In contrast to decreasing costs of electronic appliances enabling the realization of pervasive systems, the price of individual development of the software making up eHome systems is one of the major problems preventing their large-scale adoption By introducing a specification, configuration, and deployment process, the environment-specific development effort is reduced We support this process by our tool suite, the eHomeConfigurator which is introduced in this paper It creates a configuration graph, capable of describing dependencies and contexts of components in the eHome field The tool suite is used to configure and deploy various eHome services on different home environments Compared to the classical development process, the effort for setting up eHome systems is reduced significantly and opens up the possibility to decrease the development costs for eHome systems.
['Ulrich Norbisrath', 'Christof Mosler', 'Ibrahim Armac']
The ehomeconfigurator tool suite