An XML web services mobile interaction solution for X-10 powerline networking

In this article, we will outline the implementation of X10Services, an infrastructure for presenting services to mobile computing devices such as PDA or Smartphones. The infrastructure uses the X-10 powerline networking as communication protocol and the Web Services paradigm as the core technology for exposing household appliance across the network. Therefore X10Services is a software layer that is able to translate the requests of diverse mobile clients versus the X10 devices. In this application, we illustrate the main features about the X10 protocol communication focusing on Microsoft Framework .NET 2.0 for the interaction among the PC and serial IO port.