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 , March Service-Oriented Architecture For Home Networks