TY - GEN
T1 - Knowledge-based middleware for future home networks
AU - Pahl, Marc Oliver
AU - Müller, Andreas
AU - Carle, Georg
AU - Niedermeier, Christoph
AU - Schuster, Mario
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Humans are lazy. They want to get as much support and assistance in their daily life as possible. To provide sophisticated digital butler functionality a system has to monitor the humans and their environment to understand their desires. It has to control all devices to translate the deduced wills into actions. To provide an integrated intelligent environment to the residents it is necessary to overcome the borders of different manufacturers, devices and access technologies. A management and control middleware is needed that shields users as well as high level management services from the technical details of the network of devices by providing a standardized, resilient and secure communication channel. We present a knowledge-based middleware as base for that purpose in this paper. The novel approach is the transparent connection of highly heterogeneous home devices by requiring only very limited functionality per device. Our design allows the desired high autonomicity in a secure and efficient way.
AB - Humans are lazy. They want to get as much support and assistance in their daily life as possible. To provide sophisticated digital butler functionality a system has to monitor the humans and their environment to understand their desires. It has to control all devices to translate the deduced wills into actions. To provide an integrated intelligent environment to the residents it is necessary to overcome the borders of different manufacturers, devices and access technologies. A management and control middleware is needed that shields users as well as high level management services from the technical details of the network of devices by providing a standardized, resilient and secure communication channel. We present a knowledge-based middleware as base for that purpose in this paper. The novel approach is the transparent connection of highly heterogeneous home devices by requiring only very limited functionality per device. Our design allows the desired high autonomicity in a secure and efficient way.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77952629077&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/WD.2009.5449684
DO - 10.1109/WD.2009.5449684
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77952629077
SN - 9781424456604
T3 - 2009 2nd IFIP Wireless Days, WD 2009
BT - 2009 2nd IFIP Wireless Days, WD 2009
T2 - 2009 2nd IFIP Wireless Days, WD 2009
Y2 - 15 December 2009 through 17 December 2009
ER -