ECHONET Lite-based IoT Platform for Smart Homes

In this paper, we introduce an ECHONET Lite based IoT platform which allows households to set up smart home environment with ease as well as allows service providers to deploy their IoT applications easily and securely. Our proposed platform is fully implemented with three main features: a simple process for integrating new IoT devices into smart home environment, a seamless data transfer mechanism between IoT devices and service providers, and a RESTful API for verifying and supporting service providers to deploy their IoT applications into our platform. The experimental results verified the practicability of our proposed IoT platform.