Personal Home Server: Enabling Personalized and Seamless Ubiquitous Computing Environments
PERCOM '04 Proceedings of the Second IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom'04)
Middleware for distributed services and mobile applications
InterSense '06 Proceedings of the first international conference on Integrated internet ad hoc and sensor networks
EUC'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Emerging Directions in Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing
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This work presents an architecture for the management and personalized control of devices in a domotic environment (i.e., an automated home). The architecture allows for user and profile management from mobile hand-held devices such as PDAs and cell phones. The system provides for interaction from any device fitted with TCP/IP support and a web browser, so that the specific characteristics of the access device are not a conditioning factor. We have implemented a prototype to test out the application of the architecture in domotic environments. We have used virtual UPnP devices that emulate domotic devices on PCs, a local area network interconnecting the PCs to form a domotic network, and a PDA with Bluetooth and a cell phone with GPRS connection as wireless access devices. A key design goal was that the prototype could be easily transferred to future domotic installations with real devices, possibly interconnected by the home power line.