NodePI : An integrated platform for smart homes

Abstract

The trend towards the digitalization of our homes is motivated by the development of hardware and software platforms that have been researched in recent years. As in the Internet of Things, building a single, global platform that enables communication with a myriad of devices for home automation is virtually impossible. The platform proposed in this work deals, in isolation, with the problems in each stage of residential automation systems' information generation process, making data from different sources compatible and available in a web application through a gateway. In addition to addressing interoperability issues, an SDN-based firewall applies access control rules to objects that are part of the automated network. Real experiments were carried out to validate the NodePI platform.