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What is Networked Appliances

Chapter 52
Encyclopedia of Internet Technologies and Applications
Devices that publish the functions they provide as independent services that can be discovered by other devices in the network to control, monitor, manage, and extend the functionality they support beyond what they where initially designed to do.
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Networked Appliances and Home Networking: Internetworking the Home
Madjid Merabti (Liverpool John Moores University, UK), Paul Fergus (Liverpool John Moores University, UK), and Omar Abuelma’atti (Liverpool John Moores University, UK)
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 8
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-993-9.ch052
Abstract
The Internet has revolutionised the way we access and disseminate information and changed the way we communicate with each other. More and more homes are Internet-enabled as people from all walks of life embrace this technology because of the benefits it brings. However, to date Internet usage has predominately focused on personal computing. This said, an interesting technological shift is taking place, whereby any device, irrespective of its capabilities or conventional usage, will form part of the Internet. These devices will reside at the edge of the Internet, thus enabling devices to exploit the power of Internet communications to interoperate devices and utilise the functions they provide.
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