The architecture of traditional smart home, Server Centralized Architecture, has limitation on interoperability, scalability and extensibility. The dynamic in the home environment also makes the control of appliances difficult. This paper presents Service Oriented Architecture as a new architecture to solve the problems. The paper also mentions the current problems, which need to be researched ...

Liquid crystal displays (LCDs) with highly interactive graphical user interfaces (GUIs) are replacing the traditional “mechanical” human-machine interfaces (HMIs) currently found on most home appliances. This paper explores these technologies, as well as Altera, Altia, and Echelon’s innovative, total-solution architecture for delivering low-cost, high-performance HMIs on virtually any home appl...

This paper shows the current state of our research into a home network which provides both real-time and non-realtime capabilities for one coherent, distributed architecture. It is based on a new type of real-time token protocol that uses scheduling to achieve optimal token-routing in the network. Depending on the scheduling algorithm, bandwidth utilisations of 100% are possible. Token manageme...

Home and building automation aims at improving features and capabilities of household systems and appliances. Nevertheless, current solutions poorly support dynamic scenarios and context-awareness. The integration of knowledge representation features and reasoning techniques (originally devised for the Semantic Web) into standard home automation protocols can offer high-level services to users....

In a typical discrete manufacturing process, new type of reconfigurable production line is introduced, which aims to help small- and mid-size enterprises improve machine utilization reduce cost. order effectively handle the scheduling problem for system, an improved multi-objective particle swarm optimization algorithm based on Brownian motion (MOPSO-BM) proposed. Since existing MOPSO algorithm...