The Smart Home meets the Web of Things. (19th May 2011)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kamilaris, Andreas; Pitsillides, Andreas; Trifa, Vlad
• Is Part Of: International journal of ad hoc and ubiquitous computing. Volume 7:Number 3(2011)
• Page Start: 145
• Page End: 154
• Publication Date: 2011-05-19
• Subjects: physical things -- embedded devices -- information appliances -- smart homes -- ubiquitous computing -- web of things -- application framework -- web services -- REST -- web mashups; Ubiquitous computing -- Periodicals; Embedded computer systems -- Periodicals; Electronic data processing -- Distributed processing -- Periodicals; Wireless communication systems -- Periodicals; Computer architecture -- Periodicals; 004.2
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1743-8225

Abstract

In recent years, the merging of computing with physical things, enabled the transformation of everyday objects into information appliances. We propose to reuse the central principles of the modern Web architecture to fully integrate physical objects to the Web and build an interoperable Smart Home. We present an application framework that offers support for multiple home residents concurrently. We show that by using the Web as application layer we can build flexible applications on top of heterogeneous embedded devices with only a few lines of code, transforming home automation into a trivial task. We address many issues related to Web-enabling these devices, from their discovery and service description to the uniform interaction with them. Our evaluation efforts indicate that our framework offers acceptable performance and reliability.