REMOTE CONTROL SYSTEM OF WEB-BASED 3D SMART HOME

摘要

Since the concept of smart home was proposed, great progress has been achieved in this field. This paper introduces a new design for smart home which is based on 3D web technology. In this web-based 3D smart home, Flash 3D engine are used to create a remote virtual home in users' web browsers. Users are able to monitor and control their homes remotely in the virtual smart home in the web-based 3D virtual reality world using the mouse and keyboard. The 3D virtual homes and the real homes are synchronized through the Internet. To guarantee the synchronization among the web server, the web client and the home appliances, a four-layer communication structure is designed in the system. When users login the web client, they can "walk around" in the virtual home and get immersed in it similarly as they do in real homes rather than just clicking on the tags of the two-dimensional web pages. The layouts of the virtual 3D homes are customized according to the real dimension of their homes so that the users feel like they are wandering in their real homes. Due to the adoption of B/S (browser-server) structure, users are able to access the system using any devices with a web browser such as PCs, tablet devices and smart phones without the restriction of their platforms and its corresponding operation is accomplished without the necessity of installing software on remote terminals. The 3D web-based smart home can provide great convenience, flexibilities and immersive visualization to users.