身心障礙者由於身體活動能力有限，以致很多日常工作和瑣碎事情都無法獨自完成。時間久了以後，他們甚至連作出自己決定的機會都會慢慢減少，而能否自由決定自己的生活細節是身心障礙者生活品質其中一個重要指標。因此，本研究所屬之陽光科技輔具團隊，以身心障礙者的需求為第一考量，期望設計出一套符合其需求且可應用於輔助性多代理人系統的輔助環境監控與控制系統，創造一個可以讓身心障礙者自由控制各種電子產品的系統。本研究所發展出來的輔助環境監控與控制系統主要分為兩大核心，分別是家庭電器控制和環境監控。本系統採用一低成本的ZigBee無線網路傳輸來建立此網路架構。電子輔具系統建立於輔助性多代理人系統之下，並主要包含五個部份，包括家庭電器；自動設備的控制；環境中三大因子的監測；安全警示之有毒氣體偵測及人機操作介面。本系統以使用者需求導向開發，並實際的導入到全身癱瘓個案的家庭使用。個案參與本研究之介入期和維持期之實驗。實驗和問卷的結果顯示本研究所提出之設計符合個案需求；個案同意輔助環境監控與控制系統讓其生活更獨立並對其生活上的瑣事有所幫助，同時也減輕了照護者的負擔。

People with disabilities cannot finish most of the simple task in their daily lives independently due to their poor physical abilities. The ability of making their own decisions, which is an important indicator for life quality, will even diminished as time goes by. Therefore, Sunshine Auxiliary Devices Research Group decided to develop a set of assistive environmental monitoring and control system, which is demand-oriented and capable of assistive multi-agent system, to help the disabled to operate home appliances by themselves. Assistive environmental monitoring and control system developed in this research are used to control electrical appliances and environmental monitoring. A low-cost wireless communication, ZigBee, is used to construct the network connection, and this system contains five major parts: (1) electrical appliance control; (2) automatic device control; (3) environmental monitoring; (4) security monitoring; (5) human machine interface. The system is then imported for a spinal cord injury. The client participated in both intervention period and maintenance period. Experimental and questionnaire results show that the purpose design meet the needs of the client, and he also agreed that assistive environmental monitoring and control system did help him to be more independent in his daily life, together with decreasing the heavy workloads of the caregivers.

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