News

5/8/2003

OSGi Alliance To Be Prominently Featured at IFA Congress; Berlin Exhibition Will Include and Highlight OSGi Members and Technology

The OSGi Alliance, an open forum focusing on the delivery of network services to the home, vehicles, and more in the automotive electronic, smart home, and service provision environments, today announced that a number of its members will be participating in the IFA Exhibition and Convention in Berlin August 29-September 3. Exhibiting at the show will be OSGi member companies Deutsche Telekom, Fraunhofer Institute, Panasonic, Philips, Samsung, Sharp, and Toshiba.

As part of the show on September 2, the e/home update will explore the latest topics on the home networking market. This year great attention will be paid to marketing strategies, new products and services and consumer needs.

Speaking at that update will be Dr. Susan Schwarze, member of the Board and VP Marketing, OSGi Alliance and marketing director, ProSyst Software AG. Her presentation, "The Networked Home - How Are Services Provided to Consumers?", will highlight the advantages of the OSGi Service Platform for manufacturers and service providers and provide OSGi based case studies on the delivery and management of innovative services and applications into the Connected Home. Representatives from Deutsche Telekom, Fraunhofer Institute, IBM and Siemens Voice Data Networking, all OSGi member companies, will also speak.

"The IFA Show in Berlin has a long tradition going back to 1924," said Dr. Schwarze. "The aim of the organizers has always been to present the most promising and innovative technologies for the consumer electronics market. The e/home update is a new branch of the show's concept focusing on smart home scenarios and devices. The fact that so many speakers from the OSGi Alliance will be presenting their products and solutions is both an acknowledgement of the work of the OSGi Alliance and motivation to carry on with the promotion of our open service delivery and management platform."

"Almost a full year has passed since the last e/home trade show", said Kerstin Kube, project manager e/home. "This is reason enough to focus on this theme at IFA 2003 and show the latest developments. Exciting new network-capable products from the world of consumer electronics will be on display at the exhibition grounds, not to mention MP3 music, holiday snaps, recordings taken from television and even DVD videos, which can be seen and heard all over the house via wired or wireless links. Many of those products will be presented by well-known enterprises from Consumer Electronics and members of the OSGi Alliance."

IFA is the world's largest consumer electronics exhibition. For six days, IFA opens its doors to European retailers, interested consumers, and the media, and is aimed at industry insiders as well as the general public.

The world's leading manufacturers will showcase a full spectrum of consumer electronics products. Six special sections will focus on the entire range of consumer electronics on display, including audio systems, high-end electronics, car media, television, video, camcorders, digital imaging, information and communication electronics, entertainment, online services, antennas, satellite systems, broadcasting and studio technology, and mobile/stationary telecommunication.

A special focus of the event will be network technologies for the private household, and Smart Home products and applications will be presented within the framework of the exhibition's key themes. Manufacturers will present their latest product innovations ranging from cable and wireless networks (including wireless LAN and Bluetooth) to home servers and portable digital receivers. One of the main themes this year will be the introduction of digital terrestrial television broadcasting (DVB-T) in the Berlin and Brandenburg area.

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www.ehome-berlin.de
www.osgi.org