Digital Home Networking and Services with OSGi Platform

Technological advances and pervasiveness of the Internet have recently led to the development of diverse technologies for the digital home. This study presents an RFID-based interdynamic system with an OSGi platform to support applications for digital home surveillance. In the proposed system, the OSGi platform is called a Residential Gateway, and it controls and manages the digital home services. Four service functions, called bundles, are designed to support the home interdynamic application. These bundles are the Device Access, the RFID Device Manager, the Monitoring and the RTP Receiver bundles. The proposed system is applied in the interdynamic between people and home appliances. A person holding RFID Tags is identified by the home appliances, and then can issue requests to them. The proposed system has been implemented in a digital home testbed, revealing that it achieves high-quality home surveillance.