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The use of image recognition technology to complete the precise pose measurement of objects has always been a difficulty in the field of computer vision. This paper proposes a precision pose measurement technology based on multi-cooperation logo, which uses OpenCV and Aruco to complete the generation of cooperative logo. Through the uPnP algorithm to complete the relative pose detection of the camera and the cooperation logo, and then the precise pose measurement of the multi-cooperation sign is completed by Gaussian filtering and iteration of the nearest neighbor. Compared with the traditional positioning method, it has higher accuracy and robustness. This technology has important reference value in robot positioning.

The ubiquitous nature of the IoT devices has brought serious security implications to its users. A lot of consumer IoT devices have little to no security implementation at all, thus risking user's privacy and making them target of mass cyber-attacks. Indeed, recent outbreak of Mirai botnet and its variants have already proved the lack of security on the IoT world. Hence, it is important to understand the security issues and attack vectors in the IoT domain. Though significant research has been done to secure traditional computing systems, little focus was given to the IoT realm. In this work, we reduce this gap by developing a honeypot framework for IoT devices. Specifically, we introduce U-PoT: a novel honeypot framework for capturing attacks on IoT devices that use Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol. A myriad of smart home devices including smart switches, smart bulbs, surveillance cameras, smart hubs, etc. uses the UPnP protocol. Indeed, a simple search on Shodan IoT search engine lists 1,676,591 UPnP devices that are exposed to public network. The popularity and ubiquitous nature of UPnP-based IoT device necessitates a full-fledged IoT honeypot system for UPnP devices. Our novel framework automatically creates a honeypot from UPnP device description documents and is extendable to any device types or vendors that use UPnP for communication. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work towards a flexible and configurable honeypot framework for UPnP-based IoT devices. We released U-PoT under an open source license for further research and created a database of UPnP device descriptions. We also evaluated our framework on two emulated deices. Our experiments show that the emulated devices are able to mimic the behavior of a real IoT device and trick vendor-provided device management applications or popular IoT search engines while having minimal performance ovherhead., Comment: International Performance Computing and Communications Conference

Smart cities is a new concept that allows using New Information and Telecommunication Technologies to make cities smart in order to offer easier life for their citizens. Currently, among the most difficult problems facing citizens is the discovery of available services and their required information. Solving this problem is very important mainly when the use of such services is vital; for example, when someone is seeking to acquire a medicine in a city that he has never visited before. In such a case, he needs to find the nearest pharmacy that sell this medicine and the way to go toward it. Without the help of the smart city, this operation may take a long time (even many hours). In order to tackle this problem, we propose to migrate the Universal Plug and Play (UPnP), used to discover devices and services at home, from the indoor to the outdoor environment. Thus, we propose the Outdoor UPnP (OUPnP). The major contributions of this work may be enumerated as follows: $(i)$ extending the description mechanism of UPnP to take into account business services, (ii) replacing the broadcasting mechanism used by UPnP by a server to broadcast discovery messages, (iii) using the concept of fog computing to limit broadcasting messages to a narrow geographic area and finally (iv) enhancing the performance of the system by preserving end-users privacy. In order to validate the proposed solution, we consider a case study which consists of looking for a medicine in Meftah city.

With the arrival of the Internet of Things (IoT), more devices appear online with default credentials or lacking proper security protocols. Consequently, we have seen a rise of powerful DDoS attacks originating from IoT devices in the last years. In most cases the devices were infected by bot malware through the telnet protocol. This has lead to several honeypot studies on telnet-based attacks.However, IoT installations also involve other protocols, for example for Machine-to-Machine communication. Those protocols often provide by default only little security. In this paper, we present a measurement study on attacks against or based on those protocols. To this end, we use data obtained from a /15 network telescope and three honey-pots with 15 IPv4 addresses. We find that telnet-based malware is still widely used and that infected devices are employed not only for DDoS attacks but also for crypto-currency mining. We also see, although at a much lesser frequency, that attackers are looking for IoT-specific services using MQTT, CoAP, UPnP, and HNAP, and that they target vulnerabilities of routers and cameras with HTTP.

