Avaliação de estratégias de utilização de arcabouços abertos para a integração de serviços em redes residenciais

Abstract

The evolution of communication technologies has allowed the expansion in the use of communication networks and these have allowed alternatives and ways of information exchange that occurs between users and smart devices. A form of communication has been evident in several areas and of these, which is the focus of this thesis concerns the communication in home networks. The appliances are able to establish network communication, communication technologies are evolving and costs are reducing, enabling users to use home networking services. This thesis proposes the use of open source frameworks for developing applications, promoting benchmarking between these and the development of a prototype of a residential gateway, as a case study, which will focus home networking services, allowing their integration. The frameworks will be evaluated according to the application requirements of the case study, and the choice of programming platform. The Arduino is used to set the scene of the residential gateway and, because it is an open hardware platform, has shown satisfactory results.