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ESTIA: Managing the intelligent home (27/11/2006)

Enhanced Networked Architecture for Personalised Provision of AV Content within the Home Environment

(ESTIA) The newly launched project ESTIA focuses on the design and development of technologies for managing audiovisual content and white-goods functions in the home. The project foresees a future time when all domestic audiovisual (AV) devices will be integrated into one single network accessible from a single device gateway, which users will be able to customise to their preferences. ESTIA will develop strategies for localised audiovisual content distribution, as well as ways to manage white goods such as the fridge and the freezer. These will all be integrated into one network where, based on user identity, the user will be able to manage the whole system. Users can personalise home networking applications such as entertainment and appliance control simply by setting the service components located at the residential gateway. The project is part of a greater EU initiative to explore and develop solutions for future home network environments.

(Courtesy of IST Results)

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