Wearable technology is the icing on the cake of people's daily life with unparalleled convenience. The emerging of industrial wearables has brought the advantages of wearable technology to industries, which endows the industrial objects with sensing abilities. These advantages have also been well accepted by E-commerce distribution centers (ECDC) to facilitate their manual operations such as picking, sorting and consolidating. Aiming at accelerating fast deployment for industrial wearables, this paper proposes a lightweight framework for mobile middleware system called Mobile Gateway Operation System (MGOS). It is an overall middleware solution to bridge multiple heterogeneous industrial wearables with enterprise information systems (EISs). A hot universal plug and play (HUPnP) mechanism is designed to make industrial wearables easy-to-use and ensures the availability under the disturbed wearable environments. A prototype system is developed and demonstrated based on E-commerce consolidation scenarios in laboratory environment.

The task of network monitoring becomes tedious with increase in the network size, heterogeneity and complexity. The available network monitoring and management solutions are not only expensive but also difficult to use, configure and maintain. Manually pin pointing a faulty device in the large complex network is very tricky and time consuming for network administrators. Thus, an automated system is needed that immediately reports to network administrator about fault type and location as soon as it arises. This paper presents design and implementation of an intelligent network monitoring and reporting back system for large size organizations/industries. It is based on programming open-source tools (such as Nagios and RT) and intelligently integrating them to monitor network devices such as switches and routers. To monitor end-user devices in the network, a software package has been developed using Universal Plug & Play (UPnP) technology. The developed monitoring system immediately notifies network administrator as soon as a network problem arises. The notification message clearly pin points the fault location in network topology, its type and impact on rest of the network. If the network problem is not resolved within the pre-specified deadline, a second notification is sent out to the next responsible person. Thus, all people in the priority list are notified one by one with pre-specified deadlines until the problem is resolved.

Legacy electrical grids are urged to evolve towards smart grids, the smarter power delivery system that relies heavily on ICT. Numerous smart grids applications are expected to be developed for efficient management and utilization of electricity at the demand side such as home automation, Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), dynamic energy pricing, efficient load management, etc. For easing and boosting the development of new demand side services, the concept of Home Energy Gateway (HEG) has recently been proposed in literature. It involves communication with the utility as well as with devices at the consumer sites. The literature still lacks a comprehensive HEG design that could provide all essential features such as zero-configuration, auto-discovery, seamless plug & play communication, interoperability and integration, customers privacy and communication security. This paper addresses the HEG challenges in an effective way through the design of suitable communication frameworks and a security mechanism for enabling strong protection against cyber attacks. The proposed system effectively copes with the interoperability and integration issues between plethora of heterogeneous devices at the consumer sites. The devices in proposed system inherit plug & play features and support zero-configuration and seamless networking. Further, the proposed system design is technology-agnostic and flexible enough to be adopted for the implementation of any specific demand side service. This paper also evaluates the proposed system in real-networking environment and presents performance metrics.

Due to the advancements in the capabilities of smart devices and home networks, we are able to easily access multimedia contents stored in a home server. In this paper, we present a wireless media content sharing mechanism for home networks that utilizes UPnP-based DLNA technology. We also present a novel Peer-to-Peer content sharing system that is able to operate on the client as well as server. Our system supports multiple push/pull services simultaneously via a multi-thread technique, and our intuitive user interface facilitates ease of use. Future studies would explore the feasibility of implementing our system in a multi-hop environment or providing a community-wide service.

The concept of "cloud asset" is first proposed for urban flood control.The framework of cloud asset is worked out from both hardware and software aspects.Cloud asset enabled workflow management is presented.A case is given to verify the effectiveness of cloud asset. The performance of physical assets has become a major determinant success factor for urban flood control. However, managing these assets is always challenging as there are a huge number of diverse assets involved, which are distributed throughout the city, and owned by different agencies. Aiming at improving the management efficiency of these assets, and ensuring their performance, this paper proposes the concept of cloud asset based on cloud computing, mobile agent, and various smart devices. Through hardware integration and software encapsulation, cloud asset could sense its real-time status, adapt to varied working scenarios, be controlled remotely, and shared among agencies. It enables accurate real-time control of every asset, and thus improves the management efficiency and effectiveness. This paper first presents the concept of cloud asset with its technical architecture, and then analyses the software agent model for cloud asset, which is the key enabler to realize UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) management of assets, and provides mobility and intelligence for them. After that, the framework of cloud asset-enabled workflow management is built, in which cloud asset could be easily found and dynamically invoked by different workflows. Finally, a demonstrative case is provided to verify the effectiveness of cloud asset.

