Remote control of EIB systems based on virtual shared group objects

This article presents a new framework for the development of local and remote EIB (European Installation Bus) applications for monitoring and controlling EIB systems. While conventional EIB applications are based on traditional message passing, we propose an approach on virtual shared group objects. On top of an EIB bus communication system that serves for the communication between an EIB system and an external computer an EIB object server system is introduced, that offers common access to EIB systems by setting up and maintaining a virtual shared group object space, thus reducing bus traffic significantly. Read and write requests of local and remote EIB applications are performed as local operations on corresponding virtual shared group objects.