The Home as a Content Provider for Mash-Ups with External Services

Abstract

Research in the area of the digital / smart home has been shifting from the in-home environment to the extended aspect, where trusted users can remotely access the home hosted content while away. Our work takes this paradigm one step further, studying how the home can become a content provider, by opening service interfaces to 3 rd party Internet services, in order to allow creation of data mash-ups. This would enable the composition of richer and more user centric services, while still keeping the family data securely stored at the home, probably one of the last places on the Internet where privacy can be still found. We propose a solution based on open web technologies and architectures, while we also present a prototype implementation of our system.