BS EN 62457:2008

What is this BS EN 62457 - Home network communication protocol over IP about?  

BS EN 62457 discusses multimedia home networks with a focus on home network communication protocol over IP for multimedia household appliances. BS EN 62457 specifies the requirements for the interface between the Home Network Lower Layer for a country’s home network of standalone-type household appliances and the TCP/IP Layer for cases where it is intended to introduce a TCP/IP Layer to each of the nodes comprising such home network of standalone-type household appliances.  

The specified interface in the Home Network Lower Layer consists of 2 portions, the TCP/IP Interface, and the lower medium-specific Interface, BS EN 62457 shows the composition of the Home Network Layer and the standardized portions. BS EN 62457 specifies the requirements for the lower medium-specific Interface, short-distance radio standard additional layers are added in the future. 

Who is BS EN 62457 - Home network communication protocol over IP for? 

BS EN 62457 on home network communication protocol over IP is useful for: 

• Smart home devices manufacturers 
• Smart home devices suppliers and retailers 
• Developers of multimedia home network 

Why should you use BS EN 62457 - Home network communication protocol over IP?  

BS EN 62457 provides International Standards for protocols that operate on IP. The IP network transfer protocol used to transfer a Home Network frame shall be the connectionless User Datagram Protocol (UDP). 

The advantages of applying BS EN 62457 are: 

• It is applied to many types of Home Network standards 
• Both Home Network nodes with TCP/IP Layer and without can coexist under the same Home Network middleware 
• Household appliances can communicate with audiovisual equipment, PCs, and PC-related equipment, and vice versa, without requiring any gateway. 
• Household appliances can handle text and audiovisual data 
• Audiovisual equipment, PCs, and PC-related equipment can handle Household appliances data. 
• Household appliances can freely select a suitable lower-layer medium from various lower layer media below TCP/IP