Novel plug-configure-play ZigBee-based smart home system

The key purpose of a smart home system is to provide people with a better indoor life experience using the technology of Internet of Things. However,there are some limitations which make the current smart home system impractical,such as high cost,complex installation,poor flexibility and maintainability. In this paper,a novel plug-configure-play ZigB ee-based smart home system is proposed to provide repeatable use and improve flexibility and maintainability with the reductions of cost and complexity,which can be customized and reconfigured without redevelopment. In this system,new sensors can be flexibly added through different interfaces on the ZigB ee nodes and the sensor network layer is transparent to the users. Therefore,by using our method,users can customize and use the smart home system simply by configuring the sensors information via software on the application layer.