This research focused on enabling Internet connectivity to a new generation of smart kitchen appliances that work on wireless power technology. In order to provide efficient and seamless communication with the appliances, the possibilities of utilizing the NFC channel for Internet connectivity were explored.

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This chapter discusses two possible architectures to connect the cordless kitchen appliances to the Internet. Design, advantages and disadvantages of both these architectures are covered in detail.

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This chapter discusses the comprehensive experimental evaluation of the Bridge Architecture by analyzing its performance based on latency, throughput, packet retransmissions, NFC bandwidth utilization, etc. for different NFC bit rates and data sizes. It also provides some recommendations for implementing this architecture.

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This chapter explains the Bridge Architecture for internet connectivity in detail. It describes the experimental setup used to study the architecture, discusses the two main challenges that this architecture presents and proposes solutions.

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This chapter studies the existing research and solutions in using TCP/IP on low data-rate and high delay networks like NFC. It concludes that the problem on hand, i.e., using TCP/IP on time-slotted NFC in the cordless kitchen appliances, is unique and hence new novel methods are needed in this case.

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This book focuses on enabling internet connectivity to cordless kitchen appliances. It introduces the Ki Cordless Kitchen standard, describes the possible architectures to enable internet connectivity and dives deep into addressing the networking challenges.

Today many kitchen appliances are being connected to the internet to facilitate “smart cooking”. The Wireless Power Consortium is working on the Ki Cordless Kitchen standard to make wirelessly powered cordless appliances a reality. In Ki, the cordless appliances are powered by inductive power sources integrated into the kitchen countertops. The cordless appliance and the power transmitter exchange data using a time-slotted NFC channel.

The book describes architectures and solutions using lightweight TCP/IP stacks to optimise and seamlessly adapt TCP to the time-slotted, low data rate NFC channel, and thereby enable a truly IoT-based cooking experience for cordless kitchens.@en

This chapter gives an introduction to the Cordless Kitchen concept, benefits and use cases. It throws light on the benefits of connecting cordless kitchen to the Internet and highlights the challenges involved in enabling Internet connectivity. A few possible solutions are also proposed.

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This chapter evaluates the effects of our solution on important TCP parameters such as TCP MSS, TCP CWND, NFC BER and other NFC channel characteristics using simulations and theoretical calculations.

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