Functionality configuration for eHome systems

Authors:
Ulrich Norbisrath;Christof Mosler
Affiliations:
RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany;RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
Venue:
CASCON '06 Proceedings of the 2006 conference of the Center for Advanced Studies on Collaborative research
Year:
2006

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Abstract

New developments and decreasing costs of electronic appliances enable the realization of pervasive systems in our daily environment. In our work, we focus on eHome systems. The price of individual development and adaption of the software making up these systems is one of the major problems preventing their large-scale adoption. In this paper, we introduce an approach built upon functionality composition for automatic service configuration in different environments. We transform the repetitive development process to a single development process followed by a repetitive configuration process. This configuration process is supported by our tool suite, the eHomeConfigurator. The result is a configuration graph, capable of describing dependencies and contexts of components in the eHome field. The tool suite is used to configure and deploy various services on different home environments. Compared to the classical development process, the effort for setting up eHome systems is reduced significantly.