Intelligent Remote Control Architecture for Ubiquitous System

UPnP network has become the mainstream in home. How to seamlessly connect and integrate devices with UPnP network to achieve ubiquitous remote control were being discussed. Some UPnP-Bridge mechanisms were developed just for specific devices. They need extra software modules and/or mapping profiles in order to connect device to the UPnP Network which brings troubles to users and developers. We propose an Intelligent Remote Control Architecture to provide a ubiquitous system for controlling remote devices as local peripheral devices. IRIA (Intelligent Remote Interface Agent) makes one device connect to UPnP Network without extra overhead under this architecture. IRIC (Intelligent Remote Interface Controller) translates the UPnP interface device to a local peripheral port. Original control application for this device can access the local peripheral port to control the new remote device without any modification.