Conclusions:
The smart home platform provides most applications including building a smart home environment. In this thesis, a testbed of smart home platform on WSNs is implemented.
The smart home platform is divided as mote-based smart home application design, sensor network design and sink server design. Mote-based smart home application program is build in Taroko sensor hardware module. The smart home services are classified as home security, home care and home automation service. A modify the sensor network module is proposed for the smart home environment. The network module performs bidirectional routing behavior. The downstream routing path is created by sink mote via CrtForwardMsg message sending by sensor motes in the home environment. Home server and sink server are implemented to monitor the event of the home sensor and control the home appliance. The sink server is responsible for low-level packet parsing and sending and the home server performs friendly user interface and illustrates the status of the home environment. The home server also provides a development tool for smart home service
program. The householder can easily construct a smart home environment by using the development tool.
Future Works:
The future works of this project will focus on network protocol, specific smart home service, and home server design. The network routing protocol should perform two ways packet transmitting in smart home platform. Moreover, for the sake of designing a robust smart home platform, it is better that some specific service motes can communicate with each other directly. There are other useful smart home service that can be developed in the platform, such as exactly position tracking, human behavior monitoring, etc.. The positioning technique in our smart home platform is symbolic positioning technique. The drawback is that it only indicates the room number in the smart home. Hence, if a positioning technique can be applied the smart home platform, some specific smart home services can be developed by all means. Home server is the central processing component of the smart home platform. Improving the feature of home server is the most benefited way for designing a faultless smart home platform. However, mote-based smart home services also need to operate with home server in coordination. For example, a universal plug and play interface can let any home appliance to be controlled if they are attached to the mote. Besides, a development tool on home server can provide householder a simply way to construct the smart home environment.
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