Constructing Home Network Systems and Integrated Services Using Legacy Home Appliances and Web Services

Abstract

This article presents a framework that adapts the conventional home electric appliances with the infrared remote controls (legacy appliances) to the emerging home network system (HNS). The proposed method extensively uses the concept of service-oriented architecture to improve programmatic interoperability among multi-vendor appliances. We first prepare APIs that assist a PC to send infrared signals to the appliances. We then aggregate the APIs within self-contained service components, so that each of the components achieves a logical feature independent of device/vendor-specific operations. The service components are finally exhibited to the HNS as Web services. As a result, the legacy appliances can be used as distributed components with open interfaces. To demonstrate the effectiveness, we implement an actual HNS and integrated services with multi-vendor legacy appliances.

Using formal methods to increase confidence in a home network system implementation: a case study

“…To cope with both the emerging HNS and the legacy appliances, Nakamura et al have proposed a framework that can deal with legacy appliances with conventional infrared remote controllers [34,35]. The key ideas are (1) to use a programmable infrared remote controller to control the different appliances, and (2) to rely on a service-oriented architecture (SOA) (see [29,36]).…”

“…In this article, we present the approach we used to specify and then to validate a set of HNS integrated services that have been developed by Nakamura et al [34,35]. Our approach relies on a Design by Contract strategy [31,32].…”

Reusing a JML Specification Dedicated to Verification for Testing, and Vice-Versa: Case Studies

“…4). Nakamura et al have proposed a framework that adapts the legacy appliances with conventional infrared remote controllers [22,23]. The key ideas are (1) to use a programmable infrared remote controller to control the different appliances, and (2) to rely on a service-oriented architecture (SOA) (see [19,25]).…”

On detecting service chains in sensor-driven home network services

“…As seen in Section I, a service can orchestrate different appliances at the same time. In our research group, we are building an actual HNS (CS27-HNS) using legacy home appliances [5].…”