Integration of Web Services with Mobile Home Automation

This study develops the web services that are applied in home automation via the Internet and operated by mobile portable devices. Related work, a service-oriented architecture (SOA) platform is developed. Mobile portable devices are acting as Service-Requestor. A home appliance server is acting as Service-Provider. We use Web Services Description Language (WSDL) to describe their binding. The Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) provides a simple and lightweight protocol for communicating between them. An example is described in this study that includes a General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) control platform to provide the home gateway function.