The paper deals about Linux based Residential gateway built in grid environments-Grid Based Residential Gateway (GBRG). The Residential Gateways are intelligent network interface devices located at the consumer premises that allow residents to access Internet services delivered to the home while also accessing the different services offered by various smart devices located within home .This entails connecting devices to each other within the connected home and also connecting networked devices to other networks and services, thus converting into 'smart homes' and applying the same to global computing. However, such devices often have limited resources in terms of CPU, storage, battery power and communication bandwidth. Thus, there is a need to transfer ubiquitous computing application services to more powerful computational resources. Hence, the need to converge the idle processor's power from home appliances and use this to do multitude of computations required, via. the Linux based residential gateway. The paper broaches upon the proposed residential gateway and its interfacing in a grid computing environment with a brief survey on both of these technologies utilized in smart homes. The question arises on how to access on the real-time data collection from all the home appliances and how the sharing of resources takes place. This is done with the help of Sensor Networks connected in the home devices.

Keywords: Grid Computing, Smart Homes, Residential Gateway, Home Automation, Embedded networking, Sensor Networking.