Title :
New architecture of realizing seamless connectivity and cooperative control for home network systems
Author :
Ikebe, Hayato ; Ogawa, Kazuya ; Takernura, Haruo ; Hatayama, Yoshinori
Author_Institution :
Digital Syst. Dev. Center, SANYO Electr. Co., Ltd, Japan
Abstract :
This paper proposes a new home network architecture for realizing flexible scalability and seamless connectivity and cooperative control. In a home, there are devices which have varying processing power so these devices may support different protocols. They are required to be able to be controlled seamlessly regardless of the protocol. By controlling these devices, cooperative control is desired. A home network system is also required to be able to configure the system scale according to the user´s needs. This architecture makes it possible to provide seamless connectivity by protocol translation and to control devices cooperatively by managing rules in a home server. It also supports flexible scalability, with a new discovery mechanism, from a small-scale system without a home server, to a large-scale system with a home server. We developed and confirmed a prototype system using this architecture.
Keywords :
client-server systems; cooperative systems; domestic appliances; home automation; home computing; protocols; cooperative control; domestic device processing power; flexible scalability; home control service protocol; home network systems architecture; home server; home server rules management; new device discovery mechanism; protocol translation module; seamless connectivity; server client system; Control systems; Digital systems; Home automation; Large-scale systems; Network servers; Power system management; Protocols; Prototypes; Research and development; Scalability;
Conference_Titel :
Circuits and Systems, 2005. ISCAS 2005. IEEE International Symposium on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8834-8
DOI :
10.1109/ISCAS.2005.1465842