EnTiMid: un middleware au service de la maison

One of the society challenges of tomorrow is the aging population. Often pointed as a possible solution for this issue, house automation can help elderly people stay at home as long as possible, and ease the coordination of the domain actors. In this context, this paper lists the requirements of such a system, showing that today's commercial solutions are not flexible enough to reach the necessary functional richness. According to these requirements, a set of properties a middleware should offer in order to be deployed at a city scale is identified. Then this paper describes the software architecture of a suitable middleware built over OSGi, respecting the listed properties. After that, an experience report of the deployment of this middleware, in the laboratory of the Universite de Rennes 1 highlights the relevance of the proposed solution.