Restful Design and Implementation of Smart Appliances for Smart Home

The world is changing and we are moving towards the day when everything will be network accessible, named ´Internet of Things (IoT)´. The growing popularity of IoT leads various services such as healthcare, connected car, smart education and smart home services. Among these services, smart home becomes commercialized most rapidly. We developed the Smart Home Protocol (SHP) to enable connectivity between various our smart home devices including smart appliances, LED bulbs, IP cameras, etc. In this paper, we present an overview of the SHP based on Restful architecture, followed by a detailed description of architecture and application profile for smart home devices. We also introduce our smart home services and describe the implementation of smart home protocol in smart appliances. To our understanding, this study is important, since it is a basis for enabling connectivity between our smart home products as well as those from other device and appliance manufacturers. We believe this work plays an important role for designing and implementing smart home devices such as smart appliances.