The home network is a major concern for the growth of digital and information society. Yet, how to guarantee the security of its digital content and protect the legal benefits for each section of the value chain becom...The home network is a major concern for the growth of digital and information society. Yet, how to guarantee the security of its digital content and protect the legal benefits for each section of the value chain becomes a crucial "bottleneck" in the home network development. The Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology provides total solution for usage, storage, transfer, and tracing the digital contents and rights. Its basic features are systematic and controllability. Considering the growth of the new media and services and the requirements of the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) protection in a home network, it's necessary to solve consistency problems in usage, storage, and transfer of contents and rights. In addition, it is inevitable to conduct researches of key techniques such as end-to-end secure transmission, conditional access and play, and right description.展开更多
As an important branch of telecommunication technology, digital home networks have quickly developed in recent years. Although architecture of the digital home network based on telecommunication networks has been stan...As an important branch of telecommunication technology, digital home networks have quickly developed in recent years. Although architecture of the digital home network based on telecommunication networks has been standardized in China, only wireless access is defined to be allowable. Therefore, it becomes the focus of further research how to establish a wireless digital home network. This article proposes the concept and shows the architecture of ubiquitous access for wireless digital home networks. Moreover, key technologies for ubiquitous access are discussed here, including cognitive radio, the concept of wireless Mesh, generic link transfer mechanism, Quality of Service (QoS) guarantee mechanism, Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) and coexistence of heterogeneous systems.展开更多
An effective approach to improve healthcare quality is to provide Point-of-care (POC) service through a telecare system. A Body Area Network (BAN) consists of a variety of body sensors. In a telecare system the BAN ca...An effective approach to improve healthcare quality is to provide Point-of-care (POC) service through a telecare system. A Body Area Network (BAN) consists of a variety of body sensors. In a telecare system the BAN can provide a network environment that allows timely collection of information and POC service, which gives significant new meaning to a home network. Through the BAN, a home network is able to promptly and effectively collect monitoring information for a telecare system, and to preview monitored medical data in advance. Should a problem arise, it can immediately notify other family members to provide relieve to the sick.展开更多
This paper presents a system to alert of dangerous a child situation of a child by applying context information collected from a home network to ontology that is capable of inference. Radio frequency Identification (R...This paper presents a system to alert of dangerous a child situation of a child by applying context information collected from a home network to ontology that is capable of inference. Radio frequency Identification (RFID) and sensors were used for the configuration of a home network, to obtain the raw data to convert into context information. To express the ontology, web ontology language (OWL) was used to provide the inference of context information. Then, simple object access protocol (SOAP) messages were used to notify of the dangerous situations that a child may be involved in via mobile devices. The proposed system consists of Context Manager, Service Manager, and Notification Manager. The child’s safety management system can proactively detect the context data of a child on the basis of context awareness. In the experiment, the Jena 2.0 by ontology reasoner and the OSGi(Open Service Gateway initiative) Gateway developed using open source software Knopflerfish 1.3.3 were used to implement the service frame work.展开更多
Existing home devices in home network provides only independent services limited on a homogeneous protocol and/or do not fully support an intelligent service provided by cooperating among heterogeneous protocol device...Existing home devices in home network provides only independent services limited on a homogeneous protocol and/or do not fully support an intelligent service provided by cooperating among heterogeneous protocol devices. This paper proposes an intelligent and integrated service binding architecture which allow the users to figure out the status of devices and to cooperate among home network devices regardless of supported protocols or operational characteristics.展开更多
As the smart home is the end-point power consumer, it is the major part to be controlled in a smart micro grid. There are so many challenges for implementing a smart home system in which the most important ones are th...As the smart home is the end-point power consumer, it is the major part to be controlled in a smart micro grid. There are so many challenges for implementing a smart home system in which the most important ones are the cost and simplicity of the implementation method. It is clear that the major share of the total cost is referred to the internal controlling system network; although there are too many methods proposed but still there is not any satisfying method at the consumers＇ point of view. In this paper, a novel solution for this demand is proposed, which not only minimizes the implementation cost, but also provides a high level of reliability and simplicity of operation; feasibility, extendibility, and flexibility are other leading properties of the design.展开更多
