A home automation proposal built on the Ginga digital TV middleware and the OSGi framework

IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1254-1262

  de Lucena Jr , Vicente Ferreira ^a   Chaves Filho, João Edgar ^a   Viana, Nairon Saraiva ^a   Bentes Maia, Orlewilson ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF AMAZONAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Digital convergence; Digital TV middleware; Home automation; Home networking

Indexed keywords

BLUETOOTH TECHNOLOGY; CENTRAL PROCESSING UNITS; DIGITAL CONVERGENCE; DIGITAL TV; DIGITAL TV MIDDLEWARE; ELECTRONIC SENSORS; HOME AUTOMATION; HOME NETWORKING; HOME NETWORKS; INTEGRATION PROCESS; INTERACTIVE SOFTWARE; NETWORKED DEVICES; OPEN SERVICES GATEWAY INITIATIVES; OSGI FRAMEWORK; PROCESSING POWER; SERVICE MANAGEMENT;

AUTOMATION; CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; DIGITAL DEVICES; GATEWAYS (COMPUTER NETWORKS); INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; MIDDLEWARE; MOBILE DEVICES; PERSONAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; SENSORS; TELEVISION APPLICATIONS; TELEVISION BROADCASTING; TELEVISION SYSTEMS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

DIGITAL TELEVISION;

EID: 70350257960     PISSN: 00983063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCE.2009.5277985     Document Type: Article

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