The IEEE Wireless Standards as an Infrastructure of Smart Home Network

Abstract

Home environment management systems, also known as smart home systems, become more and more popular subject in recent days. Such systems can be a support for elder or handicapped people as well as can save energy and decrease pollution emission. Although dedicated systems have been already presented on the market they are rather expensive and require major interference in existing building infrastructure. Therefore easy to use solutions are strongly demanded by modern home owners. The paper presents general requirements that should be fulfilled by the network of a smart home system and discusses some aspects of the application of wireless networks for that purpose. The main attention is put on the network operation on the level of the physical layer. The simulation and measurement results are also presented in order to evaluate usefulness of the proposed wireless approach.