Controlling Electrical Appliances using Bluetooth & J2ME-enabled Mobile Phone

This project focuses on the development of a universal remote control system that utilizes the use of Bluetooth and Java technology on mobile phones in controlling electrical appliances. The remote control does not confine to the physical barriers that are normally found at home like the typical IrDA remote controls. The system suggests the usage of Bluetooth technology in order to solve and expand the capability of the IrDA remote control technology that is still being widely used. This is also due to the fact that almost all electrical devices and appliances come with their own proprietary remote control. By having a universal remote control, it is possible to eliminate the need for such many remote controls at home. From the client application point of view, the user interface is constructed using Java 2 Mobile Edition as it is being supported by many mobile phones instead of other of different architectures. From the mobile phone, users are able to connect to the Bluetooth server that then interacts with the circuit where the electronic components reside. Immediate direct manipulation of the circuit is crucial as remote control system is one of the real time systems and it needs to be updated as soon as the state of appliances is modified. As a result, this project was developed using Bluez in Linux, for the server part; and Nokia 6230 Series 40 cell phone for the client application. In a nutshell, the end product gives flexibility to the users by promoting the usage of their mobile phones as a universal remote control for their electrical appliances

Controlling Electrical Appliances using Bluetooth & J2ME-enabled Mobile Phone

This project focuses on the development of a universal remote control system that utilizes the use of Bluetooth and Java technology on mobile phones in controlling electrical appliances. The remote control does not confine to the physical barriers that are normally found at home like the typical IrDA remote controls. The system suggests the usage of Bluetooth technology in order to solve and expand the capability of the IrDA remote control technology that is still being widely used. This is also due to the fact that almost all electrical devices and appliances come with their own proprietary remote control. By having a universal remote control, it is possible to eliminate the need for such many remote controls at home. From the client application point of view, the user interface is constructed using Java 2 Mobile Edition as it is being supported by many mobile phones instead of other of different architectures. From the mobile phone, users are able to connect to the Bluetooth server that then interacts with the circuit where the electronic components reside. Immediate direct manipulation of the circuit is crucial as remote control system is one of the real time systems and it needs to be updated as soon as the state of appliances is modified. As a result, this project was developed using Bluez in Linux, for the server part; and Nokia 6230 Series 40 cell phone for the client application. In a nutshell, the end product gives flexibility to the users by promoting the usage of their mobile phones as a universal remote control for their electrical appliances

Development of a user-friendly, low-cost home energy monitoring and recording system

This paper reports research undertaken to develop a user-friendly home energy monitoring system which is capable of collecting, processing and displaying detailed usage data. The system allows users to monitor power usage and switch their electronic appliances remotely, using any web enabled device, including computers, phones and tablets. The system aims to raise awareness of consumer energy use by gathering data about usage habits, and displaying this information to support consumers when selecting energy tariffs or new appliances. To achieve these aims, bespoke electrical hardware, or ‘nodes’, have been designed and built to monitor power usage, switch devices on and off, and communicate via a Wi-Fi connection, with bespoke software, the ‘server’. The server hosts a webpage which allows users to see a real-time overview of how power is being used in the home as well as allowing scheduled tasks and triggered tasks (which respond to events) to be programmed. The system takes advantage of well standardised networking specifications, such as Wi-Fi and TCP, allowing access from within the home, or remotely through the internet. The server runs under Debian Linux on a Raspberry Pi computer and is written in Python, HTML and JavaScript. The server includes advanced functionality, such as device recognition which allows users to individually monitor several devices that share a single node. The openPicus Flyport is used to provide Wi-Fi connectivity and programmable logic control to nodes. The Flyport is programmed with code compiled from C

An Ontology Based Approach Towards A Universal Description Framework for Home Networks

Current home networks typically involve two or more machines sharing network resources. The vision for the home network has grown from a simple computer network, to every day appliances embedded with network capabilities. In this environment devices and services within the home can interoperate, regardless of protocol or platform. Network clients can discover required resources by performing network discovery over component descriptions. Common approaches to this discovery process involve simple matching of keywords or attribute/value pairings. Interest emerging from the Semantic Web community has led to ontology languages being applied to network domains, providing a logical and semantically rich approach to both describing and discovering network components. In much of the existing work within this domain, developers have focused on defining new description frameworks in isolation from existing protocol frameworks and vocabularies. This work proposes an ontology-based description framework which takes the ontology approach to the next step, where existing description frameworks are in- corporated into the ontology-based framework, allowing discovery mechanisms to cover multiple existing domains. In this manner, existing protocols and networking approaches can participate in semantically-rich discovery processes. This framework also includes a system architecture developed for the purpose of reconciling existing home network solutions with the ontology-based discovery process. This work also describes an implementation of the approach and is deployed within a home-network environment. This implementation involves existing home networking frameworks, protocols and components, allowing the claims of this work to be examined and evaluated from a ‘real-world’ perspective

The architecture of a web service-based remote control service system

There is increasing attention recently in the development of remote control and monitoring. Many applications and experiments have been done to apply internet technology in this field with the aim of developing a general and expendable architecture. In this paper, a novel Web Service-based Remote Control Service System (WSRCSS) is proposed. Compared with other designs, this system focuses on offering a service development and delivery environment. The system architecture and data structure for the system are given. Related works are also discussed in this paper

SUTMS - Unified Threat Management Framework for Home Networks

Home networks were initially designed for web browsing and non-business critical applications. As infrastructure improved, internet broadband costs decreased, and home internet usage transferred to e-commerce and business-critical applications. Today’s home computers host personnel identifiable information and financial data and act as a bridge to corporate networks via remote access technologies like VPN. The expansion of remote work and the transition to cloud computing have broadened the attack surface for potential threats. Home networks have become the extension of critical networks and services, hackers can get access to corporate data by compromising devices attacked to broad- band routers. All these challenges depict the importance of home-based Unified Threat Management (UTM) systems. There is a need of unified threat management framework that is developed specifically for home and small networks to address emerging security challenges. In this research, the proposed Smart Unified Threat Management (SUTMS) framework serves as a comprehensive solution for implementing home network security, incorporating firewall, anti-bot, intrusion detection, and anomaly detection engines into a unified system. SUTMS is able to provide 99.99% accuracy with 56.83% memory improvements. IPS stands out as the most resource-intensive UTM service, SUTMS successfully reduces the performance overhead of IDS by integrating it with the flow detection mod- ule. The artifact employs flow analysis to identify network anomalies and categorizes encrypted traffic according to its abnormalities. SUTMS can be scaled by introducing optional functions, i.e., routing and smart logging (utilizing Apriori algorithms). The research also tackles one of the limitations identified by SUTMS through the introduction of a second artifact called Secure Centralized Management System (SCMS). SCMS is a lightweight asset management platform with built-in security intelligence that can seamlessly integrate with a cloud for real-time updates

Optimal Home Energy Management System for Committed Power Exchange Considering Renewable Generations

This thesis addresses the complexity of SH operation and local renewable resources optimum sizing. The effect of different criteria and components of SH on the size of renewable resources and cost of electricity is investigated. Operation of SH with the optimum size of renewable resources is evaluated to study SH annual cost. The effectiveness of SH with committed exchange power functionality is studied for minimizing cost while responding to DR programs