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An object-based middleware supporting efficient interoperability on a smart home network

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This paper proposes a novel object-based home network middleware for supporting the interoperability among home devices and smart grid devices. This middleware provides various types of abstract objects for flexible representation of heterogeneous home devices, which are classified based on their characteristics. It is also flexible enough to allow addition of new protocols and message conversion between different protocols through an abstraction layer, which are not supported by existing home network middlewares so that various protocols can be supported. As a result, it can be utilized to provide the interoperability among a variety of devices from sensors to typical home appliances as well as smart grid devices such as a home electric generator and a battery, which adopt different protocols. In order to demonstrate that home devices and smart grid devices are interoperable through the proposed middleware, we implement applications based on the middleware on a target platform consisting of embedded boards, sensors and laptops for emulation purposes of a home network. According to our emulation, this middleware can provide efficient interoperability among home devices and smart grid devices for future energy efficient home.

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    Sang Oh Park, Jin Sung Kim & Sung Jo Kim

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This research was supported by the MKE (The Ministry of Knowledge Economy), Korea, under the HNRC (Home Network Research Center)—ITRC (Information Technology Research Center) support program supervised by the NIPA (National IT Industry Promotion Agency) (NIPA-2010-C1090-1011-0010). This research was also supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (No. 2010-0000414).

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Park, S.O., Kim, J.S. & Kim, S.J. An object-based middleware supporting efficient interoperability on a smart home network. Multimed Tools Appl 63, 227–246 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-011-0926-7

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