Display Omitted We present a system that enables Personal Health Devices to share information in home networks and with the Internet.The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) is used as underlying protocol.The CoAP communication model was adapted to the ISO/IEEE 11073 model in the proposed system.Results showed how the network overhead is around 50% lighter when compared to other protocols.Interoperability experiments demonstrated how the proposed solution can work with legacy systems. The increasing costs of healthcare along with the increasing availability of new Personal Health Devices (PHDs) are the ingredients of the connected health vision. Also, a growing number of consumer electronic and mobile devices are becoming capable of taking the role of a health gateway, thus operating as a data collector for PHDs. In this context, we present a system that enables PHDs to share information in home networks and with the Internet based on a new Internet of Things protocol, namely the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP). CoAP is used along with the IEEE 11073 family of standards, which is the main exchange data model for PHD communication. We discuss how the proposed system can be integrated to other connected health systems, such as a Universal Plug and Play healthcare system. We detail how the CoAP communication model was adapted to the IEEE 11073 model. We also present a real PHD prototype and its evaluation results. These results demonstrated the feasibility of the proposed solution, showing how its network overhead is around 50% lighter when compared to other protocols. Finally, we tested the proposed solution based on different scenarios, including a proof-of-concept integration with a service in the cloud, using different wireless physical interfaces.

Cloud computing is becoming a key element in service provision, allowing access to resources across internet transparently without the hassle of investing hardware resources nor maintaining or managing them. At present, sharing of media files with friends and families get admired worldwide. UPNA or DLNA are protocols designed to share content between devices within home network. It lacks the mechanism to share content outside the home domain and it doesn’t support advanced search capabilities. To alleviate the above problem, we propose Media Cloud, a middleware instantiated in set-top boxes to manage media transparently allowing uniform access to multimedia content belonging to different home. In addition, construction of cloud computing and security mechanism of material protection calculating method, namely, Global Authentication Register System (GARS), to reduce cloud material outflow risk.

UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) protocol has been frequently applied to the Internet gateway device. However, with the gateway device becoming intelligent, UPnP generated more and more security issues. Therefore, the current research aims to introduce the workflow of UPnP protocol in gateway equipment, analyze the security problems existing in some workflows and realize a set of UPnP detection and utilization system for UPnP in the application of gateway device.

Regarding conventional driving scenarios, vehicles are isolated and self-secured without interaction although many vehicles may exist in a surrounding. Driving safety is thus secured by individual driving behavior; that says, drivers must take care of themselves. Whereas many technologies contribute to the rapid development of vehicular networking and applications, it can lead to better quality of driving experience. This paper proposes a system and method for inter-vehicle media content distribution for driving safety. The system aims to expand the range of a drivers’ vision by sharing front-end views of neighbor vehicles on the road. In this system, we use the Wi-Fi facility to establish an inter-vehicle communication network, use the UPnP protocol to manage vehicles, and then use RTSP to deliver real-time video to other vehicles in a network. Thus, drivers can catch a broad view through the sharing services of front views. In addition, this system provides functions to record images, road features and geographical information, and then to transfer them onto a back-end database. The system will be able to notify traffic accidents and situations on the warming map, so the drivers can browse the information to recognize what happens in front of them before approaching to the area. Accordingly, we design a system architecture, develop a software prototype, and demonstrate practical scenarios.

In order to achieve network interface plug and play (PnP) of IEEE 1451 networked smart sensor, this paper presents network interface's universal plug and play (UPnP) mechanism of IEEE 1451 networked smart sensor. Firstly, UPnP based IEEE 1451 networked smart sensor system structure is set up. The self-recognition information conversion between IEEE 1451 model and UPnP model are elaborated. Scheduling delay based sensing service discovery protocol (SD-SSDP) and information axiom based multi-index sensing device optimization (IA-MISDO) are proposed and researched specially. Then IEEE 1451/UPnP network bridge is designed to realize data format conversion, command format conversion, self-recognition information conversion and protocol conversion. The simulation experiment result shows that the correct reception rate of response message of SD-SSDP is 100%. The real experiment result shows that modified UPnP based IEEE 1451 networked smart sensor system's device update success rate is higher than 98.89% and its service update success rate is higher than 98.86%.

