ZUMA: a platform for smart-home environments

Abstract

Although electronic devices permeate the home and offer unsurpassed power and features, many impediments still exist to realizing the concept of the smart-home: configuration complexity, minimal device interoperability, difficulty of use, lack of personalization, and no integration with sensors for awareness and adaptation. We define four tenets of smart-home environment: Zero-configuration, Universality, Multiuser optimality, and Adaptability (ZUMA), and describe a platform based on a set of clean abstractions for users, content, and devices. The platform enables configuration and organization of content and networked heterogeneous devices in a smart-home environment. We validate the platform with a prototype implementation and analyze its flexibility and infrastructure requirements. 1 *The ZUMA project is funded by the Gigascale Systems Research Center www.gigascale.org

Content Management and Replication in the SNSP: A Distributed Service-Based OS for Sensor Networks

“…The SNSP fits into the [7] goals that aim to seamlessly integrate disparate components into a functioning system. In addition, there are three goals that the SNSP aims to achieve in the sensor network setting:…”

“…Services can be considered a library of applications that conform to the SNSP's service API. Examples of the SNSP application model are outlined in [7].…”

“…The processes will give the mapper additional constraints: namely, computation, dynamic memory, hardware, and location and bandwidth constraints. Considerations for the mapper are discussed more in [7]. Due to space limitations, heuristics for file allocation will be included in future publications.…”

“…As in [7], the security in the SNSP is based on persona and their access permissions. The implementation of this security is left as future work for the SNSP.…”

Beyond Sensor Networks: ZUMA Middleware

“…References [1,2] present a platform for the smart-home, called ZUMA. The main properties of ZUMA are enumerated below:…”