SMART HOME SERVICES DEVELOPMENT, PROVISIONING, AND MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK

Abstract

This paper presents the distributed service development and provisioning framework, which is designed to develop, provide, monitor and control various types of existing and future Smart Home applications and services. The framework allows service providers and managers to reduce their operating costs several times as the installation and management of the service is performed remotely and without changing the existing system and without any other additional intervention in the dwellings of end users. The main advantage of the proposed conceptual Framework design is the easy expansion and its difference from existing solutions as it allows integrating any type of services, developed by the third parties without modifying the framework architecture and may only require additional installation of home engineering equipment at users' homes. Services are available for consumers via different terminal devices existing in the market: PDA, phones, TV sets, PCs, etc. The paper presents the concept and the communication, integration, architectural and service models for the proposed Framework, comparison with related research and results of case study.

http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.itc.40.2.432