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What is now achieved was once only imagined! -William Blake HOUSe-KEEPER is a reality! When you plug a Jini or Chai X10 device into the home network, you can instantly use it from a Web page or a wap phone. Like that, I was able to prepare the NDS class morning coffee from the Web and could know whom of my fellows used the coffee machine. HOUSe-KEEPER is a middleware, which is designed to be independent of the home network technology (e.g. Jini, UPnP, Chai, ...). |
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HOUSe-KEEPER
Project : Event-Based Application for Smart Spaces
Event services have been proposed and
experimented with as a means of controlling (= monitoring and programming)
smart spaces (buildings equipped with sensors connected to an intranet). A
prototype has been built using a basic publish-and-subscribe interface.
This project is proposed to further explore this event-based paradigm. A remote console server would feed selected events to a web page displayed on a browser via a specially adapted HTTP server. Thus it might be possible to monitor the building remotely when it is unoccupied, or to remotely turn on lights or water heaters, monitoring the babysitter ... This project would concentrate on the adaptation of the server to support the monitoring and control task. Another facet of the project would be to extend the server to support a WAP phone (i.e., serve to a WAP phone rather than a conventional desktop).
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We are speaking about smart houses, smart buildings, smart offices. But finally, what's that ? |
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What do you think of the concept of this first
webable
coffee machine ?
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Who told you a smart house is expensive ? The Internet Home contains about £5,000 of network infrastructure - which cost £3,000 to install - and a further £20,000's worth of new technology at today's prices.
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Smart building new capabilities are so numerous than
everyone will win :
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