Objective:To understand the healthcare needs of disabled oncology patients,explore the impact of home network hospital-based health education on disabled oncology patients’healthcare needs,activity of daily living(AD...Objective:To understand the healthcare needs of disabled oncology patients,explore the impact of home network hospital-based health education on disabled oncology patients’healthcare needs,activity of daily living(ADL)scores,quality of survival,and caregiver burden,and to provide a reference basis for the effective implementation of health education for disabled oncology patients in the home and the improvement of their quality of life.Methods:From May 2021 to May 2024,112 patients with ADL Scale scores<60 who were hospitalized in 7 tertiary-level hospitals in Guangdong Province were selected for the questionnaire survey and implementation of the intervention analysis.The 112 study subjects chosen were randomly divided into 56 in the intervention group and 56 in the control group.The patients in the control group were discharged from the hospital and followed up once a month by telephone,health education,and disease rehabilitation guidance.The intervention group constructed a home network hospital on a routine basis,utilized the micro letter public number and APP applet intervention guidance for 6 consecutive months,and used the general information questionnaire,Barthel index,SF-36 quality of life scale(the Medical Outcomes Study item short-form health survey,SF-36),the caregiver’s quality of life scale(the SF-36),and the Caregiver Burden Scale ZBL(Zarit Burden Interview,ZBI),to investigate the number of care needs,quality of life,and the degree of caregiving burden of the 2 groups of patients.Results:The quality of survival of all patients with disabling tumors was poor.Patients with moderate to severe dependence on ADL were not only impaired in physiological dimensions but also had varying degrees of reduction in psychological dimensions,with the lowest scores in physiological functioning and the highest scores in somatic pain.There was no statistically significant difference in the comparison of the general information and scores of patients in the 2 groups(P>0.05).After 3 months and 6 months of intervention,the difference in scores between the 2 groups was statistically significant(P<0.05),in which the SF-36 score of the intervention group was higher than that of the control group,and the ADL score was lower than that of the control group.There was a statistically significant difference in ADL and ZBI scores between the intervention and pre-intervention(P<0.05)groups.In the control group,after 3 months of intervention,ADL and ZBI scores were statistically different compared with pre-intervention(P<0.05);after 6 months of intervention,there was no statistical difference(P>0.05).Conclusions:Health education based on home network hospitals can reduce the healthcare needs of disabled oncology patients and meet their safety and physiological health guidance needs.The quality of life of disabled oncology patients is at the bottom level,the burden of family care is heavy,and the burden of care for the primary caregiver is heavy.At the root of the problem,there is a lack of scientific,effective,and practical interventions,which can be sorted by clarifying the patients’needs for home care and providing targeted nursing skills can improve the quality of life of the patients and reduce somatic discomfort.展开更多
Millimeter-wave(mmWave)technology has been well studied for both outdoor long-distance transmission and indoor short-range communication.In the recently emerging fiber-to-the-room(FTTR)architecture in the home network...Millimeter-wave(mmWave)technology has been well studied for both outdoor long-distance transmission and indoor short-range communication.In the recently emerging fiber-to-the-room(FTTR)architecture in the home network of the fifth generation fixed networks(F5G),mmWave technology can be cascaded well to a new optical network terminal in the room to enable extremely high data rate communication(i.e.,>10 Gb/s).In the FTTR+mmWave scenario,the rapid degradation of the mmWave signal in long-distance transmission and the significant loss against wall penetration are no longer the bottlenecks for real application.Moreover,the surrounding walls of every room provide excellent isolation to avoid interference and guarantee security.This paper provides insights and analysis for the new FTTR+mmWave architecture to improve the customer experience in future broadband services such as immersive audiovisual videos.展开更多
