WHAT IT TAKES TO MAKE A REFRIGERATOR SMART - A CASE STUDY

摘要

Smart devices have gained increasing importance and are meanwhile also being considered in a residential environment. For the design of such devices, cost efficiency plays an important role, although the actual demand of hard- and software resources is very difficult to determine in advance. This paper analyses the implementation effort needed for an intelligent, networked refrigerator. It gives an overview of the enhanced functionality as well as the overall usage of resources and their distribution among the different tasks. The network selected for the case study was the European Installation Bus.