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R-URC: Smartphone based RF4CE Universal Remote Control Framework  

Koo, Bon-Hyun (DMC R&D Center, Samsung Electronics)
Ahn, Tae-Won (DMC R&D Center, Samsung Electronics)
Park, Yong-Suk (DMC R&D Center, Samsung Electronics)
Shon, Tae-Shik (DMC R&D Center, Samsung Electronics)
Publication Information
Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI / v.47, no.2, 2010 , pp. 48-53 More about this Journal
Abstract
RC(Remote Control) is a technology that can efficiently control and transfer a variety of user commands to CEs. However, the existing RCs have been required various additional features such as communication between CEs, extension of communication range, low power-consumption and bi-directional communication according to the advent of new types of CE devices and its enhanced performance. Even though RC controller has many customers' requests, it is not a simple solution because most legacies work on IR-based RC. In this paper, we propose RF4CE-based Universal Remote Control Framework using Smartphone in order to solve the many constraints of IR legacies. The proposed R-URC system is designed by RF4CE platform which is a kind of de-facto standard for CE remote control communication. From the verification scenarios using various CEs and smart phone, we can see that the proposed R-URC shows the good practical usage in terms of contents sharing and smart CE control.
Keywords
RF4CE; 802.15.4; ZigBee; URC; Remote Controller;
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