The Internet of things (IoT) can be used in our daily life. Home area network (HAN) is one of the applications of loT. However, deploying HAN for underdeveloped countries in Africa is not easy due to the lack of Inter...The Internet of things (IoT) can be used in our daily life. Home area network (HAN) is one of the applications of loT. However, deploying HAN for underdeveloped countries in Africa is not easy due to the lack of Internet connectivity and stable electricity. First of all, Internet in Africa is growing fast but the majority of countries in Africa have Internet penetration of less than 10%. Furthermore, the problem of accessing electricity varies greatly across African countries, which is still less than 30% of the average usage rate. The aim of this paper is to model a secure HAN based on IoT for resource constraints environment, which are focused on both network connectivity and energy stability. Poor connectivity, the prevalence of low-end devices and several other obstacles should be considered for the secure HAN deployment in developing and underdeveloped countries. The proposed HAN model will provide the resource constraints module composed of network connectivity function and energy stability function to support the two constraints based on the IoT basic module and the security and privacy module. The proposed HAN model could be securely applied to various countries HAN applications with poor electricity supply and network connectivity.展开更多
In the study of intelligent space oriented to home service robot, an important technology is how to construct an communication network which has the characters of high reliability and easy building. In this paper, bas...In the study of intelligent space oriented to home service robot, an important technology is how to construct an communication network which has the characters of high reliability and easy building. In this paper, based on the characteristics of ZigBee protocol, ZigBee technology is used to construct a wireless sensor and actor network. Several intelligent services based on ZigBee wireless sensor and actor network are shown to certify the reliability of this communication network. ZigBee wireless sensor and actor network builds an information bridge for the components in the intelligent space, the spatially distributed devices are connected together seamlessly. With this network, robot can share the mass information in the intelligent space and improve its performance with 'light-packs', devices in intelligent space, such as lamp, curtain can be controlled autonomously.展开更多
This paper is concerned with constructing a prototype intelligent home environment for home service robot. In this environment, multi-pattern information can be represented by some intelligent artificial marks. Light-...This paper is concerned with constructing a prototype intelligent home environment for home service robot. In this environment, multi-pattern information can be represented by some intelligent artificial marks. Light-packs service robots can provide reliable and intelligent service by interacting with the environment through the wireless sensor networks. The intelligent space consists the following main components: smart devices with intelligent artificial mark;home server that connects the smart device and maintains the information through wireless sensor network;and the service robot that perform tasks in collaboration with the environment. In this paper, the multi-pattern information model is built, the construction of wireless sensor networks is presented, the smart and agilely home service is introduced. Fi- nally, the future direction of intelligent space system is discussed.展开更多
With the emerging of sensor networks, research on sensor-based activity recognition has attracted much attention. Many existing methods cannot well deal with the cases that contain hundreds of sensors and their recogn...With the emerging of sensor networks, research on sensor-based activity recognition has attracted much attention. Many existing methods cannot well deal with the cases that contain hundreds of sensors and their recognition accuracy is requisite to be further improved. A novel framework for recognizing human activities in smart home was presented. First, small, easy-to-install, and low-cost state change sensors were adopted for recording state change or use of the objects. Then the Bayesian belief network (BBN) was applied to conducting activity recognition by modeling statistical dependencies between sensor data and human activity. An edge-encode genetic algorithm (EEGA) approach was proposed to resolve the difficulties in structure learning of the BBN model under a high dimension space and large data set. Finally, some experiments were made using one publicly available dataset. The experimental results show that the EEGA algorithm is effective and efficient in learning the BBN structure and outperforms the conventional approaches. By conducting human activity recognition based on the testing samples, the BBN is effective to conduct human activity recognition and outperforms the naive Bayesian network (NBN) and multiclass naive Bayes classifier (MNBC).展开更多
设计了一种基于Homeplug AV技术利用家用同轴电缆实现家庭HFC网的双向接入设备。介绍了整个系统的设计思路,并对Homeplug AV over Coax设备进行了测试,包括衰减、设备组网、网络节点、传输帧的大小对整个系统的吞吐量、延时的影响,得出...设计了一种基于Homeplug AV技术利用家用同轴电缆实现家庭HFC网的双向接入设备。介绍了整个系统的设计思路,并对Homeplug AV over Coax设备进行了测试,包括衰减、设备组网、网络节点、传输帧的大小对整个系统的吞吐量、延时的影响,得出其性能要比电力线上用好得多,并对Homeplug AV over Coax的应用前景作了分析。展开更多
The prevalence of information appliances supporting DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) such as televisions, recorders, and mobile phones has made it possible to share digital contents (e.g. videos, music and pictu...The prevalence of information appliances supporting DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) such as televisions, recorders, and mobile phones has made it possible to share digital contents (e.g. videos, music and pictures) among appliances connected to a local network. However, DLNA does not let you share contents over different networks via the Internet. In this paper, we propose a network architecture where we adopt our SOAP method to mobile devices and use them as mobile gateways to consume digital contents from remote networks. We also confirm its practicality with a prototype.展开更多
