Summary

The focus of this chapter was personal and home AI-powered IoT solutions. The large-scale use of smartphones has brought wearable sensors to every person's reach, resulting in a plethora of personal apps. In this chapter, we explored and implemented some of the successful personal and home AI-powered IoT solutions. We learned about SuperShoes by MIT, shoes that can find their own path to the destination. We learned about CGM systems and implemented code to predict hyperglycemia. This chapter also demonstrated how personalized heart monitors can be implemented.

While smart homes are still in their infancy, the chapter explored some of the most popular and useful smart home solutions. HAR, an application that exists at the boundary of smart homes and personal IoT, was introduced. We wrote some code using scikit-learn to classify the activity from data obtained using accelerometers. The chapter introduced some cool smart lighting applications and talked about home surveillance using...