## 7 Future Perspective on Smart Homes  
This section aims to look at future smart homes and the services that smart homes would provide for residents to guarantee their comfort and safety. To investigate the connection of smart homes to other smart environments, vehicle-to-home (V2H) connectivity and the home-based healthcare network concept are used as samples.  
A connected car is a vehicle in which the driver and passengers would be able to access, use, and share information within vehicular communications systems, such as vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) or vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications [130]. Connected car service industries have been gradually increasing in size and number, and they are extending their services to incorporate home connectivity [131]. Integration of vehicles and smart home functionalities would enable drivers to control lighting, appliances, heating, entertainment systems, or garage doors before arriving home [132; 133]. [PERSON] et al. [134] proposed a map-matching algorithm for navigation, and [PERSON] et al. [135] developed an in-vehicle data framework that ensures security and privacy of drivers. [PERSON] et al. [136] improved the performance of telematics through a system based on the Zigbee suite of communication protocols. Moreover, [PERSON] et al. [137] proposed a future wireless technology to connect a vehicle with a home. Recently the concept of V2H connectivity has been addressed in optimization of energy expenses using plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV). Using PHEV as backup generator [138], electricity generation sharing [139] and electricity storage [140] have been studied.  
As the demographic is changing, all aspects of our society will be affected. The aging population is one of the major alterations that causes a significant impact since estimations indicates that the global median age will be 36.8 by 2050 [141]. Additionally, according to the World Health Organization, almost 10% of the population experience some form of disability. As a result of these demographic alterations, there is a huge demand for health and social care services.  
Home healthcare services main intention were transmission of patients' health status to devoted data centres, particularly for circumstances like elderly dependency or social isolation. Technology development and increment of health expenses has resulted in decentralization of healthcare from the hospital to the home. Healthcare can be obtained more efficiently in the home in comparison with hospitals. The'smart home' equipped with appropriate sensors can serve as a centre component of the healthcare service system [142; 143; 144]. The smart home can provide tele-consultation, virtual visits, and monitoring [145; 146]. There is a strong belief that the user-centred, home-based systems will be appointed as the foundation of healthcare in the future.  
Operating devices that monitor health and activity or provide assistance in the home must be non-obtrusive and accepted by users. Moreover, privacy and confidentiality require to be considered while the moral and legal matters of'monitored' living requires to be settled in order to enhance admissibility before the technology is widely promoted.  
The Gator Tech Smart House in Gainesville, Florida, is the result of more than five years of investigations on the application of pervasive and mobile computing in-home-based healthcareservices [147]. The goal of the project is providing assistive habitat that is able to sense not only itself but also its residents. This house could be the good example of smart homes in future.