As future home appliances will have many useful built-in functions, a communication network that allows a user to access these built-in functions and to control the appliances is highly desirable. If the home appliances are fitted with a wireless communication module, a wireless ad hoc network can be used to easily connect the appliances. For ease of use the nodes are given names such as “livin...

iran home appliances producers are challenged by the many foreign competitors. these companies can employ information and communication technology for improvement of the competitiveness. so in this paper, the identification of internet marketing strategies and the consumer behavior have been analyzed by grounded theory. the research shows that, internet marketing strategy (ims) can be classifie...

The paper proposes an approach to solve the situation. In our approach, we have developed a middleware component to connect several middleware implementing these object-oriented standard speci cations for home computing. Actually, our middleware component makes it possible to connect home appliances adopting HAVi, Jini, or UPnP. Therefore, various home appliances can comm unicate with each other.

The past decade has seen significant advancement in the field of consumer electronics. Various ‘intelligent’ appliances such as cellular phones, air-conditioners, home security devices, home theatres, etc. are set to realize the concept of a smart home. They have given rise to a Personal Area Network in home environment, where all these appliances can be interconnected and monitored using a sin...

Digital home industry provides a spectrum of services that standardizes digital home appliances and uses network technology allowing integrated control of these devices (thus enhancing the intelligence of home appliances). The application of digital home technology has extended to other domains such as environment, healthcare, security, and other areas. This study proposes replacing conventiona...

Now that smart home appliances are easily plugged into smart home networks, the question of how to simplify security management, especially of access rights, for such appliances arises. The problem is aggravated by the fact that home users cannot be considered as “skilled” administrators, but are instead often technology-unaware users. Establishing trustworthiness when it comes to secure smart ...