Educational Aspects of Service Orientation: Smart Home Design issues and Technologies

In this paper efforts are made to review the state of art of service oriented technologies in smart home design. Services oriented software architecture for data exchanges and unit's integration with reusability is studied in this paper. The standards used in unit design for a smart home like “The Open Gateway Services Initiative” (OSGi) and “Universal Plug n Play” (UPnP) are reviewed in the paper. Secure web service messaging, discovery and eventing on resource-constraint devices are reviewed in the paper. In this paper efforts are made to address the issue of seamless integration between devices in the home using networking and service orientation.