The development of a modular type platform for home network service

摘要

We discuss about the main platform for smart home services. To make a smart space, we need to integrate scattered hardware (Set-top box, Modem etc) with a platform, according to each service independently. In this paper, we present a modular type platform prototype of power efficient, small size, low cost and high performance to meet the requirement for the 3-services (Internet Protocol Television, Fixed Mobile Convergence and Healthcare). This platform is called modular type platform because it has flexibility to support each service, depend on the selected hardware module. Our Platform is equipped with ARM Cortex-A8 processor (AM3894) and different types of interfacing facilities. This platform has PCI-Express, SATA, SPI, McASP, SD/SDIO, GPMC, GPIO, I2C, HDMI, USB, UART, EMAC interfaces. Android (Gingerbread) is used as operating system for the platform. Though the presented platform is designed for 3-services, it can be expanded and applied to another services.