A Proposal for a Hardware Architecture for Ubiquitous Computing in Smart Home Environments

One of the major exponents for ubiquitous computing may be found in smart home environments, where a great deal of different devices must interact, process received information and actuate. Devices like sensors, effectors, microcontrollers, PDAs, personal computers, laptops, multimedia centers, mobile phones, etc. must operate together in order to suit user preferences. This paper proposes a hardware architecture for ubiquitous computing in smart home environments where the devices may autonomously act and collaborate with other devices. Proposed architecture supports previous work about agent-based service personalization software architecture.