Combining a Multi-Agent System and Communication Middleware for Smart Home Control: A Universal Control Platform Architecture
In recent years, the smart home field has gained wide attention for its broad application prospects. However, families using smart home systems must usually adopt various heterogeneous smart devices, including sensors and devices, which makes it more difficult to manage and control their home system...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5620528/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28926957 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s17092135 |
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author | Zheng, Song Zhang, Qi Zheng, Rong Huang, Bi-Qin Song, Yi-Lin Chen, Xin-Chu |
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description | In recent years, the smart home field has gained wide attention for its broad application prospects. However, families using smart home systems must usually adopt various heterogeneous smart devices, including sensors and devices, which makes it more difficult to manage and control their home system. How to design a unified control platform to deal with the collaborative control problem of heterogeneous smart devices is one of the greatest challenges in the current smart home field. The main contribution of this paper is to propose a universal smart home control platform architecture (IAPhome) based on a multi-agent system and communication middleware, which shows significant adaptability and advantages in many aspects, including heterogeneous devices connectivity, collaborative control, human-computer interaction and user self-management. The communication middleware is an important foundation to design and implement this architecture which makes it possible to integrate heterogeneous smart devices in a flexible way. A concrete method of applying the multi-agent software technique to solve the integrated control problem of the smart home system is also presented. The proposed platform architecture has been tested in a real smart home environment, and the results indicate that the effectiveness of our approach for solving the collaborative control problem of different smart devices. |
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spelling | pubmed-56205282017-10-03 Combining a Multi-Agent System and Communication Middleware for Smart Home Control: A Universal Control Platform Architecture Zheng, Song Zhang, Qi Zheng, Rong Huang, Bi-Qin Song, Yi-Lin Chen, Xin-Chu Sensors (Basel) Article In recent years, the smart home field has gained wide attention for its broad application prospects. However, families using smart home systems must usually adopt various heterogeneous smart devices, including sensors and devices, which makes it more difficult to manage and control their home system. How to design a unified control platform to deal with the collaborative control problem of heterogeneous smart devices is one of the greatest challenges in the current smart home field. The main contribution of this paper is to propose a universal smart home control platform architecture (IAPhome) based on a multi-agent system and communication middleware, which shows significant adaptability and advantages in many aspects, including heterogeneous devices connectivity, collaborative control, human-computer interaction and user self-management. The communication middleware is an important foundation to design and implement this architecture which makes it possible to integrate heterogeneous smart devices in a flexible way. A concrete method of applying the multi-agent software technique to solve the integrated control problem of the smart home system is also presented. The proposed platform architecture has been tested in a real smart home environment, and the results indicate that the effectiveness of our approach for solving the collaborative control problem of different smart devices. MDPI 2017-09-16 /pmc/articles/PMC5620528/ /pubmed/28926957 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s17092135 Text en © 2017 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Zheng, Song Zhang, Qi Zheng, Rong Huang, Bi-Qin Song, Yi-Lin Chen, Xin-Chu Combining a Multi-Agent System and Communication Middleware for Smart Home Control: A Universal Control Platform Architecture |
title | Combining a Multi-Agent System and Communication Middleware for Smart Home Control: A Universal Control Platform Architecture |
title_full | Combining a Multi-Agent System and Communication Middleware for Smart Home Control: A Universal Control Platform Architecture |
title_fullStr | Combining a Multi-Agent System and Communication Middleware for Smart Home Control: A Universal Control Platform Architecture |
title_full_unstemmed | Combining a Multi-Agent System and Communication Middleware for Smart Home Control: A Universal Control Platform Architecture |
title_short | Combining a Multi-Agent System and Communication Middleware for Smart Home Control: A Universal Control Platform Architecture |
title_sort | combining a multi-agent system and communication middleware for smart home control: a universal control platform architecture |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5620528/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28926957 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s17092135 |
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