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The smart home environment is highly occupied with many heterogeneous systems that need to interoperate and perform their tasks efficiently. Although there is significant growth of services, applications and devices in smart home environment, the interoperability factor seems still elusive. This is due to the nature of smart home as distributed entity that needs certain degree of interoperability and joint execution of tasks for managing heterogeneous systems with multiple platforms. Often, these heterogeneous systems are developed in isolation and consist of various operating systems, different programming platform and different tier of services. There is need for a bespoke mechanism that could make the heterogeneous systems ‘talk’ each other and interoperate in a federated manner regardless of operating platform. Web Services seems to be state-of-the art technology that could solve the problem by providing greater interoperability. In this chapter we describe interoperability problems that need to be considered and we present a solution based on SOAP technology in providing interoperability for heterogeneous systems in smart home environment.
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Perumal, T., Ramli, A.R., Leong, C.Y., Samsudin, K., Mansor, S. (2010). Interoperability Among Heterogeneous Systems in Smart Home Environment. In: Web-Based Information Technologies and Distributed Systems. Atlantis Ambient and Pervasive Intelligence, vol 2. Atlantis Press. https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-91216-32-9_7
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