Programming Home Care

Abstract

The home is composed of many different devices, services and technologies. These rarely communicate with one another, and require various different computer systems and applications to be able to interact with them all remotely. A challenge within telecare is being able to exploit the functionality of these devices within the home and offer a common means of control, monitoring and programming, either locally or remotely. Homer, a home system designed and developed at the University of Stirling, can communicate with any device within the home and then expose the functionality to a range of different interfaces on different platforms and devices. This paper introduces Homer, describing how it communicates with the devices within the home, a brief description of the system architecture, and finally describes its user interfaces for the home. Home requirements are introduced at the beginning of the paper, explored throughout, and finally evaluated at the end.

Major requirements for building Smart Homes in Smart Cities based on Internet of Things technologies

“…SLP (Service Location Protocol) or UPnP (Universal Plug and Play), which is useful to locate services in a heterogeneous network. Maternaghan and Turner [23] proposed a Tele-care System based on OSGi framework, they also turned the research project into a product called Homer which linked up components and services in an OSGi enabled home server. Homer provided control and automation algorithms to all connected components through its own Application Programming Interface (API) which may be an obstacle for general adoption by various manufacturers.…”

E‐servant: an intelligent, programmable system to support and integrate assisted living technologies

“…The strategy of using visual programming for this task has been successful on other similar projects described in [5], although none of them support the adaptability offered by the E-servant.…”

“…The E‐servant attempts to support healthcare professionals in such situations, enabling them to program devices in an intuitive, visual manner, with no need for computer or device programming skills. The strategy of using visual programming for this task has been successful on other similar projects described in [5], although none of them support the adaptability offered by the E‐servant.…”