Internet of Things (IoT) is associate degree rising conception which can interconnect billions of devices (such as smartphones, sensors and alternative networking devices), to speak with one another. IoT may be a system wherever objects embedded with detector technology to act with one another over wireless communication medium to come up with, exchange and transfer knowledge without human interaction. This interconnection is relevant in many ways like timely coordination with many simple devices such as sensors, thermostats, fitbits, routers etc. Due to open and heterogeneous nature of these networks, they are highly prone to vulnerable attacks. So privacy and security is the biggest concern in this technology. This paper focuses on common IoT vulnerabilities like Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS), Data modification attacks in background section. It covers privacy and security concerns in different segments like web interface vulnerabilities, device connections, spamming, data storage issues, IoT network related problems like Sybil attacks, cloud connectivity considerations, Industrial IoT attacks. There have been many privacy preserving mechanisms discovered (like Learning Automata based solution, disabling Universal Plug and Play, DDOS ALERT mechanisms, Rigorous Testing etc.) and related research is still going on. The goal of this paper to present the security and privacy concerns that IoT environment is facing and existing mechanisms to protect it.

We can perceive the advent of Smart Home attributed to the rapid emerging of embedded and tiny intelligent devices and sensors. However, most of current Smart Home systems are still being developed based on the so-called "the system is the application" philosophy, causing the developers to take care of all technical details from ground up. There is relatively little research focuses on the theoretical aspects so that the independent research achievements or results are not interoperable. The concept of the "Ambient", which refers to a bounded place with computing capability, is one of the most important issues when implementing a system in Smart Home. The results of a service composition are not optimized if the concept of Ambient is not taken into account. This paper aims to investigate the spatial issues systematically from theoretical aspects. We propose several new spatial abstractions and a spatial-aware service management scheme on top of a UPnP-based robust service management protocol. Formal validation is also performed to verify the robustness of the proposed approach.

With the rapid development of computer and network technology, our everyday life is more and more influenced. In the information age it is an inevitable trend that consumer electronics will become more and more intelligentized and interconnected. Taking into account the characteristics of external network users’ access to a home networking, as well as the important role that the residential gateway plays in the interaction between external networks and home networking, this paper presents the idea of a unique access interface of the home networking. Furthermore, this paper designs and implements an IPv6-based UPnP real-time video and audio capture device, and the real-time audio/video stream captured is forwarded to external network users through the residential gateway. Other multimedia applications can be resolved in the same way.

Web Service for Devices (WSFD) sees a perspective of being able to build service-oriented and event-driven applications on top of these devices with Web service capabilities and a seamless integration into existing World Wide Web infrastructure. The authors introduce in this paper PS4PCSim, a proactive simulator toolkit for pervasive computing applications and environments. It has been implemented and used to test and simulate various context-aware pervasive systems in different application areas using UPnP infrastructure and the WSFD technology like a smart office or house with ambient sensors, actuators and physical devices.

Pervasive environments are characterized by a large number of embedded devices offering their services to the user. Which of the available services are of most interest to the user considerably depends on the user's current context. Spontaneous service discovery and selection is one of the most important fields of research in pervasive computing. In this paper the authors will present an enhancement of ubiquitous computing discovery mechanisms adding context handling capabilities to Web Services for Devices in Pervasive Computing using UPnP as an infrastructure to address these implicit requests. User preferences, network and location are described by a formal context model ontology that is based on two levels: a generic level and a domain specific level. As compared with previous research, the authors' method uses location aware, UPnP infrastructure, web service for devices and the notion of proactivity in pervasive computing to continuously present the Spontaneous most relevant services to the user or device in response to changes of context, services or user preferences.

Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) is a technology for devices interconnection and resource sharing in the home network. However, the UPnP network has a construct. User can only access local resources within the UPnP network, but user is Unable to access the resources outside the home network such as the resources of the user on the Internet. Now social network is popular, the user has a lot of resources in their own social network. How can the user realize resource sharing on social network to the UPnP network? It can make user can easily access to the user’s social resources on the network in their own UPnP home network. We found that most of the social network based on open platform OAuth authorization to third party that call the API to access the resources in social network. We now put forward a solution that is based on the architecture of UPnP AV, we can extend the media server’s function that call the social network open platform API to realize the resources sharing between social network and the UPnP network.

