Smart device with Apple Homekit framework

One of the main pillars of today`s industry, also known as industry 4.0, is internet of things. It is caused by effort to connect individual entities to comprehensive system to achieve automated machine management and control. The goal is to not only interconnect devices or inanimate things, but also living things and that requires extensive digitalization. IoT is one of the complex tools that can help achieve this such a goal and that is why it affects many areas from industry over healthcare to everyday human activities. This thesis focuses on the last area mentioned specifically on the man’s household, which IoT transforms into the so-called concept of Smart Home. It is relatively new yet to be established concept, which is still forming the market and that is why it provides a decent chance of success to newly entering companies. These facts inspired the primary goal of this thesis, which rests in the preparation of product solutions for entering the market in the form of smart light switch/controller in home which is supposed to be replacement for classic built-in wall mounted light switches. For that purpose, partial tasks of this thesis are being gradually fulfilled. At first the wide range problematics of the internet of things is defined and examined, where primarily analysis of its architecture, interaction paradigms and used technologies allow furthermore focus on narrower area of Smart Home. With the conceptual idea of how this system works the current successful integration platforms of Smart Home are being analysed from the smart device developer point of view. One of them is chosen with regards to proposed product solution and it is the Apple Homekit platform, which is then analysed from several points of view when the key one of them is analysis of the non-commercial version of HAP specification. HAP is a proprietary protocol that is intended to be implemented to smart devices, that wants to be integrated into the Homekit platform. So, this protocol is implemented into specific IoT chipset, which is part of the proposed product that is introduced in the context of the last goal of this thesis. And that is a business plan elaboration. By fulfilling previously mentioned goals, following essential contributions will be achieved. Firstly, it is the business plan that economically yields the second contribution which is the proposed innovative smart product whose unique attributes are provided by integrating the IoT chipset. However, itself as a standalone hardware unit, it does nothing without the next important contribution of this thesis, which has the form of HAP specification implementation and the supporting programming code.