open home automation infrastructure

Orange Open Home Automation Infrastructure Jean-Michel Ortholand, André Bottaro

Orange Labs

November, 24th, 2011

Orange Open Home Automation Infrastructure - J.M. Ortholand, A. Bottaro

Outline

1 – The Home Automation market is a new world of applications

2 – However, the Home Automation market just slowly emerges

3 – Orange proposes a technical & economical opportunity to Home actors

4 – Orange chooses OSGi technology and ProSyst and starts first experiments

5 – Challenges remain for the infrastructure to be open to 3rd party applications

6 – Open the box!

1 – The Home Automation market is a new world of applications


What is Orange Home Automation ?

A bunch of services and smart devices installed at home that allow

•  an always-on system that watches over your home and alerts you if something goes wrong (Serenity)

•  an easy management of actuators with well designed and rich interfaces (Comfort)

•  the optimisation of electricity and gas consumptions (Energy)


French case Consumers equipment perspectives


Home Automation and Smart Home

•  Other services can be met by the Home Automation infrastructure

•  Health: The care of elderly or handicapped people at home (Ambient Assisted Living)

•  Wellness: A coach at Home •  Multimedia : Content sharing

•  A new world of applications will emerge with the variety of sensors, actuators, and devices that become available


2 – The Home Automation market just slowly emerges


A slowly emerging market

•  The Smart Home Market is fragmented into niche markets •  Proprietary protocols, APIs and solutions •  Expensive solutions with a professional installation •  Numerous partnerships on vertical applications

⇒  Weak ecosystem structure ⇒  Weak infrastructure for sharing applications ⇒  Multiple standards = weak integration

electricity efficiency pilot

Security & energy monitoring with EPS

energy efficiency trial with alertme

Homescope, to see at home

Video-surveillance

Offer with iJenko

Smoke detection with Delta Dore

Energy@Home with Electrolux, Enel, Indesit

energy monitoring with remote on/off switch

Security

energy & security

demand response

Androïd@Home

Homes

Many service providers and solution integrators initiatives…

… and business actors that play both as service providers and product manufacturers

Heterogeneity of local networks communication protocols

Wired and powerline Communication Radio Communication

Low rate protocols

High rate protocols

Ethernet

DPWS IP application protocols


3 – Orange proposes a technical & economical opportunity to Home actors


Orange commitment : open the Home to the Internet …

Computer

TV Phone

Devices

Open for third-party devices

Open for third-party services


Opportunity : Catalyze the market through the share of a common technical infrastructure •  Leverage a common ICT infrastructure

•  Standard sensor networks •  Advanced Home Gateway or a box dedicated to home automation apps •  Remote Device/Network Management platform

•  To lower the barriers and make the market emerge •  Lower installation and maintenance costs of each service •  Go beyond quadruple play, accelerate service delivery •  Enlarge the Home Automation market

Operator platform

Remote HMIs Embedded software platform

hosting applications. Adv. Home gateway or dedicated box

application

Shared screens

Shared sensors

Shared infrastructure

3rd party platforms Home Application stores

Home Controller


4 – Orange chooses OSGi technology and ProSyst and starts first experiments


Home Controller

HOME DEVICES Activators, sensors

Third party(s)

application

Third party(s)

Information System

Third party local application

Access Platform

API

Specific Home controller : -  a multi-services / multi-partners java/OSGi running environment -  security, right management, isolation -  SDK to interact with Home AN Controller and devices -  Native ZigBee HA communication, extensible to other RF protocols

-  API to initiate interaction from the Cloud with Home Controllers and devices -  Security, right management -  No message transport

-  API to manage and to supervise Home Area Network

Orange open infrastructure

Management & supervision

Platform

API

Home Box


Software stack


OSGi and ProSyst

•  Sharing and isolation •  Java •  Embedded solution

•  Main provider for embedded OSGi •  Industrial approach (licensing,

standardization) •  HDM abstraction layer


5 – Challenges remain for the infrastructure to be open to 3rd party applications


An advanced state of the art, however incomplete Embedded service software platform Partial solution to be improved

Resource sharing and isolation on a common embedded software platform

OSGi is the technology reference on the market before .NET and Androïd but it addresses only code sharing and isolation

Robustness, adaptation to constrained devices, transactional guaranties

OSGi Micro Edition – specified by Orange and IS2T, maintained by IS2T – shows promises, however demands testing and tools.

Security – management of the access rights to applications, to hardware functions and to deployed sensors

Dynamic and distributed application programming, data mediation infrastructure

Device and software management platform and application shops

Partial solution to be improved

Modular validation of applications Tools are needed to bring guarantees before deployment

Openness of device management platforms and application shop tools to 3rd parties

Secure and scalable tools remain to be developed.

Modular application deployment and administration Protocols exist (TR-69) and need to be adapted and integrated.

Sensor network management Protocols (TR-69) need to be adapted and tested against concrete use cases based on new low rate sensor networks (ZigBee).

Hardware box platform and sensor networks Partial solution to be improved

Low power and low cost technology requirements

Technology interoperability The promise of ZigBee and IPv6 must be guaranteed.

Consistent integration of sensor network technologies on a hardware platform


6 – Open the box!


Orange and ProSyst ambition

Application designers (bundles & services)‏

Platform administrators & application stores

Techno providers (SW part of the platform) ‏

Hardware providers (HW part of the platform) ‏

•  Create a dynamic market of applications with Home players:

•  Standardize the infrastructure: OSGi, HGI, BBF, UPnP … and ZigBee

•  Keep in touch for the using of Orange APIs !


Thanks

Orange Open Home Automation Infrastructure Jean-Michel Ortholand, André Bottaro

Orange Labs

November, 24th, 2011

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