Controlling non IP bluetooth devices in UPnP home network

Abstract

UPnP is a home network middleware to controls home networks that are composed of computers and various elecuonic appliances. UPnP is a popular middleware because of easy building a home network based on IP networking. Bluetooth is the standard of a short-range radio link technology intended to replace the cable connecting portable electronic devices. Nowadays, various electronic devices with bluetooth interface are emerging, and there are demands for these devices to participate in a home network. But small bluetooth devices' have too insufficient memory and low power to contain HTTP over TCP/IP, it's dificult for small bluetooth devices to participate a UPnP home network. Therefore, UPnP has some troubles controlling non-1P devices such as small bluetooth devices. This paper presents a UPnP-Bluetooth proxy server to assist the non-1P bluetooth,devices lo be connected and controlled on UPnP home networks. The UPnP-Bluetooth proxy server generates UPnP description documents of bluetooth devices and assists those to be collabrated.