An Automatic Driver Deployment Mechanism In The Osgi Gateway For Smart Homes

Smart home consists of smart appliances that provide services to home users. Home users should be able to purchase additional new smart appliance anytime and use it instantly at home without any configuration involved. In this thesis, we explore a typical scenario for smart homes that utilizes an...

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Main Author: Lau, Sian Lerk
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Published: 2008
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Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/5360/1/FK_2008_14.pdf
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spelling my-upm-ir.53602013-05-27T07:22:16Z An Automatic Driver Deployment Mechanism In The Osgi Gateway For Smart Homes 2008 Lau, Sian Lerk Smart home consists of smart appliances that provide services to home users. Home users should be able to purchase additional new smart appliance anytime and use it instantly at home without any configuration involved. In this thesis, we explore a typical scenario for smart homes that utilizes an OSGi-powered residential gateway that provides interoperation between heterogeneous smart appliances. Drivers play a significant role in OSGi gateway to provide an integral aspect of services to users, as interoperation can only be possible if the gateway recognizes all heterogeneous smart appliances. An enhancement to OSGi Device Manager named A-ODM (Advance-OSGi Device Manager) is proposed to provide a zeroconfiguration environment to smart homes. A-ODM is an automatic driver deployment mechanism for OSGi gateway to resolve driver dependency externally.A smart home simulation with driver provisioning architecture have been designed and implemented to demonstrate the feasibility of a network delivery of driver provisioning through web service architecture. A-ODM is tested on several OSGi implementations to compare its performance. We observed that A-ODM performed better in OSGi implementations with smaller footprint. Gateways (Computer networks) Home automation 2008 Thesis http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/5360/ http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/5360/1/FK_2008_14.pdf application/pdf en public masters Universiti Putra Malaysia Gateways (Computer networks) Home automation Faculty of Engineering English
institution Universiti Putra Malaysia
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language English
English
topic Gateways (Computer networks)
Home automation

spellingShingle Gateways (Computer networks)
Home automation

Lau, Sian Lerk
An Automatic Driver Deployment Mechanism In The Osgi Gateway For Smart Homes
description Smart home consists of smart appliances that provide services to home users. Home users should be able to purchase additional new smart appliance anytime and use it instantly at home without any configuration involved. In this thesis, we explore a typical scenario for smart homes that utilizes an OSGi-powered residential gateway that provides interoperation between heterogeneous smart appliances. Drivers play a significant role in OSGi gateway to provide an integral aspect of services to users, as interoperation can only be possible if the gateway recognizes all heterogeneous smart appliances. An enhancement to OSGi Device Manager named A-ODM (Advance-OSGi Device Manager) is proposed to provide a zeroconfiguration environment to smart homes. A-ODM is an automatic driver deployment mechanism for OSGi gateway to resolve driver dependency externally.A smart home simulation with driver provisioning architecture have been designed and implemented to demonstrate the feasibility of a network delivery of driver provisioning through web service architecture. A-ODM is tested on several OSGi implementations to compare its performance. We observed that A-ODM performed better in OSGi implementations with smaller footprint.
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author Lau, Sian Lerk
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author_sort Lau, Sian Lerk
title An Automatic Driver Deployment Mechanism In The Osgi Gateway For Smart Homes
title_short An Automatic Driver Deployment Mechanism In The Osgi Gateway For Smart Homes
title_full An Automatic Driver Deployment Mechanism In The Osgi Gateway For Smart Homes
title_fullStr An Automatic Driver Deployment Mechanism In The Osgi Gateway For Smart Homes
title_full_unstemmed An Automatic Driver Deployment Mechanism In The Osgi Gateway For Smart Homes
title_sort automatic driver deployment mechanism in the osgi gateway for smart homes
granting_institution Universiti Putra Malaysia
granting_department Faculty of Engineering
publishDate 2008
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/5360/1/FK_2008_14.pdf
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