Using MDE to Build a Schizophrenic Middleware for Home/Building Automation

  • Authors:
  • Grégory Nain;Erwan Daubert;Olivier Barais;Jean-Marc Jézéquel

  • Affiliations:
  • IRISA/INRIA/university of Rennes1, Equipe Triskell, Rennes Cedex, F-35042;IRISA/INRIA/university of Rennes1, Equipe Triskell, Rennes Cedex, F-35042;IRISA/INRIA/university of Rennes1, Equipe Triskell, Rennes Cedex, F-35042;IRISA/INRIA/university of Rennes1, Equipe Triskell, Rennes Cedex, F-35042

  • Venue:
  • ServiceWave '08 Proceedings of the 1st European Conference on Towards a Service-Based Internet
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

In the personal or corporate spheres, the home/office of tomorrow is soon to be the home/office of today, with a plethora of networked devices embedded in appliances, such as mobile phones, televisions, thermostats, and lamps, making it possible to automate and remotely control many basic household functions with a high degree of accuracy. In this domain, technological standardization is still in its infancy, or remains fragmented. The different functionalities of the various appliances, as well as market factors, imply that the devices that control them communicate via a multitude of different protocols (KNX, LonWorks, InOne). Building a high level middleware to support all the appliances seems to be a reasonable approach. However, market factors has shown that the emergence of a unique and universal middleware is a dream. To solve this issue, we have built a new generation of schizophrenic middleware in which service access can be generated from an abstract services description. EnTiMid, our implementation of schizophrenic middleware, supports various services access models (several personalities): SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol), UPnP and DPWS (Device Profile for WebServices). In this paper, we describe how these personalities are generated using a Model Driven Engineering approach and discuss the benefits of our approach in the context of a deployment of new services at the city level.