An object-based middleware supporting efficient interoperability on a smart home network
- Authors
- Park, Sang Oh; Kim, Jin Sung; Kim, Sung Jo
- Issue Date
- Mar-2013
- Publisher
- SPRINGER
- Keywords
- Smart home network; Interoperability; Object-based middleware; Smart grid; Energy management
- Citation
- MULTIMEDIA TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS, v.63, no.1, pp 227 - 246
- Pages
- 20
- Journal Title
- MULTIMEDIA TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS
- Volume
- 63
- Number
- 1
- Start Page
- 227
- End Page
- 246
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/cau/handle/2019.sw.cau/14806
- DOI
- 10.1007/s11042-011-0926-7
- ISSN
- 1380-7501
1573-7721
- Abstract
- This paper proposes a novel object-based home network middleware for supporting the interoperability among home devices and smart grid devices. This middleware provides various types of abstract objects for flexible representation of heterogeneous home devices, which are classified based on their characteristics. It is also flexible enough to allow addition of new protocols and message conversion between different protocols through an abstraction layer, which are not supported by existing home network middlewares so that various protocols can be supported. As a result, it can be utilized to provide the interoperability among a variety of devices from sensors to typical home appliances as well as smart grid devices such as a home electric generator and a battery, which adopt different protocols. In order to demonstrate that home devices and smart grid devices are interoperable through the proposed middleware, we implement applications based on the middleware on a target platform consisting of embedded boards, sensors and laptops for emulation purposes of a home network. According to our emulation, this middleware can provide efficient interoperability among home devices and smart grid devices for future energy efficient home.
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