Envisioned Innovations
The CAM4Home project will develop one common metadata framework and content bundle description method that can be applied for both personal and commercial applications and is interoperable with standard metadata and content representation technologies. The project has integrative approach and utilizes existing technologies and standards developing only the necessary extensions and enhancements required to achieve the project goals. This approach will considerably facilitate the integration and industrial exploitation of the project's results.
By defining advanced system and service architecture for content delivery and distribution to and from the digital home environment, the project will enable on the fly personalized CAM content insertion and playback that will take into account user's network, user's preferences, content availability and terminal capabilities. CAM4Home content delivery framework will be capable of providing personalized sets of bundled content to a tremendous range of end-users in a real environment. The CAM4Home content delivery framework considers content bundle creation and insertion both from professional/commercial sources as well as from the digital home environment triggered by end users. CAM4Home project will aim to ensure a guaranteed level of service and seamless content interoperability across a converged complex content delivery and distribution networks as well as an optimised use of underlying delivery network bandwidth and Quality of Service (QoS) characteristics. The realization of the project goals implies innovation technologies in the following areas:
- