ZUMA: A Platform for Smart-Home Environments

Although electronic devices permeate the home and offer unsurpassed power and features, many impediments still exist to realizing the concept of the smart-home: configuration complexity, minimal device interoperability, difficulty of use, lack of personalization, and no integration with sensors for awareness and adap- tation. We define four tenets of smart-home environ- ment: Zero-configuration, Universality, Multi-user opti- mality, and Adaptability (ZUMA), and describe a plat- form based on a set of clean abstractions for users, con- tent, and devices. The platform enables configuration and organization of content and networked heterogene- ous devices in a smart-home environment. We validate the platform with a prototype implementation and ana- lyze its flexibility and infrastructure requirements.