IEEE 802.15.4 based service configuration mechanism for smartphone

Recent advances in wireless communication technologies have made it possible for even tiny consumer devices to communicate to host systems in a reliable way. Since it is now equipped with strong computational power and sufficient amount of memory, the smartphone could play a role as the host system. In this paper, a service configuration mechanism based on IEEE 802.15.4 will be proposed. The mechanism targets various consumer devices and is managed by the smartphone, which runs necessary middleware. It could discover an LR-WPAN device and run an appropriate application program for the device. The middleware also provides the high level APIs to develop the application program associated to the device. An experimental prototype shows that the middleware effectively works with LR-WPAN devices within expected latency ranges and that it provides a platform to host application programs.