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European Initiatives
Collaborations in European Programs
Other partners: Pace, Technicolor, NXP, Myriad France SAS, 4MOD Technology, HI-IBERIA Ingenieria y Proyectos, ADD Semiconductor, Video Stream Network, SoftKinetic, Optrima, Fraunhofer, Vsonix, Evalan, University UJF/LIG, and Institut Telecom
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AppsGate will develop an Open Platform to provide integrated home applications to the consumer mass market. The set-top box is the primary point of entry into the digital home for television services including cable TV, satellite TV, and IPTV. AppsGate will transform the set-box into a residential gateway, capable of delivering multiple services to the home, including video, voice and data. The AppsGate project is putting together chip suppliers, consumer electronics OEMs and service providers to demonstrate an advanced Set Top Box that provides a home gateway for applications in the areas of entertainment, home automation, energy management and healthcare. This project aims at developing an Open Platform to provide integrated home applications to the consumer mass market. The set-top box is the primary point of entry into the digital home for television services including cable TV, satellite TV, and IPTV. This device has evolved beyond its historical role as a simple black box sitting on top of a large TV set into a device that supports a variety of functions, notably interactive television applications. Another interesting development is the concept of residential gateway, which is a complex device capable of delivering multiple services to the home, including video, voice and data.
Both the set-top box and the residential gateway can be combined into a unique platform to deliver the same rich experience to multiple users in different rooms. When various devices are connected to this platform and multiple applications are seamlessly integrated together, the concept of application gateway or AppsGate is born. This new platform, which offers the prospect of unprecedented business opportunities, is the focus of the project.
Collaborations with EIT KIC ICTlabs
ICTLabs is the KIC for ICT (http://eit.ictlabs.eu/ict-labs/ ) ICTlabs is set up as a network of 6 "co-location" centers in Helsinki, Stockholm, Berlin, Paris, Eindhoven and Trento. The Paris node is run by Inria with partners Alcatel Lucent, Orange, University Paris Sud Institut Telecom.
PRIMA actively participates in the thematic actions: Smart Spaces, Smart Energy Systems and Health and Well Being.
ICTLabs Action Line Smart Spaces (ASSP) Activity 11547 : PI3 - Pervasive Information interfaces and interaction.
With activity PI3 we have constructed and released an "Attention Recognition Module"
ICTLabs Action Line Smart Spaces (ASSP) Activity 12201 : TIK - The Interaction Toolkit
PRIMA coordinates the Activity TIK. This activity will deliver a standard library of tools for human computer interaction for smart Spaces.
ICTLabs Action Line TSES - Smart Energy Systems Activity 12201 : Activity 11831 Open SES Experience Labs
PRIMA has constructed a testbed that integrates information from multiple environmental sensor to detect and track people and recognize their activity.
ICTLabs Action Line THWB Health and Wellbeing, IActivity 12100 "Affective Computing".
PRIMA has constructed a embedded software system for mobile computing that can detect and track faces, and measure the physiological parameters of Valence, Arousal and Dominance in order to recognize and stimulate human emotion.