摘要：Establishing and sustaining smart environments for specific as well as generic purposes is the chief challenge today for IT professionals, professors and pundits. The attributes such as self, situation and surroundings-awareness have become an obligatory necessity and the key differentiators for next-generation IT, for dynamically producing and unobtrusively providing context-aware and cognitive applications to people everywhere all the time. This short review has discussed in detail a variety of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) applications that are getting prominent and dominant in smart homes across the world. The idea is to gain a significant knowledge base on the role and responsibility of future IT in energizing and ensuring smart healthcare services for the total humanity.
