IoT-enabled smart sockets for reconfigurable service provision

An upcoming Internet-of-Tings (IoT) and machine-to-machine (M2M) era will introduce new paradigms for designing smart-living technologies. According to Gartner's latest forecast, smart home will be the most potential field for IoT-enabled applications. Due to the increasing concern on maintaining a sustainable earth, energy savings should leverage IoT related advances for realizing next generation energy savings for a context-aware smart home, where a smart socket is one key enabler. However, most of the current smart sockets work in a standalone way and its configuration stays fixed over time. By incorporating the M2M related advancement, we implement an M2M-enabled and reconfigurable smart socket (hereafter referred to as m2mSocket) which can dynamically changes its configuration by flexibly connecting to remote smart machines to provide attentive services. This way, the system can better fulfill users' needs in a dynamic and IoT-enabled home environment.