Gateway device for energy-saving cloud-enabled smart homes

Author

Bjelica, M.Z. ; Mrazovac, B. ; Vojnovic, V. ; Papp, I.

Author_Institution

Fac. of Tech. Sci., Univ. of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia

fYear

2012

fDate

21-25 May 2012

Firstpage

865

Lastpage

868

Abstract

In this paper we present a solution of a gateway device for smart homes with the ability to interact with IPv6-enabled home devices over 6LoWPAN, answering to the need for the creation of ubiquitous, energy-saving home networks. The gateway also supports the traditional IPv4 interfacing over WiFi and Ethernet. UPnP over IPv6 is fully enabled so that all devices can be easily found by the UPnP discovery from any node in the network. Finally, the gateway enables the devices to be visible by a cloud server, which in turn enables a variety of web applications for home control to interact with home devices by using asynchronous API calls. In the paper the details of the proposed cloud-enabled smart home architecture are given, including the realization of the gateway device, 6LoWPAN end nodes and basic cloud services demonstration applications.

Keywords

IP networks; application program interfaces; cloud computing; energy conservation; home automation; internetworking; personal area networks; ubiquitous computing; wireless LAN; 6LoWPAN end nodes; Ethernet; IPv6-enabled home devices; UPnP discovery; WiFi; asynchronous API calls; cloud server; cloud services demonstration applications; cloud-enabled smart home architecture; energy-saving cloud-enabled smart homes; gateway device; home control; ubiquitous energy-saving home networks; Cloud computing; Home automation; Logic gates; Performance evaluation; Routing; Servers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

MIPRO, 2012 Proceedings of the 35th International Convention

Conference_Location

Opatija

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2577-6

Type

conf

Filename

6240764