Managing and Deployment of Applications with OSGi in the Context of Smart Home

The presence of a multitude of heterogeneous devices in a smart home environment create a whole puzzle when comes the time to deploy, update, or manage applications on these devices. The configuration and the updating of applications in that context can be expensive, as well as resource and time consuming, especially when there are several similar environments to implement. This paper considers those problems, brings a glimpse on possible solutions, and proposes the use of the OSGi framework to ease the deployment and the management of applications. Moreover this paper presents a summary of a distributed system currently in last phase of development that will resolve the proposed problematic. This system allows the remote managing and deployment in the context of a distributed and pervasive environment for cognitively impaired people.