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Using Jini to Integrate Home Automation in a Distributed Software-System

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The last few years, a tendency arose to integrate various programmable devices through ever expanding computer networks. One particular domain in which this evolution stood out clearly is home automation. The EIB1 standard defines a home automation solution that consists of a network of cooperating components with little computational power. Bridging the EIB network with a computer network allows software to interact with these EIB components. However, past attempts to link EIB components with computer networks fell short in dynamism, automatism or user friendliness. In this paper we present a distributed software framework that overcomes these issues, and is capable of automatically generating a software model based on the configuration of the components on the EIB fieldbus. A framework that can be used in this perspective is Jini. Its excellent capabilities for dynamic reconfiguration and its proven deployment in domestic and office environments make it an appropriate candidate for supporting home automation systems.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, KULeuven, Celestijnenlaan 200A, B-3001, Leuven, Belgium

    Peter Rigole, Tom Holvoet & Yolande Berbers

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  1. School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia

    John Plaice

  2. Department of Computer Science and Operations Research, University of Montreal, C.P. 6128 succ. Centre-Ville, Montreal, Quebec, H3C 3J7, Canada

    Peter G. Kropf

  3. Distributed Systems Laboratory, University of Ulm, James Frank Ring 0-27, 89069, Ulm, Germany

    Peter Schulthess

  4. Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, 6050 University Avenue, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 1W5, Canada

    Jacob Slonim

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Rigole, P., Holvoet, T., Berbers, Y. (2002). Using Jini to Integrate Home Automation in a Distributed Software-System. In: Plaice, J., Kropf, P.G., Schulthess, P., Slonim, J. (eds) Distributed Communities on the Web. DCW 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2468. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36261-4_26

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