Smart home is a promising solution to improving the quality of people＇s life. Much work has been done in the field, but most of these solutions are just based on home gateway, leaving much to be improved. One of its ...Smart home is a promising solution to improving the quality of people＇s life. Much work has been done in the field, but most of these solutions are just based on home gateway, leaving much to be improved. One of its defects is the relatively high energy consuming and its radiation, and the other is that it is not available to the old home appliances which fail to access the internet. Full use of the low energy consuming characteristic of the Zigbee wireless sensor network, a completely new smart home solution is put forward in this paper. Without need of a home gateway and any modification for the currently used family appliances, the method uses the Zigbee coordinator as the central controller and the controllers of appliances as the end devices of Zigbee. It can realize a comfortable and smart home. Experiments show that the scheme proposed is feasible and it will be no doubt to be able to improve the quality of people＇s daily life.展开更多
基金China Next Generation Internet Project(No.CNGI-04-12-2A)
文摘The home network is a major concern for the growth of digital and information society. Yet, how to guarantee the security of its digital content and protect the legal benefits for each section of the value chain becomes a crucial "bottleneck" in the home network development. The Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology provides total solution for usage, storage, transfer, and tracing the digital contents and rights. Its basic features are systematic and controllability. Considering the growth of the new media and services and the requirements of the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) protection in a home network, it's necessary to solve consistency problems in usage, storage, and transfer of contents and rights. In addition, it is inevitable to conduct researches of key techniques such as end-to-end secure transmission, conditional access and play, and right description.
文摘As an important branch of telecommunication technology, digital home networks have quickly developed in recent years. Although architecture of the digital home network based on telecommunication networks has been standardized in China, only wireless access is defined to be allowable. Therefore, it becomes the focus of further research how to establish a wireless digital home network. This article proposes the concept and shows the architecture of ubiquitous access for wireless digital home networks. Moreover, key technologies for ubiquitous access are discussed here, including cognitive radio, the concept of wireless Mesh, generic link transfer mechanism, Quality of Service (QoS) guarantee mechanism, Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) and coexistence of heterogeneous systems.
文摘An effective approach to improve healthcare quality is to provide Point-of-care (POC) service through a telecare system. A Body Area Network (BAN) consists of a variety of body sensors. In a telecare system the BAN can provide a network environment that allows timely collection of information and POC service, which gives significant new meaning to a home network. Through the BAN, a home network is able to promptly and effectively collect monitoring information for a telecare system, and to preview monitored medical data in advance. Should a problem arise, it can immediately notify other family members to provide relieve to the sick.
基金This work is supported by the MIC( Ministry of Information and Communication) , Korea , under the ITRC(Information Technology Research Center) support program supervised by the IITA(Institute of Information Technology Assessment) (IITA-2005-C1090-0502-0031) .
文摘This paper presents a system to alert of dangerous a child situation of a child by applying context information collected from a home network to ontology that is capable of inference. Radio frequency Identification (RFID) and sensors were used for the configuration of a home network, to obtain the raw data to convert into context information. To express the ontology, web ontology language (OWL) was used to provide the inference of context information. Then, simple object access protocol (SOAP) messages were used to notify of the dangerous situations that a child may be involved in via mobile devices. The proposed system consists of Context Manager, Service Manager, and Notification Manager. The child’s safety management system can proactively detect the context data of a child on the basis of context awareness. In the experiment, the Jena 2.0 by ontology reasoner and the OSGi(Open Service Gateway initiative) Gateway developed using open source software Knopflerfish 1.3.3 were used to implement the service frame work.
基金This work is supported bythe MIC( Ministry of Information &Communication) , KOREA,the ITRC(Infor-mation Technology Research Center) support program supervised by the IITA (Institute of Information Technology Assessment)(IITA-2006-C1090-0603-0020) .
文摘Existing home devices in home network provides only independent services limited on a homogeneous protocol and/or do not fully support an intelligent service provided by cooperating among heterogeneous protocol devices. This paper proposes an intelligent and integrated service binding architecture which allow the users to figure out the status of devices and to cooperate among home network devices regardless of supported protocols or operational characteristics.
