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VENDOR NAME DESCRIPTION
http://www.greenpeak.com/ The Open Smart Home Framework The Open Smart Home Framework (OSF) is an architecture that is composed of the components
of the ZigBee (IEEE 802.15.4) standard family that are relevant for the home and the
consumer. It combines these components into an architecture that allows for an easy-to-
install, maintenance-free, reliable, secure, and cost-effective sense and control network
implementation, without any visibility for the user of the different ZigBee network layers or
other underlying components that are used.
http://wosh.sourceforge.net/ WOSH Framework WOSH (Wide Open Smart Home) is an open-source, multiplatform framework (message-
oriented middleware) written in ANSI C++, designed to enable (smart) home automation.
WOSH is a service-oriented framework (SOA) providing an open-source (network)-
independent infrastructure for developing component-based software (services, aka
bundles). WOSH Framework and installed services enable rapid development (RAD) and
features composition.
WOSH ships with many implemented services and some end-user applications (such as
woshsrv, WorkShop).
http://eclipse.org/smarthome/ Eclipse Smart Home Framework Smart home adoption will gain momentum only if the different devices can be connected to
overarching use cases, but currently the market for smart home systems and IoT gadgets is
heavily fragmented. The only way out of this is to establish common interfaces and application
programming interface (API).
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Table 8.4 Standards for Home Integration
STANDARD MEDIA DESCRIPTION
6LoWPAN Radio frequency 6LoWPAN is an acronym of IPv6 over low-power wireless personal area networks. The 6LoWPAN group aimed to
define header compression mechanisms that allow IPv6 packets to be sent to and received from over IEEE
802.15-based networks.
The targets for IP networking for low-power radio communication are the applications that need wireless Internet
connectivity at lower data rates for devices with very limited form factor. Examples include automation and
entertainment applications in home, office, and factory environments.
Bluetooth Radio frequency Bluetooth is the codename for a technology specification for small form factor, low-cost, short-range radio links
among mobile PCs, mobile phones, and other portable devices. The Bluetooth Special Interest Group is an
industry group consisting of leaders in the telecommunications and computing industries who are driving
development of the technology and bringing it to market.
CEBus All The CEBus Standard (EIA-600) is a protocol specification developed by the Electronic Industries Association (EIA)
to support the interconnection and interoperation of consumer products in a home.
DLNA http://www.dlna.org Digital Living
Network Alliance
DLNA is a cross-industry organization of leading consumer electronics, computing industry, and mobile device
companies. This is a vision of a wired and wireless network of interoperable consumer electronics (CEs), personal
computers (PCs), and mobile devices in the home and on the road, enabling a seamless environment for sharing
and growing new digital media and content services. In the DLNA digital home, it will be common for consumers to
• Easily acquire, store, and access digital music from almost anywhere in the home
• Effortlessly manage, view, print, and share digital photos
• Carry favorite content anywhere to enjoy while on the road
• Enjoy distributed, multiuser content recording, and playback
DPWS (Device Profiles for Web
Services)
All DPWS defines a minimal set of standards and specifications to provide Web service–based communication for
embedded devices. It identifies a core set of Web service specifications comprising the following areas: secure
message transmission, dynamic discovery, description, subscription, and event notification.
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Table 8.4 (Continued) Standards for Home Integration
STANDARD MEDIA DESCRIPTION
HAVI (Home Audio Visual
Interoperability)
IEEE HAVi is a CEs industry standard that will ensure interoperability between digital audio and video devices from
different vendors and brands that are connected via a network in the consumer’s home.
HBS (Home Bus System) Coax Twisted Pair A consortium of Japanese companies, supported by government agencies and trade associations, has specified
communications standards and equipment for home automation. This encompasses links among appliances,
telephones, and audio-video equipment using twisted-pair wires and coaxial cables.
HomePlugAlliance (https://www
.homeplug.org/)
Power Line Created to set a technology specification for home power line networking and to promote its wide acceptance in
the marketplace. The alliance’s objective is to enable and promote rapid availability and adoption of cost-
effective, interoperable, and specification-based home power line networks and products enabling the connected
home.
