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A near field communication-driven home automation framework

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Rapid advances in the field of consumer electronic devices have made home automation a research issue of increasing importance. In recent years, one of the most popular and widely used devices in certain consumer electronic applications has been RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) and of particular interest here is Near Field Communication (NFC), a two-way communication technology based on RFID. A setup that has a NFC device embedded in a cellular phone has attracted growing attention for various business applications, among them payments and ticketing. In this paper, we propose a novel application and framework that uses a NFC phone to create a personalized digital home environment. With this proposed setup, by one touch the NFC phone is used to send a request that carries predefined personal preferences to control various home appliances. We present the system architecture and implement the prototype, employing such well-known standards as NFC, OSGi, and UPnP to demonstrate the feasibility of the framework. We then evaluate the performance for efficiency and discuss the merits of the approach.

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  1. http://www.mobilecomms-technology.com/projects/foma/.

  2. http://blog.neonascent.net/archives/mobile-controlled-home-automation/.

  3. NFC Forum, http://www.nfc-forum.org/home.

  4. OSGi Alliance, http://www.osgi.org/Main/HomePage.

  5. UPnP FORUM, http://www.upnp.org/.

  6. NFC Forum, http://www.nfc-forum.org/home.

  7. JSR 257: Contactless Communication API, Version 0.85, Public Review Draft, October 5 2005, http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=257.

  8. NFC Forum, “NFC Data Exchange Format (NDEF 1.0)”, NFCForum-TS-NDEF_1.0, 2006.7.24.

  9. NFC Forum, “NFC Record Type Definition (RTD 1.0)”, NFCForum-TS-RTD_1.0, 2006.7.24.

  10. http://www.tiaxllc.com/.

  11. http://architecture.mit.edu/house_n/placelab.html.

  12. http://www.mobilecomms-technology.com/projects/foma/.

  13. A bundle is a group of Java classes and additional resources equipped with a detailed manifest file on all its contents, as well as additional services needed to give the included group of Java classes more sophisticated behaviors, to the extent of deeming the entire aggregate a component.

  14. Prosyst’s Equinox Framework, http://dz.prosyst.com/oss/.

  15. http://www.wave-tek.com/Products_CHT.htm.

  16. http://www.mobilecomms-technology.com/projects/foma/.

  17. http://blog.neonascent.net/archives/mobile-controlled-home-automation/.

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Acknowledgments

We are grateful for the many excellent comments and suggestions made by the anonymous referees. This work was supported by the Nation Science Council of Republic of China under Grant No. 100-2221-E-305-013-.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taipei University, 151, University Road, Sanhsia, Taipei, 237, Taiwan, ROC

    Yue-Shan Chang

  2. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Central University, 300, Jhongda Rd., Jhongli, Taoyuan, 32001, Taiwan, ROC

    Wei-Jen Wang

  3. Institute of Communication Engineering, National Taipei University, 151, University Road, Sanhsia, Taipei, 237, Taiwan, ROC

    Yung-Shuan Hung

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Chang, YS., Wang, WJ. & Hung, YS. A near field communication-driven home automation framework. Pers Ubiquit Comput 17, 169–185 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-011-0484-z

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