Universal Plug And Play Devices Research Articles

Appliance Recognition Unit for Home Energy Management System With UPnP Network

Appliance recognition by a home energy management system (HEMS) is a principal challenge in the area of future smart and home grid systems, particularly for electrical power load balancing. In this paper, a novel HEMS is proposed, with a smart socket outlet that is capable of appliance recognition for interworking with a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) network. The proposed method of appliance recognition, which is based on a Pearson correlation and a weighted cosine similarity technique, significantly increases the accuracy of the recognition degree in a real experimental environment. It also requires much less computing power and recognition time for appliance identification in comparison with various conventional methods based on complex artificial intelligence and machine learning schemes. The proposed system also generates a virtual UPnP device interface for the recognized appliance to be exposed to the UPnP network. Thus, any appliance plugged into the smart socket outlet can utilize the features of the UPnP network even if it does not support UPnP functionalities. The proposed system is demonstrated by implementing a simple and fast appliance recognition unit and a virtual UPnP device generation unit. The experimental results show the feasibility of appliance recognition and the capability of virtual UPnP device generation having superior performance when compared with conventional methods.

Intelligent Sensor System UPnP Networks Interface and Device Selection Realization

The network interface is the key position in an intelligent sensor system to realize plug and play. Based on UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) and IEEE 1451serie standards, an IEEE 1451/UPnP bridge is designed to solve the differences of message formats, self-identification description, and device discovery between these two standards. Using UPnP device selection method based on information axiom, the calculation of parameters information is distributed to each NCAP (Network Capable Application Processor) that meeting the service request. The test results indicate that this method simplifies the service discovery process, reduces network interface data traffic overhead, and increases UPnP device service efficiency.

Design and implementation of a UPnP-can gateway for automotive environments

In this paper, we propose a universal plug and play (UPnP) — controller area network (CAN) gateway system using UPnP middleware for interoperability between external smart devices and an in-vehicle network. The proposed gateway consists of a UPnP communication device, a CAN communication device, and a device translator layer. In-vehicle devices are not usually IP-based, so we implemented an in-vehicle device manager in the UPnP communication device which is in the gateway. We developed a vehicle simulator to produce real vehicular data for performance analysis. The CAN communication device transmits and receives real-time vehicle data between the real vehicular simulator and external devices through the UPnP. The device translator layer configures a message frame for enabling seamless data input and output between the CAN and UPnP protocols. After implementation, we generated an internal-external service request and tested the result. Finally, we confirmed the service request and operation between external devices and the internal vehicular device. Additionally, for a variety of external device numbers and communication environments, we demonstrated the gateway performance by measuring the round trip time (RTT) for overall service implementation.

Modeling and Analysis for Universal Plug and Play Using PIPE2

Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) allows devices automatic discovery and control of services available in those devices connected to a Transmission Control Protocol/ Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) network. Although many products are designed using UPnP, little attention has been given to UPnP related to modeling and performance analysis. This paper uses a framework of Generalized Stochastic Petri Net (GSPN) to model and analyze the behavior of UPnP systems. The framework includes modeling UPnP, reachability decomposition, GSPN analysis, and reward assignment. Then, the Platform Independent Petri net Editor 2 (PIPE2) tool is used to model and evaluate the controllers in terms of power consumption, system utilization and network throughput. Through quantitative analysis, the steady states in the operation and notification stage dominate the system performance, and the control point is better than the device in power consumption but the device outperforms the control point in evaluating utilization. The framework and numerical results are useful to improve the quality of services provided in UPnP devices.

A UPnP extension for enabling user authentication and authorization in pervasive systems

Abstract The Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) specification defines a set of protocols for promoting pervasive network connectivity of computers and intelligent devices or appliances. Nowadays, the UPnP technology is becoming popular due to its robustness to connect devices and the large number of developed applications. One of the major drawbacks of UPnP is the lack of user authentication and authorization mechanisms. Thus, control points, those devices acting as clients on behalf of a user, and UPnP devices cannot communicate based on user information. This paper introduces an extension of the UPnP specification called UPnP-UP, which allows user authentication and authorization mechanisms for UPnP devices and applications. These mechanisms provide the basis to develop customized and secure UPnP pervasive services, maintaining backward compatibility with previous versions of UPnP.

UPnP IPv4/IPv6 bridge for home networking environment

The purposes of universal plug and play (UPnP) are to allow consumer electronics, intelligent appliances (IA) and mobile devices from different vendors to be Internet connected seamlessly and installed easily at home. Also, as the IPv6 environment becomes inevitable, IPv6 ready IA are more and more popular. However, the fact is that IPv4 UPnP control points cannot communicate with IPv6 UPnP devices or vice versa. In this paper, we proposed an UPnP IPv4/IPv6 bridge for control points and devices can interoperate between IPv4 and IPv6 protocols; that is, they can communicate with each other although some of them support only IPv4 and others support IPv6.

ON THE USE OF SERVICE ORIENTED SOFTWARE PLATFORMS FOR INDUSTRIAL ROBOTIC CELLS

The integration of different robot automation technologies, with the aim for reusing available production solutions, is a major obstacle for deployment of low-cost components into productive (high-performance) systems. Technologies demanding high processing power, like machine vision or voice recognition systems, are normally easy to program but require proprietary languages and platforms, which constitutes an important problem during communications and setup. Instead of the current need for trained specialist, in particular flexible manufacturing in SMEs call for solutions that are easy easy to use and (re)configure. One attempt in that direction is the service-oriented architecture (SOA) approach, which here is accomplished by the use of Universal Plug-and-Play (UPnP) technologies and confronted with real robot application demand represented by an experimental manufacturing cell. Contributions include the way of building software applications to program manufacturing cells whose building blocks are represented by UPnP devices. Such devices encapsulate both manufacturing equipment and interaction methods. The latter is exemplified by a speech recognition system, for which a tool for automatic generation of UPnP devices based on the information contained in speech recognition XML grammars is presented. Experiences form experiments confirms the desired efficiency and simplicity when setting up advanced manufacturing equipment.