Design of a digital home service delivery and management system for OSGi framework

Abstract

Digital home services have been provided separately by each service provider who has a closed service delivery infrastructure for delivering home services. Because of this, 3rd party service providers who do not have the infrastructure to deploy home services have difficulties in participating in the home network market. Also, it is difficult for 3rd party service providers to provide a control-device-specific graphic user interface to service users due to the limitation of home gateway resources. In order to solve these problems, we propose a digital home service delivery and management system for small business companies that need to provide various home services to users. Also, this system supports functions for providing a user friendly graphic user interfaces dedicated to mobile device. By using the proposed system, the service aggregator can lead the competition of 3rd party service providers in the home network service market, and help it grow rapidly. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.