The digital home system is composed of service provider, home station, home terminal, and network. The service provider plays an important role in the digital home system. It provides not only information but also many kinds of services. The architecture and services of the service-hosting platform are described in the paper. Distributed structure is adopted for the system server and web technologies are used as human interface. By linking to the home station via internet, the service-hosting platform provides home automation and home monitoring services.
(SC) Service Controller Device Digital Home AP Server Web Server HTTPS-https is a URI scheme used to indicate a secure HTTP connection DB Server