The design and implementation of home appliance control based on information from sensors is presented. In a ubiquitous networking society, there are a lot of devices connected to a network. However, many kinds of networks coexist, and they use different communication protocols. Therefore, a technology to integrate different networks is necessary to provide flexible services, which can control various devices connected to different networks where different protocols are used. At the same time, the technology of sensor networks is important in such a society. Sensors also use different protocols. Therefore, using sensing data from different kinds of sensor networks is difficult. To collect and process information from various kinds of sensors, we designed and implemented a Sensor Gateway. To control home appliances, protocols defined by the Peer-to-Peer Universal Computing Consortium are used in our system.

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This demonstration presents the system shown in the paper accepted at CCNC 2009 [1]. By using this system, control of a network camera programmed to be activated by a sensor is possible. With mobile devices, a user can set or delete the service, which would be executed when a predefined event occurred. When a situation satisfies the predefined criteria of the program utilizing the sensor, this architecture detects it, and executes the service which is determined in advance. Precise definition of the event, which is composed of several types of sensors, is also possible. This architecture is not limited by vendor but can be adapted to many kinds of hardware. Therefore, a user can use sensors without being conscious of the difference of vendors. We demonstrate how to define an event and set the service for the defined event.