Smart Home

and an Introduction to Agent System

• In the near future home appliances are not stand-
alone things anymore, they are becoming
information appliances
• For example, when you receive a land-line call
while watching a movie in TV, the TV will
automatically reduce the volume.
• A house with this kind of appliances is called a
smart house, smart home or house with home
automation
• Convenient, Security and Health are the leading
sectors
Typical Architecture
 Problem and Opportunity
• Problem
– Interoperability of Devices
– Centralized Architecture
– Single Point of Failure
• Opportunity
– More powerful device
– Open software framework
Interoperability and Service
OSGI Platform
 More Advance Architecture
• P2P with Agent
• More on Agent …

1. Chun-Feng Liao, Li-Chen Fu Chao-Lin Wu, "Service-Oriented Smart-Home

Architecture Based on OSGi and Mobile-Agent Technology," IEEE Transactions on
Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 193-205, March 2007
2. Service-Oriented Architecture For Home Networks
http://www.tml.tkk.fi/Publications/C/23/papers/Ngo_final.pdf