Remote mobile control of home appliances

This paper describes an approach for interconnecting home and mobile networks to enable the control of consumer electronics devices (TV, VCR, camera, CD speller, radio, etc.), connected in a home network, from a remote mobile device like a mobile telephone or a Web pad. Typical applications are: remote mobile programming of VCR, remote mobile control of heating thermostats, remote mobile monitoring of security cameras, etc. The feasibility of this approach has been demonstrated by a prototype implementation, in which we have selected HAVi and WAP as two of the emerging entertainment and communication network technologies.