Author: Thinagaran Perumal
In recent years, smart homes become increasingly dependent on consumer electronics especially towards convergence of communicating devices and services. Smart homes are defined as an entity that is able to acquire and apply knowledge about home dwellers and their environment in order to meet the goals of comfort and efficiency. This goal of comfort and efficiency can be reached through the convergence of consumer electronics appliances and application in homes.
Interoperability will allow devices and application in smart homes to collaborate and provide consumers with greater flexibility in selecting their desired services. This is clear benefit for home dwellers and drives the potential of demand towards more content, services and application in smart homes. For smart home service providers, interoperability will provide support for service or content protection mechanism. This feature will ensure that their services or content delivered to various application domains in smart home in a protected fashion.
Introduction
In recent years, smart homes become increasingly dependent on consumer electronics especially towards convergence of communicating devices and services. Smart homes are defined as an entity that is able to acquire and apply knowledge about home dwellers and their environment in order to meet the goals of comfort and efficiency. This goal of comfort and efficiency can be reached through the convergence of consumer electronics appliances and application in homes.