文摘As the smart home is the end-point power consumer, it is the major part to be controlled in a smart micro grid. There are so many challenges for implementing a smart home system in which the most important ones are the cost and simplicity of the implementation method. It is clear that the major share of the total cost is referred to the internal controlling system network; although there are too many methods proposed but still there is not any satisfying method at the consumers＇ point of view. In this paper, a novel solution for this demand is proposed, which not only minimizes the implementation cost, but also provides a high level of reliability and simplicity of operation; feasibility, extendibility, and flexibility are other leading properties of the design.
文摘Objective:To understand the healthcare needs of disabled oncology patients,explore the impact of home network hospital-based health education on disabled oncology patients’healthcare needs,activity of daily living(ADL)scores,quality of survival,and caregiver burden,and to provide a reference basis for the effective implementation of health education for disabled oncology patients in the home and the improvement of their quality of life.Methods:From May 2021 to May 2024,112 patients with ADL Scale scores<60 who were hospitalized in 7 tertiary-level hospitals in Guangdong Province were selected for the questionnaire survey and implementation of the intervention analysis.The 112 study subjects chosen were randomly divided into 56 in the intervention group and 56 in the control group.The patients in the control group were discharged from the hospital and followed up once a month by telephone,health education,and disease rehabilitation guidance.The intervention group constructed a home network hospital on a routine basis,utilized the micro letter public number and APP applet intervention guidance for 6 consecutive months,and used the general information questionnaire,Barthel index,SF-36 quality of life scale(the Medical Outcomes Study item short-form health survey,SF-36),the caregiver’s quality of life scale(the SF-36),and the Caregiver Burden Scale ZBL(Zarit Burden Interview,ZBI),to investigate the number of care needs,quality of life,and the degree of caregiving burden of the 2 groups of patients.Results:The quality of survival of all patients with disabling tumors was poor.Patients with moderate to severe dependence on ADL were not only impaired in physiological dimensions but also had varying degrees of reduction in psychological dimensions,with the lowest scores in physiological functioning and the highest scores in somatic pain.There was no statistically significant difference in the comparison of the general information and scores of patients in the 2 groups(P>0.05).After 3 months and 6 months of intervention,the difference in scores between the 2 groups was statistically significant(P<0.05),in which the SF-36 score of the intervention group was higher than that of the control group,and the ADL score was lower than that of the control group.There was a statistically significant difference in ADL and ZBI scores between the intervention and pre-intervention(P<0.05)groups.In the control group,after 3 months of intervention,ADL and ZBI scores were statistically different compared with pre-intervention(P<0.05);after 6 months of intervention,there was no statistical difference(P>0.05).Conclusions:Health education based on home network hospitals can reduce the healthcare needs of disabled oncology patients and meet their safety and physiological health guidance needs.The quality of life of disabled oncology patients is at the bottom level,the burden of family care is heavy,and the burden of care for the primary caregiver is heavy.At the root of the problem,there is a lack of scientific,effective,and practical interventions,which can be sorted by clarifying the patients’needs for home care and providing targeted nursing skills can improve the quality of life of the patients and reduce somatic discomfort.
文摘Millimeter-wave(mmWave)technology has been well studied for both outdoor long-distance transmission and indoor short-range communication.In the recently emerging fiber-to-the-room(FTTR)architecture in the home network of the fifth generation fixed networks(F5G),mmWave technology can be cascaded well to a new optical network terminal in the room to enable extremely high data rate communication(i.e.,>10 Gb/s).In the FTTR+mmWave scenario,the rapid degradation of the mmWave signal in long-distance transmission and the significant loss against wall penetration are no longer the bottlenecks for real application.Moreover,the surrounding walls of every room provide excellent isolation to avoid interference and guarantee security.This paper provides insights and analysis for the new FTTR+mmWave architecture to improve the customer experience in future broadband services such as immersive audiovisual videos.
文摘The Internet of things (IoT) can be used in our daily life. Home area network (HAN) is one of the applications of loT. However, deploying HAN for underdeveloped countries in Africa is not easy due to the lack of Internet connectivity and stable electricity. First of all, Internet in Africa is growing fast but the majority of countries in Africa have Internet penetration of less than 10%. Furthermore, the problem of accessing electricity varies greatly across African countries, which is still less than 30% of the average usage rate. The aim of this paper is to model a secure HAN based on IoT for resource constraints environment, which are focused on both network connectivity and energy stability. Poor connectivity, the prevalence of low-end devices and several other obstacles should be considered for the secure HAN deployment in developing and underdeveloped countries. The proposed HAN model will provide the resource constraints module composed of network connectivity function and energy stability function to support the two constraints based on the IoT basic module and the security and privacy module. The proposed HAN model could be securely applied to various countries HAN applications with poor electricity supply and network connectivity.
