HomePort: Middleware for heterogeneous home automation networks

Guilly, Thibaut Le; Olsen, Petur; Ravn, Anders P.; Rosenkilde, Jesper Brix; Skou, Arne

doi:10.1109/percomw.2013.6529570

Cited by 15 publications

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“…It consists of a home automation system built into a suitcase, accessible through a HomePort server. The system has three subnetworks, and contains a window sensor, a thermostat, two light switches, a light dimmer, a temperature and humidity sensor, and an access control panel (for more technical details please refer to [2]). Previously, three scenarios were implemented in Java.…”

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A Toolchain for Home Automation Controller Development

Dalsgaard

Guilly

Middelhede

et al. 2013

2013 39th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications

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Abstract-Home Automation systems provide a large number of devices to control diverse appliances. Taking advantage of this diversity to create efficient and intelligent environments requires well designed, validated, and implemented controllers. However, designing and deploying such controllers is a complex and error prone process. This paper presents a toolchain that transforms a design in the form of communicating state machines to an executable controller that interfaces to appliances through a service oriented middleware. Design and validation is supported by integrated model checking and simulation facilities. This is extendable to controller synthesis. This toolchain is implemented, and we provide different examples to show its usability.

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“…The toolchain uses two existing components. Firstly, the HomePort middleware [2], is used to gather information about available services in an Ambient Intelligence (AmI) environment, and to send and receive data from these services. Secondly, the UPPAAL [3] toolbox is used to model and verify controllers, and as an execution engine.…”

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A Toolchain for Home Automation Controller Development

Dalsgaard

Guilly

Middelhede

et al. 2013

2013 39th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications

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“…So far, the project has defined the overall middleware structure (cloud based), and a number of gateways have been developed including the HomePort [3] experimental testbed and toolchain [4] developed at AAU. Also, initial models for evaluation [5] of building controllers have been developed.…”

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INTrEPID: A project on energy optimization in buildings

Pedersen

Ravn

Skou

2014

2014 4th International Conference on Wireless Communications, Vehicular Technology, Information Theory and Aerospace &Amp; Elec

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We present the objectives, activities and some preliminary results of the FP7 STREP project INTrEPID (INTelligent systems for Energy Prosumer buildIngs at District level). I. OBJECTIVESThe INTrEPID project aims to develop technologies that will enable energy optimization of residential buildings, both performing an optimal control of internal sub-systems within a home as well as providing advanced mechanisms for effective interaction with the external world, including other buildings, local producers, electricity distributors, thus enabling energy exchange capabilities at district level, as shown in Fig. 1. Hence, the project has three main objectives: 1) Energy optimization: Achieved through the development of three INTrEPID technological components (Indoor Home networks, Supervisory control strategies and Energy Brokerage).2) Integration and validation:The integrated system will be tested in RSE and Telecom Italia labs and it will be installed and validated in real houses. The installation in real buildings will involve 50 homes, partly located in Italy and partly located in Denmark. The system will include devices such as energy gateways, smart meter or smart info (depending on the location, smart info will work in Enel electricity grid), smart plugs, a smart appliance, connected thermostats to control HVAC system. The specific devices to be installed in the system will be evaluated during the project development.3) Dissemination and exploitation: Dissemination will be achieved with a contribution to scientific conferences, industrial fairs and leveraging the Telecom Italia show room; dissemination will have a special focus on standardization activities. A. Energy optimizationThe energy optimization objectives will be achieved in following complementary ways: 1) Developing advanced monitoring and diagnostics concepts: This includes ensuring that the achieved savings are sustained over long periods of time without being degraded by deteriorated performance of either mechanical equipment or the monitoring and control system itself.2) Developing supervisory control strategies: These will be able to coordinate larger subsystems (heating, ventilation, air conditioning, lighting, renewable energy generation, thermal storage, etc.) and orchestrate operation of the numerous devices in such systems.3) Supporting inter-building energy exchange: A brokerage agent will communicate directly with other buildings and local producers to negotiate possible use of the electricity produced locally in their premises in order to increase interoperability of buildings and to address the challenges related to deployment in the future Smart Grid concepts and technologies. II. THE INTREPID CONSORTIUMThe INTrEPID consortium includes a significant involvement of large enterprises and SMEs from different sectors, including home automation equipment providers, smart appliances manufacturers, telecom operators and energy distributors.1) Telecom Italia: Major Italian enterprise within the telecommunications, Internet and IT sector. Beside b...

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“…The first step taken by the HomeBlock system upon start up is to retrieve information about available sensors and actuators in the environment. In the current setting, the HomePort [22] middleware is used to obtain it. This middleware offers a common interface to multiple subnetworks, in the form of a web interface available through a REST API over HTTP.…”

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User constraints for reliable user-defined smart home scenarios

Guilly

Nielsen

Pedersen

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J Reliable Intell Environ

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Defining control scenarios in a smart home is a difficult task for end users. In particular, one concern is that user-defined scenarios could lead to unsafe or undesired state of the system. To help them explore scenario specifications, we propose in this paper a system that enables specification of constraints restricting the control commands that can be used inside user-defined scenarios. The system is based on timed automata model checking abstracted by event condition action rules. A prototype was implemented, including a user interface to interact with the user. The usability of the system and interface was evaluated in a user study which results are reported here.

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HomePort: Middleware for heterogeneous home automation networks

Cited by 15 publications

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A Toolchain for Home Automation Controller Development

A Toolchain for Home Automation Controller Development

INTrEPID: A project on energy optimization in buildings

User constraints for reliable user-defined smart home scenarios

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