A brain computer interface-based smart living environmental auto-adjustment control system (BSLEACS) is proposed in this paper. Recently, many environmental control systems have been proposed to improve human quality of life. However, little research has focused on environmental control directly using the human physiological state. Based on the advantage of our technique on brain computer interface (BCI), we integrated the BCI technique with universal plug and play (UPnP) home networking for smart house applications. BSLEACS mainly consists of a wireless physiological signal acquisition module, an embedded signal processing module, a simple control protocol/power line communication environmental controller, and a host system. Here, the physiological signal acquisition module and embedded signal processing module were designed for long-term electroencephalogram (EEG) monitoring and backend analysis, respectively. The advantages of low power consumption and small volume of the above modules are suitable for smart house applications in daily life. Moreover, different from other BCI systems, the property of using only a single EEG channel to monitor cognitive state also makes BSLEACS become more practicable. BSLEACS has been verified in a practical demo room, and the environmental adjustment can be automatically controlled by the change of the user's cognitive state. BSLEACS provides a novel system prototype for environmental control, and can be simply extended and integrated with the UPnP home networking for other applications.

The IGRS security mechanisms, UPnP security mechanisms as well as non-secure IGRS and UPnP based on the pipeline interconnection methods are discussed study proposes a IGRS and UPnP interconnected security mechanism to protect the interconnection between them security, effectively prevent non-secure interconnection network vulnerabilities against various attacks.

Mass-market users exploit remote storage solutions and centralized online social network (OSN) services to share user-generated content. Although these solutions are widely adopted, they introduce several issues related to user content/metadata migration on server-side components managed by third-party providers. The authors propose a middleware solution to support social-driven peer-to-peer content sharing while preserving content ownership. A prototype demonstrates the proposal's feasibility in terms of both performance results and easy integration with off-the-shelf devices using unmodified HTTP/UPnP protocols.

This investigation presents an agent-based smart (ABS) home system that automates home-service operations. The ABS home system comprises three subsystems, namely user interface, home gateway, and home functionality. ABS home users can request services with handheld devices through an ABS user interface, and receive them through an agent cooperation mechanism. This investigation has designed three agents and implemented them in the agent platform: the manager agent schedules the service processes; the service agent manages service requests, and the task agent executes service operations. With home-functionality subsystems including location servers, message centers, and multimedia centers in ABS homes, services are conveniently provided, efficient, and comfortably manipulated. The Universal Plug and Play feature adopts IP network technology to control, manage, and transfer data among functionality devices in ABS homes. The proposed service-scheduling mechanism provides services that are conveniently provided, efficient, and comfortably manipulated. This study presents an implementation of the ABS home system to illustrate the feasibility of the proposed architecture. The study also presents a performance evaluation to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed mechanism.

Smart Grid Systems mainly relies on many secondary automatic systems and information systems, such as Smart Grid Dispatch and Control System, Distribution Automation System, Automatic Safety Devices, Marketing System and etc. These systems are frequently incompatible with many devices and therefore waste much manpower for the compatibility. These systems cannot fulfill automatic configuration, auto-discovery, rapid reconstruction and etc. Plug and Play (PnP) stems from computer and Internet concept. This article bases on "Universal Plug and Play (UPnP)" concept, to build automatic identifying, automatic accessing mechanisms or system architecture in Smart Grid field, in order to realize automatic structuring for the secondary control system and information system, thus realize PnP and rapid restructure for the Smart Grid System, which bases on Smart Grid Dispatch and Control System.

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to create new ideas for assistive technology products at home, especially products utilizing robotic consumer appliances available in the homes of elderly people. The work was founded on a reported increase in household robots as well as an ageing population in the industrialized world. Design/methodology/approach – Technology should be something that is perceived as belonging to our own world that fits our daily practices. Earlier studies show that in addition to cleaning functions, new household robots could change home routines and people's relationship to them. Taking the previous studies as a starting point, the paper proposes a vacuum cleaner robot as a platform for developing pervasive safety services and describe implementation of a conceptual prototype which brings the feeling of safety to an older person and their relatives by assisting in case of accidents. Moreover, the results are presented of an empirical evaluation of the prototype with end-users. Findings – It is proved that reasonably priced off-the-shelf components can be used to build the safety product demonstration model. The initial evaluation results, as well as referenced studies show that the acceptance rate of a household robot-based product is high, which is encouraging for further research in this domain. Also the paper could pinpoint areas that will require further work. Research limitations/implications – To add more practicality to the research and move towards product development, a strong industrial partner involved in household robotics would be needed. For increased reliability and robustness, more research is required in areas of advanced sensing technology and decision algorithms. Originality/value – A novel concept of a safety product for elderly care based on a vacuum cleaner robot is presented and an attempt is made to increase awareness that there will be a demand for such products.

