sDOMO — A simple communication protocol for home automation and robotic systems

Today´s market for domotic systems is dominated by proprietary communication protocols incompatible with each other. This not only prevents engineers from building highly integrated home automation and domestic robotic systems, but keeps prices artificially high due to a lack of competition in the market since the customers have to restrict their choices to components compatible with the system already deployed. In this paper, we propose a communication protocol for fully integrated domotic systems running on top of house network, protocol which is simple enough to accommodate as peers microcontroller based sensors but scalable enough to handle a house wide distributed computer vision system for domestic robot assisted living. Based on a house centered philosophy, the protocol is putting emphasis on privacy and protection of the residents.