The characteristics of PCs, huge storage capacity, tremendous processing power, and high flexibility are becoming available for consumer devices like set-top boxes, TVs, and VCRs. Interconnection of these devices and wireless communication with various portable devices will create a complex home system with the capacity to store many types of data and offer new ways of interacting with it. To offer the user high flexibility and ease of use, new solutions are required. Advanced retrieval methods are needed to support accessing data stored anywhere in the home system from any device. Meta-data obtained through analysis, services, and logging user behaviour is needed to support these functions. Transfer of data must be easy, and transfer and adaptation of accompanying meta-data must be transparent to the user. The combination of broadcast, storage, and internet will open the way to new types of applications and interactions with the home system. A large distributed storage space will be available in future home networks consisting of CE equipment, PCs and handheld devices. The objective of the project is to find innovative solutions for the movement, organization and retrieval of information in such a heterogeneous home system. Three major technical issues are under consideration: 1) New Meta-data computing methods are needed to support advanced retrieval methods. This means ways to solve how to generate meta-data by analysing the content, howto combine meta-data from various sources and how to transform meta-data for use by different devices; 2) New services providing meta-data, applications and UIs to make retrieval of information easier for non-IT-expert users; 3) Standards for inter-storage communication need to be extended in the area of handheld devices, meta-data storage and services.

SPATION: Services Platforms and Applications for Transparent Information management in an in-hOme Network

ADAMI, Nicola;LEONARDI, Riccardo;MIGLIORATI, Pierangelo
2003-01-01

Abstract

The characteristics of PCs, huge storage capacity, tremendous processing power, and high flexibility are becoming available for consumer devices like set-top boxes, TVs, and VCRs. Interconnection of these devices and wireless communication with various portable devices will create a complex home system with the capacity to store many types of data and offer new ways of interacting with it. To offer the user high flexibility and ease of use, new solutions are required. Advanced retrieval methods are needed to support accessing data stored anywhere in the home system from any device. Meta-data obtained through analysis, services, and logging user behaviour is needed to support these functions. Transfer of data must be easy, and transfer and adaptation of accompanying meta-data must be transparent to the user. The combination of broadcast, storage, and internet will open the way to new types of applications and interactions with the home system. A large distributed storage space will be available in future home networks consisting of CE equipment, PCs and handheld devices. The objective of the project is to find innovative solutions for the movement, organization and retrieval of information in such a heterogeneous home system. Three major technical issues are under consideration: 1) New Meta-data computing methods are needed to support advanced retrieval methods. This means ways to solve how to generate meta-data by analysing the content, howto combine meta-data from various sources and how to transform meta-data for use by different devices; 2) New services providing meta-data, applications and UIs to make retrieval of information easier for non-IT-expert users; 3) Standards for inter-storage communication need to be extended in the area of handheld devices, meta-data storage and services.
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