Open Smart Home: Library

This paper presents the state of the art in the Internet appliance technology. It presents the main technologies that are required for enabling networked appliance applications and the different standardization forums that are concerned with these technologies. We outline some of open research problems and propose directions for solving these problems.
The papers presents in more details problem definition and solution in the following three areas:

• Quality of services in home networking
• Memory management in home gateways
• Security issues in Internet appliances

We present some application scenarios that can benefit from Network appliance applications. Finally, we discuss what is needed to make network appliance a reality.

Author: Ibrahim Kamel

People with disabilities need several assistive technical aids to increase their autonomy and perform daily living tasks. This paper describes the role of networking and communication in the smart home concept which allows people with disabilities and elderly people to retain a certain level of independence within their daily environment, such as at home, work, school, outside and so on. The purpose of our research activity is to explore the difficulties by determining the most suitable approach to federate the different communication protocols available indoor and outdoor environments. In this paper we are presenting our main concept in the design of the smart home architecture. We also describe our approach to design an open software environment adapted to people with disabilities. This approach is based on the service discovery protocol UPnP (Universal Plan and Play) to discover devices in smart home. It is based also on wireless technologies and protocols (Wifi, Bluetooth, etc.) to enhance mobility and dependency. Some solutions are adapted to favor integration of new modules and devices, and to improve the communication between the different layers of our software architecture.

Author: Mahmoud Ghorbel, Maria-Teresa Segarra, Jérome Kerdreux, Ronan Keryell

domestica dal punto di vista di un operatore di telecomunicazioni e di un service provider. Prende in considerazione i requisiti di base di una rete domestica integrata che permetta di fornire servizi avanzati di telecomunicazione. Vengono inoltre introdotti i requisiti indispensabili per la realizzazione di una migliore interfaccia di rete pubblica-privata. Articolo presentato alla IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics 2000, Los Angeles 15-17/6/2000

Author: Paolo Pastorino, Giancarlo Lasagna (CSELT)

- Obiettivi generali Home Networking - Il ruolo del Residential Gateway - L’offerta tecnologica - Le richieste abilitanti - L’anello del valore

Author: Daniele Mazzoni