An Intelligent Networking and Automation System for Home and SOHO Environments

Author

Tso, S.K. ; Luk, B.L. ; Choy, W.H. ; Liu, K.P. ; Chow, C.S. ; Leung, K.F. ; Lee, G. ; Yau, F. ; Lam, C.W.

Author_Institution

Department of Manufacturing Engineering and Engineering Management, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong. Email: mesktso@cityu.edu.hk

fYear

2003

fDate

12-12 June 2003

Firstpage

88

Lastpage

92

Abstract

The ever increasing desires for improvement in efficiency and comfort for individuals’ home and office environments have provided the driving force for the recent development in Home/SOHO automation and networking systems. This paper presents a new Home/SOHO automation system which is designed for handling heterogeneous network systems. The laboratory-built system makes use of OSGi (Open Service Gateway Initiative) open standard to provide a flexible framework for adding and removing devices and appliances in an ad hoc manner. Since end users of the system may not necessarily be very computer literate, UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) open standard is being used to make the network connection of various devices as transparent to the users as possible. The current experimental Home/SOHO system can support Bluetooth wireless network, Lonworks, IR, C-bus, 315MHz, 418MHz and 433MHz ISM band RF, and broadband Internet communication. The proposed system can certainly provide a platform for developing Home/SOHO commercial products and it is also flexible enough for developing and experimenting with other Home/SOHO automation technologies

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Control and Automation, 2003. ICCA '03. Proceedings. 4th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Montreal, Que., Canada

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7777-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCA.2003.1594990

Filename

1594990