Towards a Cloud-based Platform Framework for Smart Homes
Yuto Lim, Yasuo Tan · IEEJ Transactions on Electronics Information and Systems · 2016
Smart homes have been vigorously explored for nearly a couple of decades to introduce the concept of networking devices and appliances in the house.In this paper, we present a concept and standardization of smart homes in the ubiquitous system perspective.We introduce the implementation of smart homes, i.e., iHouse, which uses the ECHONET Lite standard specification.The paper also gives overall discussion on a cloud-based smart home platform and its service categories and research challenges.