A Proposal for an Integrated Smart Home Service Platform

The growing popularity of Internet-connected smart devices in consumers’ homes has led to a steady increase in the number of smart homes worldwide. In order to provide meaningful added value for consumers and businesses alike, smart devices need to be accompanied by services and applications which excel conventional devices’ usages. However, integrated solutions to support the development and operation of smart home services for, and across, different devices and application scenarios are still missing in research as well as in industry. In this paper, we present the motivation, requirements and an initial concept for a fully integrated smart home service platform (SHSP), which may serve as a basis for further discussion.