Home Appliance Control Using Heterogeneous Sensor Networks

Abstract

The design and implementation of home appliance control based on information from sensors is presented. In a ubiquitous networking society, there are a lot of devices connected to a network. However, many kinds of networks coexist, and they use different communication protocols. Therefore, a technology to integrate different networks is necessary to provide flexible services, which can control various devices connected to different networks where different protocols are used. At the same time, the technology of sensor networks is important in such a society. Sensors also use different protocols. Therefore, using sensing data from different kinds of sensor networks is difficult. To collect and process information from various kinds of sensors, we designed and implemented a Sensor Gateway. To control home appliances, protocols defined by the Peer-to-Peer Universal Computing Consortium are used in our system.

An architectural framework for mobile device interaction with consumer home network appliances

“…This is the approach taken by [4,5,6]. This solution has all issues related to the running an HTTP server on the home router.…”

“…However, their use cases were very limited. In [4][5][6][7], the authors have used their own proprietary metadata or control commands to manage devices. These approaches did not consider the issues of device heterogeneity.…”

“…A number of current approaches to home appliance controls have been discussed in [4][5][6][7]. In [2], the authors defined a complete set of device independent interfaces and device descriptions metadata to deal with device heterogeneity.…”

Adaptive Home/Building Energy Management System Using Heterogeneous Sensor/Actuator Networks

“…A middleware application programming interface (API) enables access to P2P protocols. By installing PUCC middleware on every device that communicates with other devices, various functions are provided in addition to P2P communication [11].…”

Demonstration of Home Appliance Control Using Heterogeneous Sensor Networks

“…If several sensors in a heterogeneous network environment become able to communicate with each other and sensor networks become able to communicate freely with several types of network, such as the Internet and Home network, using DLNA and ECHONET, information that sensors have could be used extensively by various devices. This would We developed a system with which a user can freely configure the cooperative behavior of sensors and home appliances from a mobile device [1]. To develop this system, we used Peer-to-Peer Universal Computing Consortium (PUCC) technology [2] which enables sensors and all other devices to connect to each other.…”