Domoverse platform

Description

This page is intended as placeholder for preparing the Domoverse platform project.

It is a project whose aim is to explore the HMI capabilities of Metaverse-related technologies (OpenSim/OpenLife/OpenCroquet/Solipsis) in a domotics context (X10/Z-Wave, Gumstix, ZigBee...), as home server control and root web house.

Project organization

1. State of the art: metaverse platforms and domotics management systems
2. Evaluation of metaverse and domotics management systems candidates
3. Implementation of a tmplab server for experimentation
4. 3D Replication of the lab and it's electronic devices
5. Implementation of XMLRPC-like server for services exposition (X10, ...)
6. Linking virtual objects' actions to XMLRPC calls
7. Gluing all together

Components

• XMLRPC server:
  • keeps a list of all detected devices and features
  • exposes their functionality trough the remote procedure call interface
  • hosts a 3D modelization of controlled items
• device_connectors: protocol-specific plugins
  • X10 devices exploitation
  • ZigBee
  • Z-Wave
• metaverse_connectors: metaverse-specific components (speaks with metaverse server)
• metaverse objects and scripting codebases and snippets, domoverse-related templates and coding resources

Resources

http://del.icio.us/fthiery/domoverse http://community.webbricksystems.com/files/folders/manuals/entry15.aspx (web API example)