KNX http://www.knx.org/ All The worldwide standard for all applications in home and building control, ranging from lighting and shutter
control to various security systems, heating, ventilation, air conditioning, monitoring, alarming, water control,
energy management, metering as well as household appliances, audio, and much more. The technology can be
used in new as well as in existing home and buildings.
HomePNA and HomeGrid http://
www.homepna.org/home/
Phone Line The HomeGrid Forum
develops extensions to the HomePNA specifications for distributing entertainment and triple
play data over existing coax cables and phone wires. It also certifies and promotes member products for
residential deployments.
The Alliance provides member-only access to a community of HomePNA developers and users including leading
equipment OEMs, service providers, and technology developers to help you design, deploy, and support new
products and services such as HD IPTV.
OSGi (Open Service Gateway
initiative) http://www.osgi.org/
All The OSGi specification will create an open standard for a service gateway that is inserted between the external
network and the internal network.
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STANDARD MEDIA DESCRIPTION
UPnP (Universal Plug and Play)
http://www.upnp.org/
All The UPnP architecture offers pervasive peer-to-peer network connectivity of PCs of all form factors, intelligent
appliances, and wireless devices. The UPnP architecture is a distributed, open networking architecture that
leverages TCP/IP and the Web to enable seamless proximity networking in addition to control and data transfer
among networked devices in the home, office, and everywhere in between.
UPnP technology targets home networks, proximity networks, and networks in small businesses and commercial
buildings. It enables data communication between any two devices under the command of any control device on
the network. UPnP technology is independent of any particular operating system, programming language, or
network technology.
VESA (Video Electronics
Standards Assoc.) http://www
.vesa.org/
Various The VESA Home Network consists of a backbone network, one or more component networks, a number of access
devices that connect the home network to external access networks, a number of network devices that connect
component networks to the home backbone network, and end devices that provide various functional services to
the home user.
ZigBee https://www.zigbee.org/ Wireless ZigBee standards prove you can rely on the widest variety of smart and easy-to-use products for just about
anywhere you work, live, or play. Our innovative standards are designed to let product manufacturers help their
customers create their own IoT and M2M wireless sensor networks to gain greater control of, and even improve,
everyday activities.
ZigBee lets you easily and cost-effectively add intelligent new features that improve the efficiency, safety,
security, reliability, and convenience of your products. You can help your customers save both energy and money,
or give them the tools they need to gain control of their homes. It’s even possible to help people maintain their
independence and allow them to closely monitor their health and fitness.
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8.13 Conclusion
As we all know, buildings and homes occupy a major portion of any
city across the globe. In this chapter, we discussed the technological
advancements in realizing smart homes and buildings. We listed the
various architectures ranging from centralized and peer-to-peer (P2P)
to distributed architectures for producing smart places. Multiple stan-
dards are being specified for device makers and the data formats for
home-bound devices are diversifying. And frameworks for quickly
developing smart environment services are being produced toward the
faster realization of smarter environment applications. us the pen-
etration and pervasiveness of smarter buildings is highly visible. With
the continuing decline in hardware prices including the costs of chips
and controllers, there will be a sharp increment in buying, installing,
configuring, and leveraging manifold devices in our everyday envi-
ronments. e role and responsibility of device manufacturers, IT
system integrators, independent software vendors, cloud brokerages,
telecommunication carriers, cloud service providers, and standards
bodies are therefore bound to rise significantly. Market researchers
and analysts are also optimistic about the success and scope of smarter
environments in the long run. ere are standards-compliant connec-
tivity, bridging, and other middleware solutions aplenty in the market
place; as a result, the days of smarter homes, offices, buildings, manu-
facturing floors and plants, educational campuses, hospitals, hotels,
stadiums, and so on are not far away.
Appendix
Smart Home Solutions
Having realized the market trend for smart home solutions, companies
and vendors across the world have come out with generic as well as spe-
cific (standard, technology, platform, application domain, etc.) products.
We here list the major products, their application domains, and providers.
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