Dynamic data driven smart home system based on a Service Component Architecture

There is a growing interest in designing an interoperable smart home environment which involves heterogeneous appliance systems, as it aims to increase the system flexibility. With rapid growth in numbers of appliances, devices, and services, the task for integrating the systems become difficult. In addition, the diversity of these technologies involved in the environment poses tremendous challenges for implementation and development. The emergence of Service Component Architecture (SCA) also generates large interests, as they can exploit different aspects of information systems to enhance software engineering disciplines, facilitate hardware deployment, and improve quality of services. This paper presents a new approach to improve smart home design and configuration by introducing SCA to appliances and sensors networking. A prototype based on the proposed framework was developed to demonstrate its effectiveness.