The connection among heterogeneous domotic devices

Miori V.

Domotics  Service Oriented Architecture  Home Automation  XML 

During the last years many technical solutions, promoted by important private industries and authorized standards bodies, have been developed to try to achieve the leadership in the domotic market. The result is confusion among potential product developers. Nowadays, too many home computing systems crowd the market, and they are rarely interoperable: these facts represent the main obstacle to the market growth. The work presents a new infrastructure based on a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) model in which the services coincide with the functionalities offered by the domotic devices. It uses the Web Services, that are the emerging standard communication paradigm in distributed SOA context, and a universal XML language that allows a standard communication.

Source: ISTI Technical reports, 2007