With so many potentially interconnected electronic devices in today’s homes, manufacturers have to think of theirs as only one of the components involved in a general user experience, and not as an isolated device. Users are likely to be using several devices at the same time, either actively through immediate interaction, or passively by expecting devices to give them notifications when necessary, for example. Thus, having cross-devices functionalities is often necessary for a product to be really adapted to its usage situation. Moreover, just as we install software on computers, smartphones and tablets for additional functionalities to use their own hardware, it would be logical to install cross-devices software to use the combined hardware of several home devices for a better user experience. However, even though a number of technologies can be used to transmit data or commands between devices, UPnP being a widespread example, it is not possible to access the behavior of remote devices and add functionalities to them this way. Thus, when manufacturers design their products, there is no way for them to make full use of the other appliances at the user’s home without developing and deploying specific software on each of them. In order to address this issue, this paper discusses a platform for generic development and on-the-fly deployment of applications on home devices. This system aims at letting device vendors deploy innovative features across devices in a home network, without requiring prior knowledge or control over devices already present in the user’s environment. For this platform to be fit for consumer devices, it is designed to be cost-effective, use recent and widespread technologies, and be fast to implement and work with.

This paper designs a smart antenna system for the connective vehicle infotainment. It provides a whole software solution for the Vehicle Head Unit independent with OS system. It includes worldwide analog and digital radio and TV, full radio stacks, FM to DAB on web radio seamlessly, vehicle networking management. This paper is to define the interface between the smart antenna module and the Head Unit. The physical link between the smart antenna and the Head Unit is Ethernet, the interface is based on several protocols based on IP protocol such as UPnP, HTTP to receive a radio signal and use it. Thanks to the open source structures and integrating all the radio stacks, this system is much easier for OEM vehicle companies and Tier one suppliers to adopt the smart antenna into the infotainment Head Unit. It saves them a lot of developing time and cost.

According to the recent advancement of wired and wireless communication network technology such as mobile communication and high-speed Internet, home network service based on Internet information appliance makes great strides. Particularly, the UPnP based technology that guarantees QoS for heterogeneous devices is now applied to the development of various home network services, on the other hand, is very difficult for individual user to find any service of appliance they need and it would take a lot of time. Hence, this paper defines a new paradigm as Electronic as a Service using cloud computing for next-generation ubiquitous network environments and propose new U-City home network architecture. The system shows that ubiquitous services can be provided to users effectively in a Home network environment. The performance of the developed proposed system is observed by measuring the data processing time. The system shows that ubiquitous services can be provided to users effectively in a Home network environment.

Many researches and standardizations have been done for controlling and managing home networks and appliances during past ten years. Such activities and technologies include the Universal Plug and Play (UPnP)/Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA), the Energy Conservation and Homecare Network (ECHONET), and the Continua Health Alliance. Such technologies control and manage specific home appliances. However, there have been no technologies and standards for controlling and managing heterogeneous home appliances in a consolidated manner. In addition, there are no standards that fully define technologies for controlling and managing home appliances outside home from mobile phones and cloud servers. In addition to the Internet, new networks such as home networks and sensor networks are emerging. Overlay networking is one of the most suitable technologies for communications among home appliances, home gateways (HGWs), mobile phones, and cloud servers over such heterogeneous networks. Metadata is also an important technology for describing various home appliances in a consistent manner. We have designed overlay networking protocols and metadata for controlling and managing heterogeneous home appliances. Peer-to-Peer Universal Computing Consortium (PUCC) was established to deploy our overlay networking and metadata technologies toward de facto standardization. We explain PUCC overlay networking technologies, and their application to home appliances control from a mobile phone, and describe PUCC activities.

This article describes the UPnP architecture and gives a brief analysis of UPnP protocol stack structure, as well as the application of UPnP in media sharing system. Then the article proposes a media sharing system design scheme based on the CyberLink for java package.

The network interface is the key position in an intelligent sensor system to realize plug and play. Based on UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) and IEEE 1451serie standards, an IEEE 1451/UPnP bridge is designed to solve the differences of message formats, self-identification description, and device discovery between these two standards. Using UPnP device selection method based on information axiom, the calculation of parameters information is distributed to each NCAP (Network Capable Application Processor) that meeting the service request. The test results indicate that this method simplifies the service discovery process, reduces network interface data traffic overhead, and increases UPnP device service efficiency.

