Efficient Mac Protocol for Smart Homes

Nowadays, due to rapid growth in wireless communication

technologies, the smart home concept has become very popular,

with an aim to establish a better quality of life by deploying fully

automated control of appliances and providing assistive support

to users. In a smart home, users and appliances are

interconnected by an enhanced communication network

comprising transmission media, such as twisted pair cable and

optical fiber, which transfer digital signals per a communication

protocol.

In this work, a smart home area sensor network (SHAN) is

simply known as a home area network and comprises all the

mechanical, electrical and digital devices that are interconnected

to form a network and can communicate with each other as well

as the user to create an interactive space. Such a network has a

central utility gateway that enables occupants to control home

appliances remotely over the Internet.