Meet Casa Agevole, a built in home in Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome.


Designed by architect Fabrizio Vescovo, this 60m2 house includes several rooms -dinne room, kitchen, two bathrooms, two dorms and a main room- and has been designed to allow a person driving a wheelchair to move inside via a millimetric planning of the layout of the different elements.

This house have been deployed as a testing place for assistive technologies for projects in cooperation with FSL and it has already been successfully used in several EU projects. At the moment, it includes several ultrasonic localization sensors, a zigbee sensor network and a KNX-EIB installation, all connected to a gateway PC.

One of the amazing things of Internet is this bunch of nice people that work hard to publish freebies for us lazy lurkers in the web. And sometimes it is even legal :D

This is the case of PlaceLab, the MIT experimental living lab within the House-n project. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, this house-environment has been designed as a flexible and multi-disciplinary observational research facility for the scientific study of people and their interaction patterns with new technologies and home environments. Volunteers do live there in a Big Brother-fashion for variable periods of time and they agree to be monitorized via a variety of sensors deployed all over the house. MIT people have been so kind as to share with us their PlaceLab datasets, with nifty explanations on data format, source of information, sensor nature and anything we may need to reuse the information in our own experiments.