System software for audio and visual networked home appliances on commodity operating systems

Tatsuo Nakajima*

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Abstract

This paper reports our ongoing project to build system softwarefor audio and visual networked home appliances. In our system, we have implemented two middleware components for making it easy to build future networked home appliances. The first component is distributed home computing middleware that provides high level abstraction to control respective home appliances. The second component is a user interface middleware that enables us to control home appliances from a variety of interaction devices. Most of our system have been implemented in Java, but several timing critical programs have been implemented in the C language, which runs on Linux. The combination of Linux and Java will be ubiquitous in future embedded systems. They enable us to port home computing programs developed on PC to target systems without modifying them, and Java’s language supports enable us to build complex middleware very easily. Also, our user interface middleware enables us to adopt traditional user interface toolkits to develop home computing applications, but it allows us to use a variety of interaction devices to navigate graphical user interface provided by the applications.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMiddleware 2001
Subtitle of host publicationIFIP/ACM International Conference on Distributed Systems Platforms, Proceedings
EditorsRachid Guerraoui
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages273-294
Number of pages22
ISBN (Print)3540428003, 9783540428008
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2001
EventIFIP/ACM International Conference on Distributed Systems Platforms, Middleware 2001 - Heidelberg, Germany
Duration: 2001 Nov 122001 Nov 16

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume2218
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Other

OtherIFIP/ACM International Conference on Distributed Systems Platforms, Middleware 2001
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityHeidelberg
Period01/11/1201/11/16

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Computer Science(all)

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