The Design of a Framework for Smart Appliances

In developed country, it is necessary to develop high value-added products such as smart appliances in order to maintain international competitiveness of the manufacturing industry. The value of a smart appliance is not depended on only the product itself but also its service. The services of a smart appliance are provided by the cloud. The method of developing various services of smart appliances is required for makers of smart appliances. We propose a common framework of smart appliances, which can be used by different vendors. This framework makes it possible to develop smart appliances in easy and to increase the productivity of smart appliances. Using this framework, an appliance can connect to another appliance made by the different vendor. In addition, it can communicate with another appliance located in the different private network. In this paper, we describe the design of the proposed common framework of smart appliances, show a simple example of smart appliances, and evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed framework.