OSGi-Based Smart Home Architecture for heterogeneous network

Abstract

With the development of home network and service applications, different protocols and transmission modes are proposed. More digital devices and home appliance compliance to the protocols in the development. The proposed protocols are usually unable to communicate with each other; we design and implement a Service-Oriented Smart-Home Architecture to integrate popular protocols such as UPnP, Jini, DPWS on OSGi framework and collaborating Tmote, Zigbee and Bluetooth to converge various service oriented applications. Furthermore, with the well-developed Tmote, Zigbee and Bluetooth technology, majority of devices developed with these technologies supported, we propose the three new base drivers to integrate different devices communication on our platform. Additionally, we propose a Service Resolving Bundle to complement the drawbacks of OSGi mechanisms. This architecture with service-oriented mechanisms accommodates applications implemented across different domains and allows system components to interact with one another.