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ZUMA: a platform for smart-home environments
Author(s): C.R. Baker, Y. Markovsky, J. van Greunen, J. Rabaey, J. Wawrzynek, A. Wolisz
Source: 2nd IET International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE 06), 2006, p. v1:51 - v1:51
Type: ConferencePaper
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Although electronic devices permeate the home and offer unsurpassed power and features, many impediments still exist to realizing the concept of the smart-home: configuration complexity, minimal device interoperability, difficulty of use, lack of personalization, and no integration with sensors for awareness and adaptation. We define four tenets of smart-home environment: zero-configuration, universality, multi-user optimality, and adaptability (ZUMA), and describe a platform based on a set of clean abstractions for users, content, and devices. The platform enables configuration and organization of content and networked heterogeneous devices in a smart-home environment. We validate the platform with a prototype implementation and analyze its flexibility and infrastructure requirements. (10 pages)

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ZUMA: a platform for smart-home environments - the case for infrastructure
Author(s): J. van Greunen, Y. Markovsky, C.R. Baker, J. Rabaey, J. Wawrzynek, A. Wolisz
Source: 2nd IET International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE 06), 2006, p. v1:257 - v1:257
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A wide range of disconnected communication networks is emerging in the home. Each has different functions and implementation architectures. The user experience as well as the overall functionality would be vastly enhanced if these networks could collaborate in a seamless fashion. Collaboration is challenging because it requires disparate devices and components to interoperate in a user friendly, scalable and upgradeable fashion. We conjecture that such cooperation might be most efficiently assured using a supporting infrastructure. The universal contents router (UCR) is introduced as an infrastructural component. The UCR moves the burden of connectivity away from the end devices to the system core. The paper spells out ZUMA, or functions that a UCR should support, discusses UCR architecture and presents a first-order prototype. (10 pages)

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