A Cloud Architecture Based on Smart Home

Cloud computing has attracted more and more attentions due to its ability to deliver computing utilities as Internet services. Many industrial companies have successfully applied their Clouds with different technologies and architectures. But the existing Clouds are all computer-based and designed for Web browser. In this paper we propose a Cloud architecture which is based on digital appliances in smart home to provide IT Services that can be accessed and used by appliances users. As the vinculum that links Cloud and smart home, home gateway, which helps smart home merge into Cloud to provide more information services and access services provided by Cloud, plays a significant role in this architecture. Thus this Cloud architecture extends Cloud computing applications to a new domain so that more users could benefit from Clouds. The architecture that we propose in this paper is a conceptual model and more work need to be done to implement it.