M2M Device Cooperation Method Using iHAC Hub and Smart Speaker

Smart speakers with AI assistant, such as Amazon Echo and Google Home, and compatible IoT devices are emerging. The authors have developed an iHAC Hub that realizes coordinated operation of IoT devices that can be controlled by communication protocols. This paper proposes a cooperation method for M2M devices by using iHAC Hub and a smart speaker. In the proposed method, we provide a framework for cooperating environment sensing IoT devices and smart speaker compatible IoT devices. The iHAC Hub generates voice commands for controlling IoT devices by using the cloud service and reproduces them toward the smart speaker to realize cooperative control of the smart speaker compatible IoT device based on the environment information.