The homeport system

  • Authors:
  • Jeppe Brønsted;Per Printz Madsen;Arne Skou;Rune Torbesen

  • Affiliations:
  • Aarhus University, Computer Science, Aarhus N, Denmark;Inst. 8 - Procescontrol, Aalborg East;Aalborg University, Department of Computer Science, Aalborg East, Denmark;Aalborg University, Department of Computer Science, Aalborg East, Denmark

  • Venue:
  • CCNC'10 Proceedings of the 7th IEEE conference on Consumer communications and networking conference
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Residential gateways for home automation alre prerequisites to obtain optimal exploitation of energy resources, and they also have the potential to provide a unified operation of various home devices and appliances. Although a number of protocol standards have been proposed, the number of commercially available systems is still very limited. One reason for this is the diversity of device manufacturing standards; another is the lack of efficient and expressive middleware for defining control algorithms and usage scenarios. In this paper we present the architectural design of a distributed middleware system for residential gateways including a simple composition language. Also, we present the initial experiences obtained from a prototype implementation of the system.