The increased mobility in peoples' work lives and the demand for effective mobile communication has brought a lot of personal computing with mobile electronic devices like notebooks, smart phones and PDAs and as a consequence thereof heterogeneous computing. Additionally, due to extensive automation the term "smart" home and building has grown increasingly popular over the last years. However, to establish effective communication between nodes of a home and building network and consumer electronic devices is often a hard to accomplish task that requires a lot of technical knowledge and maintenance effort. One technology that allows fundamentally different devices to communicate with each other without any set-up work or administrative effort by the user is called Universal Plug and Play (UPnP). The article gives an overview of its capabilities and presents a case study how to integrate devices of the European Installation Bus (EIB) into this environment.
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