COMANCHE: An Architecture for Software Configuration Management in the Home Environment

The number of "intelligent" devices with computing and communication capabilities, that surround people in the home environment, are continuously growing. This kind of devices is characterized by software running on them but this needs to be configured and updated from time to time. The user who wants to configure and update these devices has to face the variety of devices configuration procedures and to find the software updates from different manufacturers. This intrinsic difficulty in configuring and updating devices, together with their spreading, make the necessity of an automatic configuration system grow. The COMANCHE project has proposed a complete architecture for software configuration management in the home environment, which aims to overcome the heterogeneity of configuration and upgrading procedures and will allow the deployment of value added services. This paper will give a screenshot of the defined architecture, comparing it also with other configuration and updating existing solutions, like OMA and TR-69.