A Smart Gateway Architecture for Improving Efficiency of Home Network Applications

Table 1

The comparison between the traditional gateway and the IAGW.

ID	Characteristic	Conventional gateways [2, 3, 8–10]	IAGW
1	Multi-interface	Mainly support ZigBee radio and have poor expansion	Using the stack hardware structure, it supports ZigBee, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth radio and is easy to expand
2	Secondary development ability	Need a large amount of work	New development workload is relatively small
3	Communication link monitoring	Need to add custom development	Automatic support after system development
4	System openness	Based on terminal development, all interfaces are private	The interfaces are standard and the openness and source utilization of the system are enhanced