A Service Oriented Smart Home Architecture for Better Quality of Service Management

Smart home environments require tight coupling between different types of sensors, actuators, and computer algorithms. To address the challenges in building a robust and effective smart home environment, it is essential to develop a systematic approach to handling a large number of components and their interactions. We describe a holistic, multi-layered, and service oriented approach to smart home environment design that will enable abstractions needed for enforcing performance constraints. This paper presents our approach and presents preliminary results with a Quality of Service manager that enforces load balancing. We show that a simple load balancing scheme can be very effective compared to intuitive ad-hoc implementations of representative tasks.