Development of LED smart switch with light-weight middleware for location-aware services in smart home

In recent years, the home network has focused on service diversity and the intelligent enhancement of devices for providing user-centric services. Recent studies dealing with home network systems aggregate the sensor data and manage various devices for reasoning the adaptive services. However, home network systems, especially intelligent devices, are difficult to implement due to the high setup cost and the problems with interconnection among other devices in a home domain. Therefore, we consider the intelligent implementation of light switch present in whole spaces. We propose a LED Smart switch with light-weight middleware which provides location-aware service and pattern-based service prediction. The proposed switch with an embedded sensor manages active and passive events according to the sensor data analysis and the service reasoning. Furthermore, the LED smart switch locates the user and interconnects among other switches over a network connection. The smart switch using a LED display provides simple information service, such as weather forecast, stock information, and the light status, using icons and digitalized voices. To evaluate the efficiency of our switch, we implemented testbed, in a home and an office. Our switch reduces the service response time by up to 12% for our experiment.