文摘In the study of intelligent space oriented to home service robot, an important technology is how to construct an communication network which has the characters of high reliability and easy building. In this paper, based on the characteristics of ZigBee protocol, ZigBee technology is used to construct a wireless sensor and actor network. Several intelligent services based on ZigBee wireless sensor and actor network are shown to certify the reliability of this communication network. ZigBee wireless sensor and actor network builds an information bridge for the components in the intelligent space, the spatially distributed devices are connected together seamlessly. With this network, robot can share the mass information in the intelligent space and improve its performance with 'light-packs', devices in intelligent space, such as lamp, curtain can be controlled autonomously.
文摘This paper is concerned with constructing a prototype intelligent home environment for home service robot. In this environment, multi-pattern information can be represented by some intelligent artificial marks. Light-packs service robots can provide reliable and intelligent service by interacting with the environment through the wireless sensor networks. The intelligent space consists the following main components: smart devices with intelligent artificial mark;home server that connects the smart device and maintains the information through wireless sensor network;and the service robot that perform tasks in collaboration with the environment. In this paper, the multi-pattern information model is built, the construction of wireless sensor networks is presented, the smart and agilely home service is introduced. Fi- nally, the future direction of intelligent space system is discussed.
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China(No. 70971021)
文摘With the emerging of sensor networks, research on sensor-based activity recognition has attracted much attention. Many existing methods cannot well deal with the cases that contain hundreds of sensors and their recognition accuracy is requisite to be further improved. A novel framework for recognizing human activities in smart home was presented. First, small, easy-to-install, and low-cost state change sensors were adopted for recording state change or use of the objects. Then the Bayesian belief network (BBN) was applied to conducting activity recognition by modeling statistical dependencies between sensor data and human activity. An edge-encode genetic algorithm (EEGA) approach was proposed to resolve the difficulties in structure learning of the BBN model under a high dimension space and large data set. Finally, some experiments were made using one publicly available dataset. The experimental results show that the EEGA algorithm is effective and efficient in learning the BBN structure and outperforms the conventional approaches. By conducting human activity recognition based on the testing samples, the BBN is effective to conduct human activity recognition and outperforms the naive Bayesian network (NBN) and multiclass naive Bayes classifier (MNBC).
文摘设计了一种基于Homeplug AV技术利用家用同轴电缆实现家庭HFC网的双向接入设备。介绍了整个系统的设计思路,并对Homeplug AV over Coax设备进行了测试,包括衰减、设备组网、网络节点、传输帧的大小对整个系统的吞吐量、延时的影响,得出其性能要比电力线上用好得多,并对Homeplug AV over Coax的应用前景作了分析。
文摘The prevalence of information appliances supporting DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) such as televisions, recorders, and mobile phones has made it possible to share digital contents (e.g. videos, music and pictures) among appliances connected to a local network. However, DLNA does not let you share contents over different networks via the Internet. In this paper, we propose a network architecture where we adopt our SOAP method to mobile devices and use them as mobile gateways to consume digital contents from remote networks. We also confirm its practicality with a prototype.
基金Project supported by the Shanghai Leading Academic Discipline Project (Grant No.J50103)the Innovation Project of Shanghai Universitythe Research Project of Excellent Young Talents in the Universities in Shanghai
文摘Smart home is a promising solution to improving the quality of people＇s life. Much work has been done in the field, but most of these solutions are just based on home gateway, leaving much to be improved. One of its defects is the relatively high energy consuming and its radiation, and the other is that it is not available to the old home appliances which fail to access the internet. Full use of the low energy consuming characteristic of the Zigbee wireless sensor network, a completely new smart home solution is put forward in this paper. Without need of a home gateway and any modification for the currently used family appliances, the method uses the Zigbee coordinator as the central controller and the controllers of appliances as the end devices of Zigbee. It can realize a comfortable and smart home. Experiments show that the scheme proposed is feasible and it will be no doubt to be able to improve the quality of people＇s daily life.
