Obiettivo
HomeOnAir will provide advance home control services by means of a wireless remote access based on WAP technology, thus standardising and simplifying the methods and means for residential users to get access to their houses.
This goal implies the convergence of two distinct technologies:
1. Home networking / Home automation
2. The emerging Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)Trials will aim at the introduction of WAP technology to access a home automation server that is already available, but its commercial exploitation has not begun yet. By applying WAP technology, the final purpose is to extend the potential range of users covered and to offer them a more friendly interface for performing the full set of automation tasks.
Objectives:
Trials will aim at the introduction of WAP technology to access a set of home automation services already available. Trials will be focused on two bearers: both circuit-switched and packet-switched, over the existing GSM network and the emerging GPRS network respectively. By applying WAP technology to remotely access a home automation server, the final purpose is to extend the potential range of users covered (mobile phones are becoming more and more popular) and to offer them a more friendly interface for performing the full set of automation tasks available now through conventional Internet access. As business targets, the final objective will be an increase in the expected revenues either directly, by charging for the deployment of a new service, or indirectly, by increasing the number and the quality of the distribution channels.
Work description:
The project will start with the activities devoted to obtain the specification of a suitable technological architecture for performing the trials. These activities will have as inputs the current practice and the innovative technologies to be applied. Afterwards, the implementation work of the required HW/SW adaptations of the existing home automation server and the integration of the defined services will be carried out. Then, the trials itself will take place. Two types of users will be selected: a limited number of qualified users, with the system installed at their homes, and a wider group of users that will evaluate the system in a laboratory environment. The results of this experimentation will be measured and evaluated and feed back will be provided to the previous activities in order to increase the possibilities to meet the market needs. Moreover, an important work to achieve a broad and rapid diffusion of the results will be performed.
Milestones:
A description of the services, architecture and man-machine interface. The complete HomeOnAir system available for installation. A report on measurements and evaluation of the trials. The dissemination of results phase complete.
HomeOnAir milestones met per workpackage were:
WP1 ("Project Management"):- Kick-off meeting.- End of the take-up action.
WP2 ("Architecture definition"):- Description of the physical level architecture of the system completed.- Description of the high level services and man-machine interface. The specification of the architecture proposed in HomeOnAir was guided by the architecture followed by the previous implementation of the home-services platform developed by TID. This platform was based in a PC (as by that time there were not commercial residential gateways that could substitute the functionalities offered by the user's PC), and its main advantage was that it was totally modular and scalable, and thus could cover as many user interfaces and home networks as possible. The architecture proposed consists of 3 different types of modules: The PPC, "Main Control Process", in charge of receiving the orders that came from whichever user interface (web, SMS, PSTN, and -since HomeOnAir was implemented- WAP) and of dispatching these orders to the appropriate home automation network. There was 1 module to manage each user interface (sending orders from the user to the PPC and receiving answers and status of the home appliances that had to be shown from the PPC to the user). And there was too 1 module to manage each home automation network installed at user's home. In the case of HomeOnAir, the platform can manage Lonworks and X-10 home automation networks.
WP3 ("Platform adaptation and service integration"): - Phase 1 software modules adapted/implemented and unitary tests completed. - Operative prototype ready. - Phase 2 platforms components integrated and integration tests completed. The work undertaken in this WP consisted mainly in the adaptation of the existing generic modules of the architecture to accommodate the new one (in charge of the management of the WAP interface). The platform database was re-designed. All modules were deeply tested before integrating the new one. The testing of the whole platform was done in TID laboratories in Madrid and Boecillo, and this phase was very useful to debug errors and refine the functionalities offered by the WAP home services implemented (home control, shopping list, agenda, etc).
WP4 ("Trials"): - Trial scenarios and test cases specified. - Technical experimentation completed. Trials were specified to be done in 4 real houses. Nevertheless, during the specification phase the Consortium decided to extend the sample of users by organising in parallel trials in the HomeTalk demonstrators in Boecillo and Madrid. Finally experimentation with HomeOnAir services was done in 4 homes and in the demonstrator of Boecillo. WP5 ("Measurement and evaluation of results"): - Optimum platform performance. - Service evaluation by the users completed. The experimentation was guided by the Human Factors department of TID, in charge of the collection of log files (objective measurements of use) and the questionnaires the users fulfilled periodically (subjective measurements on HomeOnAir usability, usefulness and general satisfaction). Results shown that security related services were the most appealing for the users (by security we mean reactive actions from the home when a technical alarm occurred; the platform notified the user via SMS and performed the appropriate actions to palliate the harmful consequences of the dangerous situation (water leakage, gas leakage, fire detection, intrusion detection, etc). Following security services, comfort related services were also well accepted by the users (remote operation of the lights, switching on-off of the heating, remote opening of the front door when a relative tries to enter, etc). In general, HomeOnAir services evaluated during the trials phase were evaluated as satisfactory, the WAP interface was valued as very easy to use and the only concern in adopting the services was price. Users are willing to pay for being notified when there is an abnormality at home but are more reticent to pay to check whether the home appliances are in the desired state (on-off) or to operate over them.
WP6 ("Dissemination of results"): - Publicity material and Web pages available. - Press notes and technical articles available. - Exhibition at international meetings and technological fairs.
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CORDIS classifica i progetti con EuroSciVoc, una tassonomia multilingue dei campi scientifici, attraverso un processo semi-automatico basato su tecniche NLP. Cfr.: Il Vocabolario Scientifico Europeo.
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