Research and implementation of unified smart adaptive remote control protocol for consumer electronic equipments

Continuously growing technology and changes in customer needs has brought together a vast increase in the number of consumer electronic devices. With each new device, new features are introduced in parallel to this growing technology. New features mean more buttons on the devices? remote controllers. Remote controllers were unable to show the same technological improvements as the new technology consumer electronic devices. Remote controller concepts in use today enable us to design only controllers with fixed number of buttons. Nevertheless some remote controllers that exist in the market today can define their own buttons and even macros by their properties or by aid of the computers. But all remote controllers basically control the devices with single directional communication by sending key codes with the help of protocols they use. To realize the same technological development achieved in consumer electronic devices a new concept is needed for their remote controllers. This approach is based on the principle of changing the number of keys on the remote controller that can be used according to the state of the controlled device. The aim of this study is to design a new protocol in order to develop more flexible applications and provide a framework for new kind of applications. In this approach bidirectional communication is targeted. The main aim in this thesis is making the communication is bidirectional. By doing this the number of key can be reduced or limited. Thus users will deal with smaller number of keys consequently the system will be less likely to crash on any given condition as the user will not be able to press unsuitable keys.