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The concept of ambient assisted living is strongly related to building automation, smart homes, and the IoT. The idea is to support humans in their homes with automated and often customized electronic assistance, often with a focus on the elderly or handicapped individuals. In most applications, reliability is critical. That said, with ambient assisted living still in its early stage of development, this application with its many required sensors has huge potential for IPV; however, so far, the market coverage is very low.

Figure 3.3 Solar powered kitchen scale. (Photo reproduced by permission of Soehnle-Leifheit, 2019).

The aim of building automation is to provide comfort and efficiency and to automate energy-saving measures, such as switching lights on and off or regulating room temperatures. Besides financial losses or discomfort, a malfunction of a sensor poses no significant risks. On the other hand, installing automated energy-saving technologies will pay off for most applications very quickly. EnOcean provides different batteryless IPV powered sensors in this application field [33].