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The scope of Web-enabled eHome services covers both automated homes and automated industry facilities. Web-enabled eHome services provide a fully integrated view onto distributed systems comprising automated homes, back-end systems of providers, communication protocols, and services which make distribution aspects transparent. Future platforms should make the development and deployment as easy as achievable. Access should be possible by the way of all communication devices (e.g. desktop computers, PDAs, mobile phones) and all communication networks. Also, all appliances, ubiquitous devices, and their networking protocols have to be supported.
Generations of Web-enabled eHome services have been developed based on proprietary hard- and software. Today, an extensible and modular platform is required for forward-looking design and implementation of such services. One of the main requirements is, that the developed system is maintenance-free and the system brings itself in an operable condition. For setup tasks, both the end-user and a remote operator should be able to execute necessary steps.
It can be observed that services build up hierarchies. We propose a 3-layer system structure, which can be taken to account in system design. Software components grouped by service layers can then be realized in order to implement concrete services. Based on the OSGi platform, we have developed sample services. Gained experience is used for verification of our assumptions. Summarizing, we propose a cookbook for convenient development and deployment of services of the described nature.
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Kirchhof, M., Linz, S. (2004). Component-Based Development of Web-Enabled eHome Services. In: Baresi, L., Dustdar, S., Gall, H.C., Matera, M. (eds) Ubiquitous Mobile Information and Collaboration Systems. UMICS 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3272. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30188-2_14
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