A home appliance networking system and a method for controlling the same. The
home
appliance networking system comprises a plurality of passive home appliances for
transmitting and receiving data to/from an internal network of a home networking
system. The passive home appliances are controlled according to control commands
received over the internal network. The home appliance networking system further
comprises a plurality of active home appliances that transmit the control commands
for the passive home appliances to the internal network, and a network manager
that manages the internal network and controls data transmission and reception
of the plurality of passive home appliances and the plurality of active home appliances.