In recent years, the smart home field has
caught wide attention and witnessed rapid devel-
opment. Smart devices, continuously increasing
in number, make user management and imple-
mentation more difficult while promoting the
development of the smart home. How to design
an efficient smart home management platform
is one of the great challenges the current smart
home field faces. This article refers to the core
idea of SDN, and proposed the software defined
smart home platform, SDSH for short. The
design features of virtualization, openness, and
centralization can effectively integrate the het-
erogeneous network devices in the smart home
platform, and flexibly adapt to the great differ-
ence between family scenes and user demands.
At the same time, this article brings up the core
technology of SDSH, and discusses the applica-
tion value of the four core technologies and the
new challenges the current technology is facing
in a smart home scenario. In the end, regard-
ing the SDSH application scenarios, this article
analyzes the household experience innovation
brought by this kind of smart home management
platform, and the opportunities and challenges
the SDSH platform faces.