A case study of implementing home appliance middleware on Linux and Java

This paper describes a case study of implementing a home appliance that enables us to control it via HTTP. The appliance been has implemented by using the Java language, and runs on Linux. The combination enables us to build the home appliance very cheaply. We present the implementation of our current prototype of a Web-based home appliance, and show how the combination of Java and Linux has reduced the development cost dramatically.