The field of intelligent building includes a variety of systems with high level of heterogeneity. Recent advancements in sensor technologies and industrial electronics have increased the growth of heterogeneous systems in building environment. Many of these heterogeneous systems are disparate and not intended to perform mutual interoperation. Hence, it is rather difficult to execute interoperation especially in achieving desired services preferred by building owners and occupants. Complexity of interoperation is one the main reason for ambiguity in interoperability among heterogeneous systems in intelligent building. In intelligent building, an unrestricted joint execution of tasks between heterogeneous systems is essential to offer services that meet the building occupants’ requirements. In this paper, we present an Event-Condition-Action (ECA) based interoperability framework for intelligent building management by providing decision support ability among heterogeneous systems. The framework is interwoven with Web Services to provide unified integration among heterogeneous systems. The framework has been implemented with several systems to demonstrate their efficiency for joint interoperation. The framework was tested in Ethernet environment and proved to be reliable in intelligent building setting.

The Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) network provides features for using digital devices easily without configuration. But, there are some issues such as cross network segment and security in the UPnP networks. To solve the problem, many works use an additional proxy server and a recommendation system to provide suitable services. However, the approach requires additional resources and cost and it is difficult to deploy in the digital home. In this work, we propose a new concept which the profile was portable and within user’s personal digital device. The digital device can use the profile and information such as identification, time, location, etc. to find suitable devices and simplify the operation for resource access and increase privacy. Finally, we implement the portable-profile on android phone to achieve the concept.

The use of message-oriented middleware (MOM) in pervasive systems has increased noticeably because of its flexible and failure-tolerant nature. Meanwhile, decentralized service management protocols such as UPnP are believed to be more suitable for administrating applications in small-scale pervasive environments such as smart homes. However, administering MOM-based pervasive systems by UPnP often suffers from network flood problems due to the replications of too many unnecessary messages. This paper presents several traffic reduction schemes, namely, decomposing the multicast traffic, service-based node searching, heartbeat by decomposing the multicast traffic, and on-demand heartbeat, which reduce the replications of unnecessary messages in MOM-based UPnP networks. The analytical predictions agree well with the simulated and experimental results, which show that the message counts of presence and leave announcements, node searching, and heartbeat can be greatly reduced.

The current UPnP service discovery algorithm in the presence of the service can cause severe drops in the digital home network. The reason is that the root devices instantly send delay sending response messages and randomly select independent response message congestion through simulation analysis. To solve these problems, an improved UPnP service discovery algorithm was given. Considering the length of the message and the bandwidth of the router, it is derived by testing the router and the packet loss rate can be reduced.

Mobile Adhoc Network (MANET) is network of a no. of mobile routers and associated hosts, organized in a random fashion via wireless link. MANET has been widely used for not only military purposes but for search-andrescue operations, intelligent transportation system, data collection, virtual classrooms and ubiquitous computing. There are various Issues in MANET like Routing, MAC Layer issues, Transport protocol, QoS, Data Mgt. And Security etc. from them Service Discovery is one of the most important issues in MANET. Service discovery technologies are exploited to enable services to advertise their existence in a dynamic way, and can be discovered, configured and used by other devices with a minimum of manual efforts. Most of the service discovery protocols such as DEAPspace, UPnP, Konark, Salutation, Jini, and SLP. These protocols don’t provide an appropriate route from consumer to service provider. Hence after services are discovered, a route request needs to be initiated in order to access the service. In this paper proposing an efficient, robust and flexible approach to service discovery for MANET that not only discovers a service provider, but at the same time, it also provides a route to access the service.

Despite the large number of electronic devices that coexist in homes, only a few of them can be easily integrated in the same network. Given that smart home applications are based on the integration of many heterogeneous devices in the same network, the lack of interoperability can become a major issue in the development of advanced services. In this paper we tackle this issue developing an adapter to integrate the service robot Rovio into a smart home by means of Universal Plug and Play (UPnP). Different advanced services are designed to explore the possibilities derived from the integration of service robots in the smart home.

