A Universal Device Controller (UDC)

TL;DR: The proposed UDC acts as an intermediary between the user and the slave devices to be controlled, which are cooker, kettles, oven, electronic devices like personal robots, home security systems, audio/video players, and other consumer electronic devices which respond to external control requests or exposes status information.

Abstract: cooker, kettles, oven, electronic devices like personal robots, home security systems, audio/video players, and other consumer electronic devices which respond to external control requests or exposes status information. We refer to these end devices as slave devices in this paper. The only requirement of the slave device to be controllable by the UDC is that it should be capable of responding to control requests or transmitting status information. Other devices and appliances which do not possess such a mechanism can also be made compatible to be operated by the UDC but may involve addition of few hardware components. The proposed UDC acts as an intermediary between the user and the slave devices to be controlled. The user can communicate with the UDC using any of their own mobile devices like smartphones, tablets, laptops, Personal computers or any other ubiquitous computing device with Wi-Fi or Bluetooth connectivity and some buttons for input. These devices are referred to as master devices in this paper. The UDC smartly communicates with the slave devices to discover and identify the controls