Connected home
Home electronic appliances can be connected with people and each other via telecommunications, allowing people to access their appliances remotely or even have them “talk” with one another. The connected home lets you expand your offering to include advanced services and remote access to digital content, removing barriers for use and thereby stimulating digital consumption, communication and sharing. Imagine being able to display your recently taken mobile phone photos on your friend’s living-room TV with just a few simple clicks. Ericsson is pioneering developments such as this.
- The connected home is not science fiction – it is happening now. The Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) certifies more than 100 devices per month – from TVs to stereos and cameras.
- The connected home makes it possible for different devices to interact, for example, allowing a podcast that a consumer has downloaded to the mobile while on a bus to be played on an audio-capable device in your home.
- The connected home offers a wealth of new revenue opportunities by allowing users to access content and data remotely, from family photos to the music library.
- The connected home also helps you reduce churn and attract new customers – you can guarantee your users will always have access to their important content, wherever they are.
- Ericsson is pioneering this development, prototyping a combination of DLNA capable devices in the home linked to IP-Multimedia- Subsystem-capable networks and mobile devices that allows seamless interconnect inside as well as to and from the home.
Consumers want their media anywhere and at any time. This is one of the drivers of the connected home, where consumer electronic devices interact and enable remote access to digital content.
Based on the Universal Plug and Play family of standards, interworking profiles developed by the Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) already enable TV sets, set-top boxes, game consoles and cameras to upload, download and display data from other devices. The DLNA certifies more than 100 products each month and soon will enable interworking for all sorts of devices across home networks.
A home gateway connection opens up the possibility for users to access all the information stored in the networked home, from any other location. This gateway approach leaves the consumer electronics and telecommunications business models unaffected, while creating synergies between the two.