The concept of smart homes (SH) has been extensively popularized, and there are a lot of technologies that need to be continuously utilized and integrated in such a concept. In this article, some applied problems of camera array (CA) in the SH are discussed and solved. Determining how to build an effective management method for CA in order to ensure that user privacy is not encroached upon is an important issue. In SH, the applications of CA are very diversified. We suggest that a satisfactory management method of CA should be based on the open service gateway initiative (OSGi) that includes resource management and monitoring (RMM) and UPnP security for the problems of resources and privacy, respectively. Finally, an applied example of CA is addressed in an elder-care center (EC). Simulation results show that the management strategy and application of CA based on an OSGi is satisfactory.

Security has become a critical concern in pervasive environments, since personal information can be available to malicious users. In this context, some of the major drawbacks in UPnP architecture are the user authentication and service access control, which are not suitable for pervasive environments. Moreover, the inherited heterogeneity of pervasive environments brings different security and privacy requirement concerns depending on the environment and the services provided. This paper introduces a UPnP extension that not only allows multilevel user authentication for pervasive UPnP services, but also provides a flexible security approach that adapts to the network. What is more, it offers a seamless security level negotiation protocol1.

The Development of the computer has been from a single machine to the server, and then server clustering technology, and the emerging "cloud" network, which invariably show the network's role in the computer. Meanwhile, more and more high-end hardware trash or the users may be unbearable of high cost of servers, so the use of existing resources and integration of resources has become increasingly important. This paper will detail a virtual network file system, which based on Upnp (Universal Plug and Play) and FUSE (File system in Usese Space) in Linux operating system. In this study, users can share a computer terminal to collect and use that particular computer terminal on the network to all the resources users are interested in, provided that the shared computer terminals must be installed on a specific Upnp device. In this study, we have successfully implemented single-device-side and single-device-side multithread communication under the Linux or windows operating system.

In this paper, we propose a universal plug and play (UPnP) — controller area network (CAN) gateway system using UPnP middleware for interoperability between external smart devices and an in-vehicle network. The proposed gateway consists of a UPnP communication device, a CAN communication device, and a device translator layer. In-vehicle devices are not usually IP-based, so we implemented an in-vehicle device manager in the UPnP communication device which is in the gateway. We developed a vehicle simulator to produce real vehicular data for performance analysis. The CAN communication device transmits and receives real-time vehicle data between the real vehicular simulator and external devices through the UPnP. The device translator layer configures a message frame for enabling seamless data input and output between the CAN and UPnP protocols. After implementation, we generated an internal-external service request and tested the result. Finally, we confirmed the service request and operation between external devices and the internal vehicular device. Additionally, for a variety of external device numbers and communication environments, we demonstrated the gateway performance by measuring the round trip time (RTT) for overall service implementation.

The lack of interoperability is one of most important problems in the smart home. As a consequence, the integration of heterogeneous devices into the same system is a very difficult task which usually requires ad hoc solutions. For this reason, different interoperability standards have been proposed during the last two decades. In this paper we use a novel interoperability protocol: Digital Home Compliant (DHC) which is focused on the solution of the interoperability problem between domotic and robotic devices. In particular, we have implemented the DHC-Groups module in a Roomba which allows a robot group (hive) to perform collaborative tasks. Finally, an experiment is shown in order to test the DHC-Groups module and show its possibilities.

The power grid is undergoing a revolution and modernization through integrating information and communication technologies with the power system and also installing new electricity system technologies. Distributed controls in a certain self-reliant power-service area are critical means to modernize the power system to be the Smart Grid. Since the self-reliant area is assumed to perform physical and/or expert-engineered operations that should be integrated, monitored and controlled by a computational cyber system, the area is one area where the cyber and physical systems interact together, and home in the Smart Grid is one example for the area. In this paper, we propose a home energy management system (HEMS) to realize full automation combining computational and physical systems in a home area, which excludes operator-based control and management. The proposed system is designed to be built on the Universal Plug-and-Play architecture, and it can be accessed remotely over the Internet via mobile applications that work in Apple iPhone. Based on the design, we actually implemented the HEMS and constructed an empirical testbed that consists of networked personal computers, home appliances, and portable wireless devices. With the empirical testbed, we verified the monitoring and controlling functions of the HEMS. Additionally we carried out an extensive simulation study with the measured data of power consumption and the collected data of power price in order to see the effectiveness of the proposed HEMS. We also discuss about some limitations and challenges that we have encountered in designing and implementing the HEMS.