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Universal Control Hub Reference Implementations

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About
Standards
Features
Intended Users
Acknowledgement
See also

About

The Trace Universal Control Hub (UCH) is a reference implementation of the Universal Control Hub specification by the Trace R&D Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. The UCH software is available in two versions:

UCHj (Java implementation, based on JDK 1.6 or later)
UCHe (C/C++ implementation for embedded systems or any C/C++ platform)

NOTE: These UCH reference implementations supersede the previous "Trace URC Software Development Kit (SDK)". The code of the URC SDK has been subsumed under the UCH project.

Standards

The UCH reference implementation is based on the following standards:

ISO/IEC 24752-1:2008, Information Technology - User Interfaces - Universal Remote Console - Part 1: Framework
ISO/IEC 24752-2:2008, Information Technology - User Interfaces - Universal Remote Console - Part 2: User Interface Socket Description
ISO/IEC 24752-4:2008, Information Technology - User Interfaces - Universal Remote Console - Part 4: Target Description
ISO/IEC 24752-5:2008, Information Technology - User Interfaces - Universal Remote Console - Part 5: Resource Description
URC Consortium: Universal Control Hub
URC Consortium: URC-HTTP Protocol
URC Consortium: Resource Property Vocabulary
URC Consortium: Resource Server HTTP Interface

Please see the URC Technical Primer for an overview of existing standards and tools around the Universal Remote Console (URC) technology.

Features

The UCH reference implementation in a nutshell:

Light-weight Universal Control Hub implementation
Partial conformance with ISO/IEC 24752 (see release notes for UCHj and UCHe for a list of supported and unsupported features)
Includes binaries of selected UCH-related projects (target adapters, controllers, etc). Please refer to the pertinent release notes for details.

Intended Users

The following users should be interested in the UCH reference implementations:

Device manufacturers: to make their devices remotely controllable via the URC standards
UCH manufacturers: to provide a control hub based on the URC standards
Controller manufacturers: to make their remote control software work with any UCH or URC-compliant target
Developers of remote user interfaces: to make their user interface "pluggable" for a target's socket based on the URC standards
Researchers: to investigate and use existing URC-compliant solutions in their research and prototype projects

Acknowledgement

The creation of the underlying software was funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR), US Department of Education under grants H133E980008, and H133E990006; the National Science Foundation (NSF) via the Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (PACI); and gifts from Microsoft and Sun Microsystems.