NEM – How to implement Convergence!

SRA Presentation – Update May 2006http://www.nem-initiative.org

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Strategic Research Agenda

Basic Concept: Services and applications give ideas about NEM-scenarios Remaining sections describe necessary technology aspects / components

Overall Structure Services and Applications Content Network Infrastructure, Delivery Networks Terminals, User Devices Enabling Technologies

Example Service Scenario

John is at home - he carries several NEM-devices / NEM-components allowing him to communicate with and access services in his immediate environment.

The components automatically connect to each other forming a personal “NEM-servant“. It may contain some kind of display and loudspeaker as well as sensors for voice, force, mimic, gesture, smell, and other biometrical data.

This ‘virtual’ device senses its environment for other NEM-components it can connect to (e.g. large screens but also information agents)

John wants to travel to a European City he has not yet visited (and country)

Through his NEM-servant John books a trip to XYZ The NEM-servant presents the complete schedule and hotel bookings

In preparation of the travel the NEM-servant searches for films and other information material on the essential habits of the visited country

Since John can best remember facts after training it in a game, the NEM-servant seeks in the NEM-service space a NEM-service for converting the material into a short knowledge game. It also provides some of the specific preferences of John to make the game easily comprehensible

During the flight John plays the “learning” game Arriving at the airport John watches the latest news on a public airport TV.

Since it is broadcast in native language the NEM-servant searchs for a translation service, connects to it and John listens in his native language.

Example Service Scenario ct’d

In the evening he is looking for a really good local dinner His servant searches and recommends a restaurant. The city map service provides a scenic walk to the restaurant complemented

with information about the scenic objects His servant records the walk (and comments) in order to generate a travel

report later At the restaurant he looks at small video clips for guidance on his local

viewing device. His servant is recording his „experience“.

Arriving in his hotel he wants to relax and watch a movie on the in-room cinema.

His home preferences are transferred via the network so he is “feeling” like at home

Since he showed interest in the local culture, the service includes some local highlight movies in the movie selection.

As the movie is quite old, some processing for optimal projection on the in-room cinema is done

His colleagues at work are very interested in his trip experience and ask for the travel report.

Based on the recorded content, his comments, and the associated meta data he produces a very nice blog report.

He wants to publish his report. He wants to include some of the information of the services in XYZ, so he is clearing the rights for the items references in his blog.

He shares his report as a community TV-service.

NEM is about … People --> citizen

Analyse and “connect to” his/her environment The environment is seamlessly offering services meeting user

expectations Intuitive user interfaces

Services and content Flexible, dynamic, automated service creation User driven service creation

Networking of … service atoms which can connect themselves over networks to new

services optimizing the service to the needs and expectations of the consumer. Combination of different service types (communication, media, gaming, …)

... networks Seamless session handover between different networks (vertical handover) QoS guarantees

... device components which can connect to each other and form new devices.

Based on the combination of capabilities new features may be available Complementing the features set by adding “networked services” The feature may not be located on the device or even locally available (could be located in

the „home environment“)

SRA v3.0: Services

provisioning of all kind of e-services by means of electronic media; examples: e-government, e-learning, e-health enriched personal communication personalized service creation pervasive gaming

games that are always present, available to the player advertising for new media content digital cinema and electronic content delivery and much more …

SRA v3.0: Content

convergence between personal communicaiton and content private and public content production content adaptation content personalization, context awareness, ambient intelligence content summarising content indexation (automatic metadata generation) innovation in creative formats semantic searching for content open content format supported by commonly available tools and much more …

SRA v3.0: Network Infrastructure

Network based intelligence and end-to-end service control seamless service provisioning network planning and optimization security and privacy ubiquitous multimedia networking and much more …

SRA v3.0: Terminals, User Devices

home multimedia devices gaming terminals residential gateways virtual distributed devices and much more …

SRA v3.0: Enabling Technologies

• Natural and multi-modal user interfaces• Interoperable Digital Rights Management, content protection (e.g. Watermarking)• multimedia search engines (driven by metadata)• content indexing (audio, video, text (with associated av-data))• Metadata generation, processing and distribution • mixed reality; animated computer graphics• media formats• privacy trust• flexible compression• human language technologies (translation tools, speech recognition)• acoustic and sound generation, display technologies• multimedia analysis and computer vision (object recognition and tracking, data fusion)• personalisation and interactivity• intelligent agents and semantic technologies, ontologies• platform independent adaptation tools• micropayments• and much more …

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NEM SRA update Process Modifying the structure New sections to facilitate comprehension of the strategic issues of the

NEM and its further implementation service scenario‘s matching of SRA driving technologies bridging the big challenges to the high level goals

Timing of the NEM SRA update First official public SRA version was delivered 31st December 2005 and

formally approved by the NEM GA on March 2006 Revision of SRA was launched at NEM GA March 2006 meeting Working Groups have been activated to reflect on each SRA section and

further match the consistency of the whole of the SRA New SRA update is expected to be completed by 15th June 2006