Embedded Script-Driven Home-Automation with Sensor Networks

Today, proprietary home automation targets very specific applications which operate mostly on a cable based infrastructure. In contrast to that, our implementation builds a wireless ad-hoc multi-hop network based on the ESB sensor node platform from the FU-Berlin. The nodes gather sensor readings in a home and transmit them to a central automation server. There, the readings are matched against a list of script statements. In case of a match, a specific action is performed. In this work we will show how the user can implement complex home automation applications optimized for his specific needs by defining very simple script statements. An important property of the system is also that the control of all home appliances is done by means of IR communication and Ethernet enabled multiple plugs. This way, the cooperation between manufacturers is no necessity in order to connect devices to the home automation network.

[1]  Wilfried Elmenreich,et al.  Configuration and management of a real-time smart transducer network , 2003, EFTA 2003. 2003 IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation. Proceedings (Cat. No.03TH8696).

[2]  Wolfgang Effelsberg,et al.  The Impact of Forward Error Correction on Wireless Sensor Network Performance , 2006 .

[3]  Koen Langendoen,et al.  An adaptive energy-efficient MAC protocol for wireless sensor networks , 2003, SenSys '03.

[4]  Diomidis Spinellis.  The Information Furnace: User-friendly Home Control † , 2002 .

[5]  Christian Enz,et al.  wiseMAC, an ultra low power MAC protocol for the wiseNET wireless sensor network. , 2003 .

[6]  Jun Xu,et al.  Towards dependable home networking: an experience report , 2000, Proceeding International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks. DSN 2000.

[7]  Bernd Brügge,et al.  OWL: An Object-Oriented Framework for Intelligent Home and Office Applications , 1999, CoBuild.

[8]  Wei Hong,et al.  Proceedings of the 5th Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation Tag: a Tiny Aggregation Service for Ad-hoc Sensor Networks , 2022 .

[9]  M. Lakshmanan,et al.  AN ADAPTIVE ENERGY EFFICIENT MAC PROTOCOL FOR WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS , 2009 .

[10]  Gregory D. Abowd,et al.  The smart floor: a mechanism for natural user identification and tracking , 2000, CHI Extended Abstracts.

[11]  J.A. Afonso,et al.  A Fly-By-Wireless UAV Platform Based on a Flexible and Distributed System Architecture , 2006, 2006 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology.

[12]  Urban Bilstrup,et al.  Wireless technology in industry-applications and user scenarios , 2001, ETFA 2001. 8th International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation. Proceedings (Cat. No.01TH8597).

[13]  Christian C. Enz,et al.  Poster abstract: wiseMAC, an ultra low power MAC protocol for the wiseNET wireless sensor network , 2003, SenSys '03.

[14]  Roy Want,et al.  Bridging physical and virtual worlds with electronic tags , 1999, CHI '99.

[15]  Jochen Schiller,et al.  Low-Power Image Transmission in Wireless Sensor Networks using ScatterWeb Technology , 2004 .

[16]  S. M. Heemstra de Groot,et al.  Power-aware routing in mobile ad hoc networks , 1998, MobiCom '98.

[17]  Wolfgang Effelsberg,et al.  The Impact of Resync on Wireless Sensor Network Performance , 2006 .

[18]  Suresh Singh,et al.  PAMAS—power aware multi-access protocol with signalling for ad hoc networks , 1998, CCRV.

[19]  Deborah Estrin,et al.  An energy-efficient MAC protocol for wireless sensor networks , 2002, Proceedings.Twenty-First Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies.