An architecture for the personalized control of domotic resources

ABSTRACT

This work presents an architecture for the management and personalized control of devices in a <i>domotic</i> environment (i.e., an automated home). The architecture allows for user and profile management from mobile hand-held devices such as PDAs and cell phones. The system provides for interaction from any device fitted with TCP/IP support and a web browser, so that the specific characteristics of the access device are not a conditioning factor.

We have implemented a prototype to test out the application of the architecture in domotic environments. We have used virtual UPnP devices that emulate domotic devices on PCs, a local area network interconnecting the PCs to form a domotic network, and a PDA with Bluetooth and a cell phone with GPRS connection as wireless access devices. A key design goal was that the prototype could be easily transferred to future domotic installations with real devices, possibly interconnected by the home power line.

REFERENCES

• 1: UPnP Forum. Understanding universal plug and play. Technical report, June 2000. <u>http://www.upnp.org/</u>.
• 2: Tatsuo Nakajima , Ichiro Satoh, Personal Home Server: Enabling Personalized and Seamless Ubiquitous Computing Environments, Proceedings of the Second IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom'04), p.341, March 14-17, 2004

INDEX TERMS

Keywords:
access control, domotic environments, mobile devices, ubiquitous systems, universal plug and play (UPnP)