This paper proposes a two-layer component-based middleware framework that copes with the complexity of managing and constructing efficient and useful SIP-based home services. In the first layer, the device integration framework overcomes the heterogeneity of media home devices by providing protocolindependent components that reify the underlying devices. At the second layer, the binding framewo...

Wireless home networks are widely deployed due to their low cost, ease of installation, and plug-and-play capabilities with consumer electronic devices. Participating devices may cache continuous media (audio and video clips) in order to reduce the demand for outside-the-home network resources and enhance the average delay incurred from when a user references a clip to the onset of its display ...

Australia is deploying a $30bn National Broadband Network for all Australians by 2021. At the same time, the ageing population has led to a focus on finding new ways to support patients to live independently for longer in their own homes and to support them to self-manage. While broadband connected home-based telehealth appears to hold promise, there remain few examples of successful implementa...

The aim of home automation is to control home devices from a central control point. In this paper, we present the design and implementation of a low cost but yet flexible and secure internet based home automation system. The communication between the devices is wireless. The protocol between the units in the design is enhanced to be suitable for most of the appliances. The system is designed to...

Broadband access service, including FTTH, is now in widespread use in Japan. More than half of the households that have broadband Internet access construct local area networks (home networks) in their homes. In addition, information appliances such as personal computers, networked audio, and visual devices and game machines are connected to home networks, and many novel service applications are...

Home media services are gaining in popularity with the ever-increasing availability of a wide variety of personal media devices. A number of media devices support UPnP technology for providing media services in a home network. UPnP technology is used to share media content among multiple media devices connected to a single network. However, UPnP-based home media services have a few problems. Fi...

Nowadays, the role of technology innovations in precaution, early diagnosis, and treatment is not deniable due to the increase in various types of electronics. Additionally, increasing costs of medical services and lack of medical expertise and specialists in remote regions double the necessity of using technology in this field. Wearable technology comprising a large group of worn gadgets, incl...

Nowadays, the computational devices are everywhere. In malls, offices, streets, cars and even in homes we can find devices providing and consuming functionality in order to improve the user satisfaction. These devices include sensors that provide information about the environment state (e.g., temperature, occupancy, light levels), service providers (e.g., Internet TVs, GPS), smartphones (that c...

I n this emerging era of pervasive computing, we interact with and rapidly switch among a diverse set of digital devices. We tend to transition from a smartphone to a notebook when arriving in the office, and when we return home, we often switch to a tablet. In between, we might use large wall-mounted displays, car navigation systems, selfcheckout kiosks at retail stores, and home security or s...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Quality of life (QOL) and sleepiness for patients with sleep apnea/hypopnea syndrome (SAHS) might improve with continuous positive airway pressure devices working in auto-adjust mode (autoCPAP) by allowing pressure modulations following patient needs. Clinical comparisons between devices driven by different algorithms are needed. METHODS We compared the clinical effecti...