Research Assistant Professor PHAM, Van Cu, Center for Digitalization Endeavors, received Presentation Award in 2024 IEEE 13th Global Conference on Consumer Electronics (GCCE 2024).

GCCE 2024 is an annual international conference sponsored by IEEE Consumer Technology Society, and it was a hybrid event held in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka (Japan) and online from October 29 to November 1, 2024.
The conference brought together top technical professionals from the consumer electronics industry and academia to exchange information and results of state-of-the-art work on systems, circuits, technologies, processes and applications.

*Reference: GCCE 2024

■Date Awarded
November 1, 2024

■Title
Towards ECHONET Lite Web API as a RESTful API for Matter Devices

■Authors
Cu Van Pham, Tao Xin, Toan Nguyen, Gia Duc Le Trong (VNU University of Science, Vietnam), Yasuo Tan

■Abstract
The ECHONET Lite Web API (ELWA) is a crucial part of the ECHONET 2.0 vision, offering a standardized interface at the IoT platform level for smart homes. This enables service providers to utilize home appliances from multiple vendors and implement intelligent services. However, there are limited options for commercial home appliances that support ELWA, and they are expensive. In contrast, Matter is a new protocol gaining traction in consumer electronics, with a wide range of affordable products available. However, Matter primarily focuses on standardizing at the device level, leaving the IoT platform open for diverse ecosystems to develop. In this paper, we introduce our solution that integrates Matter into ELWA, enabling service providers supporting ELWA to work with Matter devices. This integration promotes a win-win scenario for both ELWA, which gains access to more compatible devices to attract service providers, and Matter, which avoids ecosystem lock-in issues at the IoT platform level. The proposed solution has been successfully tested with both commercial and emulated Matter devices using an ELWA server following the latest ELWA guideline v1.1.6. This work paves the way for implementing intelligent services for smart homes, such as elderly monitoring and disaster prevention, by utilizing low-cost home appliances.

■Comment
We are very honored to receive this award. It inspires us to keep doing great work in the future. We sincerely thank the ECHONET Consortium for financially supporting this work.

January 28, 2025