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''' Our team has chosen Home automation article to develop it into a good article. I am working on the user perspective and technical implementation of the home automation. According to the user perspective, in total we have three different ways of accessing the services of our home server. They are: mobile service, voice-based, and touch sense based.

Mobile home automation: merging mobile value added services and home automation technologies: http://link.springer.com.ezproxy.ltu.edu:8080/article/10.1007%2Fs10257-008-0095-zStadepell (talk) 03:07, 3 October 2016 (UTC) Home automation or smart home is the residential extension of building automation and involves the control and automation of lighting, heating (such as smart thermostats), ventilation, air conditioning (HVAC), and security, as well as home appliances such as washer/dryers, ovens or refrigerators/freezers that use WiFi for remote monitoring. Modern systems generally consist of switches and sensors connected to a central hub sometimes called a "gateway" from which the system is controlled with a user interface that is interacted either with a wall-mounted terminal, mobile phone software, tablet computer or a web interface, often but not always via internet cloud services. A WiFi network connected to the internet can be vulnerable to hacking. Technology is still in its infancy, and consumers could invest in a system that becomes abandon ware. In 2014, Google bought the company selling the Revolve Hub home automation system, integrated it with Nest and in 2016 shut down the servers Revolve Hub depended on, rendering the hardware useless. Microsoft Research found in 2011, that home automation could involve high cost of ownership, inflexibility of interconnected devices, and poor manageability.

Historically systems have been sold as complete systems where the consumer relies on one vendor for the entire system including the hardware, the communications protocol, the central hub, and the user interface. However, there are now open source software systems which can be used with proprietary hardware.Stadepell (talk) 12:51, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

HISTORY

The history of home automation is enormous as a new technology replaces the old one and thereby making the history of the home automation big day by day. The first generation to the latest technolgy of home automation there is been a dramatic change starting from Zigbee to Robot integrated home automation.

Wireless technology with proxy server, e.g. Zigbee automation:

The birth of home automation took place starting with the first generation wireless technology using the proxy server. The best example for such a kind of automation is the Zigbee automation which is a stand alone, low-cost and flexible home automation system. One can able to monitor and control the electronic gadgets or devices at home without physically present or by without physically touching them. This is made possible by the Zigbee based remote control system or by any Wi-Fi enabled device which supports the internet enabled Java application. A home gateway is implemented to facilitate interoperability between heterogeneous networks and provide a consistent interface, regardless of the accessing device. Zigbee technology is designed to be used on applications that require low data rate, low-cost, low power consumption, and two way wireless communications. The Wi-Fi standard is designed to provide relatively high data rate communications. Wi-Fi has the advantage of an existing and wide spread presence in homes in the United Kingdom. The combination of Zigbee and Wi-Fi technologies has the potential to provide a comprehensive home automation solution.

The mix of Zigbee technology and the WiFi technology has brought a good solution for the affective smart home. The maintainance of the network is taken care by Zigbee coordinator where all the electronic devices such as Washing Machine, Television, Lamp etc. The Zigbee coordinator acts as the middleware between the communicating devices as the interaction is between the machines and there is no human involvement. The wireless nature of Zigbee helps to overcome the intrusive installation problem with the existing home automation systems identified earlier. The ZigBee standard theoretically provides 250kbps data rate, and as 40kbps can meet the requirements of most control systems, it is sufficient for controlling most home automation devices. It is not just the Zigbee coordinator but also Zigbee router and Zigbee end device that play a major role. Zigbee router forms the network backbone and the Zigbee end device is connected to the target systems and also to the router or the coordinatior.

Robot buddy "who" interacts with humans, e.g. Robot Rovio:

The latest version or the most widely used home automation in recent times is Robot buddy automation in which the communication is with humans and not the devices or machines unlike in the first generation Zigbee technology. This technology is highly sophisticatedand one of the best examples of this technology is Robot Rovio. By the means of the Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) the desired adapter is developed and integrated to service the Robot Rovio into a smart home. There are various forms of services designed to explore the possibilities derived from the integration of service robots in the smart home. The future of smart homes points clearly towards the ambient intelligence paradigm. In this environment, service robots are completely integrated in the home and it is easy to imagine scenarios in which robots and smart home systems cooperate. It is because, if we consider the autonomous mower would likely to perform only when it is not raining. The another example could be to use surveillance robots to complement the information from the intrusion sensors. The ambient technology has many advantages and also the equal drawbacks one out which is the most important ones being the lack of interoperability.

In the recent times even though the technology took greater shapes in all forms still the high technology multiple heterogenous electronic devices has the independcent nature and they are very difficult to integrate with other devices. Robot Rovio is equipped with a webcam, microphone and a loudspeaker and is controlled by using WiFi by means of any web-enabled device and its main applications are surveillance and telepresence. It was used for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) in, where it was equipped with a laser pointer to map a region together with the camera.

Rovio is the best example of perfectly integrated service robots for the smart homes and it has allowed us to develop new advanced services that illustrate the benefits of interoperability in the smart home. It also has a latest technology applied to it where it has a built in camera to implement a basic garbage detection routine that allows the smart home to send the Roomba to clean whenever garbage is detected. We believe that there is an enormous potential in this kind of services and that it is not difficult or costly to enhance the capabilities that current service robots offer to the smart home.

End-to-end principle

I proposed a change in the end to end principle article since the article looks very weak in terms of the quantity and also the quality. I read couple of peer reviewed articles and I felt that end to end argument is very important when we are talking about the end to end principle but I don't see end to end argument discussed in the article. SO I added few sentences in the talk page and I think that it should definitely need to be added for the article to be the good article. In the article talk page I said that, I feel that the article has a major scope of improvement in all the sections. The article is very short with incomplete sections. There are some section which has only one line explanation. All this if still exist it is difficult for the article to become a good article. I propose the small improvement in the article by adding end to end argument which the article does not even talk about. The end to end argument is the set of instructions that drive the existence of the functions within a distributed system. The computer network which is a part of the lower layer of the distributed system must ignore the activities that are better implemented in the end systems. If this scenario works out better then the end to end principle in the computer networking works effectively.Stadepell (talk) 22:43, 24 October 2016 (UTC) Security on home automation is a developing aspect for the Internet of Things. This includes securing the data in-between connected devices and the devices themselves. Currently, security has developed into the following topcis:

·      Device security

·      System Security

·      Environment focused environment

Device Security

·      Device fingerprinting

·      Mobile device security

There is a dual focus on the security of the devices. Device fingerprinting is evolving with improvements and failures of the approach. Using a dual approach of device fingerprinting and login credentials, provide a high level of security and identification, up to 97.93%[1]. Mobile device security demand is growing with the volume of connected devices grows. HASec, Home Automation and Security system for mobile devices, operates and controls the device though motion detectors and video camera for remote sensing, surveillance, live video streams, record for playback, and manages the device operation[2]. This includes turning the device on or off. For security, the detected motion will trigger alerts for possible violations. The main components for interaction include iOS application for device interaction and server scripts for interaction with the cloud.

System Security

·      Reed Solomon codes

·      Embedded programmable logic controller

·      Vision based intelligent security system

·      Agent based system

·      Zigbee security – attribute based re-encryption

·      Intrusion checkers to resist malicious attacks

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