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WiMAX and Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting: Interactive Applications
Published in Amitabh Kumar, Mobile Broadcasting with WiMAX: Principles, Technology, and Applications, 2014
Instead of storing content in a DVR, which needs disk storage, the NDS concept of distributed DVR involves the use of the residential home gateway to store the content. This effectively reduces the cost of the DVR and at the same time uses spare cpacity in the home gateway to be used as an on-demand server. The ShareTV software allows the content to be legally shared among other subscribers using a peer-to-peer technology. The P2P technology is a part of the Jungo residential gateway software provided with the application. (Jungo Inc. is a company which provides residential gateway software with Plug and Play facilities). The ShareTV software downloads the requested programming from other users in the network to the DVR or residential gateway of the requesting subscriber. This can help a subscriber to build, say, a complete 52-episode volume of his favorite serial program or collect songs by a favored singer.
Linking Factory Floor and the Internet
Published in Richard Zurawski, Industrial Communication Technology Handbook, 2017
Another argument speaking in favor of an abstract view to the automation system is the desired user-friendliness of the interface. Typically, the user wants to retrieve data from different systems with only one tool. Therefore, the user interface should be as independent of the underlying system as possible. It is important to notice that the way data and functionality abstraction can actually be achieved also depends on the protocols and mechanisms used on the Internet side of the gateway. In the sequel, we list and discuss a few design issues. They may vary with the concrete target application. The model for the present discussion is a simple and cost-effective residential gateway for linking a home network to the Internet [26].
Data Communications for Distributed Building Automation
Published in Richard Zurawski, Networked Embedded Systems, 2017
Wolfgang Kastner, Georg Neugschwandtner
ISO/IEC JTC1 SC25 WG1† (Information Technology, Home Electronic System) focuses on the standardization of control communication within homes. WG1 has elected to include various communication protocols in its ISO/IEC 14543 series, starting with KNX, but with the intent for others such as LonTalk and ECHONET to follow. In addition, it is working on interoperability guidelines (ISO/IEC 18012) and a residential gateway (ISO/IEC 15045). Despite its focus on the home environment, the scope of WG1 does not exclude commercial buildings. This especially concerns its interoperability guidelines [27] when considering field level functions.
SDN in the home: A survey of home network solutions using Software Defined Networking
Published in Cogent Engineering, 2018
Abdalkrim M. Alshnta, Mohd Faizal Abdollah, Ahmed Al-Haiqi
Several other researchers have previously identified the need for applications and services within the home to cope with increasing complexity and heterogeneity. Few works suggested solutions that are independent of the SDN concept, such as creating new and separate operating system for the home in which users deal with applications and high-level policies to deal with integration and management of their network (Dixon et al., 2010) or using an OSGI (Open Service Gateway Initiative)-based framework to install applications on a residential gateway (Valtchev & Frankov, 2002). However, most of the recent works rely on the SDN technology, and particularly the OpenFlow-based solutions to address the problem of network management. This is the main focus of this article. Aside from the core management functions, and as a subset of those functions, significant work has been done to automate detection and diagnosis of faults in home networks, and to define the appropriate interaction and interfaces between the users and tools to manage and configure the home network (Agarwal et al., 2009).
End-user development of smart home rules using block-based programming: a comparative usability evaluation with programmers and non-programmers
Published in Behaviour & Information Technology, 2021
Mateus Carvalho Gonçalves, Otávio Neves Lara, Raphael Winckler de Bettio, André Pimenta Freire
Different authors approach the definition of ‘smart home’ from different perspectives. Risteska Stojkoska and Trivodaliev (2017), for example, defined smart homes as ‘the use of ICT in home control, ranging from controlling appliances to automation of home features (windows, lighting, etc.)’. From a more technical perspective, Ricquebourg et al. (2006) defined ‘smart homes’ as ‘a house which is equipped with smart objects, a home network make it possible to transport information between objects and a residential gateway to connect the smart home to the outside Internet world’. Katuk et al. (2018) defined a smart home as a ‘home or living environment that uses technology to allow electrical appliances and systems to be controlled automatically’.