Gateway framework for home appliance's interoperability based on heterogeneous middleware in residential networks

Residential networks enable us to control and composite functions on different home appliances, but the diversity of home appliances brings various kinds of middleware into a single house. Because only one kind of middleware is not used, home appliances on different middleware networks cannot use one another's functions when they are physically connected. This paper proposes a generic framework for interoperability, in heterogeneous middleware networks, and presents residential networks constituted by UPnP and Havi networks as an example.