Study and implementation of the smallest closed-area (SCA) mechanism for self-organization network architectures in smart home control systems

The concepts of IOT and M2M have been widely discussed for the future intelligent living. In smart home environments, various “intelligent devices and facilities” should be able to be organized and connected suitably and automatically to provide specific functions for people´s daily life. From the above perspective, an important issue is to design the properly relative behaviors and operations between the homogeneously and heterogeneously intelligent devices and facilities to provide required functions for people. In this paper, we focus on a smart home air-conditioner control network, and design the relative behaviors between home gateway, air-conditioners, doors, and windows. When a user remotely turns on an air-conditioner in a house, the relative doors and windows should perform proper operations automatically and immediately for energy-saving. For this purpose, a tree-based self-organization network architecture and the smallest closed-area mechanism are designed.