Home Automation
Thijs Schreijer
Hardware
How to control it?
Interoperability
Sad state of affairs
What we need
xPL demo video
characteristics
structure
UPnP – Girder demo
UPnP gateway/middleware
Future

xPL

xPL is an open protocol intended to permit the control and monitoring of home automation devices
The primary design goal of xPL is to provide a rich set of features and functionality, whilst maintaining an elegant, uncomplicated message structure
The protocol includes complete discovery and auto-configuration capabilities which support a fully “plug-n-play” architecture – essential to ensure a good end-user experience.
xPL benefits from a strongly-specified message structure, required to ensure that xPL-enabled devices from different vendors are able to communicate without the risk of incompatibilities.