design, develop and deploy smart homes for the elderly based on personalised needs. Our model provides guidance to healthcare researchers and aged care industries to set up smart homes based on the needs of elderly, by defining a set of goals at different levels mapped to a different set of features.

In recent years, homeowners have adopted smart home technologies to improve their quality of life. Connected devices and appliances perform actions, tasks, and automated routines based on a homeowner's preferences. Smart technologies enable homeowners to save time, money, and energy. Major tech companies such as Apple, Google, and Amazon have driven the adoption of smart home technologies. From digital voice assistants to intelligent thermostats and everything in between, smart homes are the homes of the future.

The smart connected home is the next step in our houses' growth and how we interact with them. The various systems in our houses are developing as AI technology improves, much as lighting has progressed from candles to gas to electricity. The smart home is rapidly expanding. While all of these new smart home technologies may appear intimidating and difficult at first, the introduction of artificial intelligence assistants and voice control has made it much easier to accept. Here is a list of the top 10 AI-powered smart home technologies for 2022.

For a long time, technology has been creating opportunities for people with impairments, from automated scooters to cochlear implants. AI will begin to boost such efforts in the upcoming years with new powers and wider access. There is a huge and vast market to tap into -- with over a billion people living with impairments throughout the world. A designer's urge to support his blind friend write more comprehensibly inspired one of the first typewriters. Alexander Graham Bell's had a deaf parent, and it was through his work with the deaf community that the telephone was born.

Artificial Intelligence has enabled us to perform our daily jobs in new and more efficient ways. AI can assist people with disabilities by significantly improving their ability to get around and participate in daily activities by automating the process that would typically need human intellect, such as speech recognition and several other functions. Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to change the lives of individuals with disabilities by facilitating the development of interactive technologies that promote accessibility and flexibility. For persons with impairments, AI-assisted voice-assist devices like Google Home, Alexa have opened new possibilities of accessibility. Because Artificial Intelligence is so important in communication and engagement, it makes it much easier for persons with disabilities to access information simply by speaking to their devices.

The smart connected home is the next step in our houses' growth and how we interact with them. The various systems in our houses are developing as technology improves, much as lighting has progressed from candles to gas to electricity. The smart home is rapidly expanding. While all of these new smart home technologies may appear intimidating and difficult at first, the introduction of artificially intelligent assistants and voice control has made it much easier to accept. Here is a list of the essential smart home devices which work on smart home technologies.

The multifamily industry is presently experiencing a paradigm shift and a revolution with the entry of technological advancements such as artificial intelligence (AI) and demographic shifts. This is disrupting the real estate industry as corroborated by an NMHC "Disruption" report from 2018. Even going through any industry blog, you will most likely come across various mentions of AI. It is a popular topic within the industry and is gaining more traction specifically within the multifamily industry. When it comes to AI, do I mean robots?

Consumers are the most positive and excited for AI technologies that benefit their lives outside of work, research from O'Reilly shows. The survey, which delves into the opinions of consumers and compares them to that of AI-creators – those working to develop AI driven solutions including CTOs, data scientists, software engineers, solutions architects and IT Directors – reveals a wider indifference to the potential of AI in a work setting. The results suggest that while AI may be inserting itself into our lives in more ways than we recognise, to encourage adoption, developers should focus their efforts on leveraging AI to make consumers lives easier, augmenting existing experiences to make them more seamless. Adoption and acceptance outside the office, will ultimately lead to the same in a work setting, alleviating fears of job loss and instead focusing on job enhancement. Rachel Roumeliotis, Vice President of Data and AI at O'Reilly said: "Consumer conceptions of AI are still very much influenced by popular culture, science fiction and the virtual assistants they use every day. However, there are strong areas of overlap between AI developers and AI users. Both groups appreciate the success of smart home technology and are watching the development of autonomous vehicles very closely. It's up to these sectors to capitalise on the hype, but the results are also a call for the creators of work-focused AI to make solutions that capture the imagination and generate excitement."

The prominence of artificial intelligence (AI) has significantly grown in pop culture and science fiction over the years. It has speculated on how AI can change people's lives, the places we live and our day-to-day activities. However, despite the increase of AI in popular films such as I, Robot, Star Trek and WALL-E, it's continued depiction and futuristic tendencies throughout the years have altered individual perceptions about the true meaning of AI and how it is already playing a vital part in our everyday lives. A recent survey conducted by O'Reilly paints this exact picture. It gives AI-creators an in-depth look at how consumers identify and use AI technology, showcasing the heightened misunderstanding that consumers have of AI and its use.

Smart home technology has become increasingly popular in the latter half of the last decade and the 2020s could see it become even more mainstream. Many of the products are designed with the promise to make life easier and can help increase the security of a home with the likes of smart locks, doorbells and cameras becoming increasingly popular. Smart technology developers also claim it can help people save money. For example, British Gas says that its Hive smart thermostat could save users up to £120 a year on energy bills. Technology is expected to play an even bigger part in home security in 2020 with more residential properties equipping themselves with solutions that can be accessed remotely via mobile devices including smartphones, tablets and laptops.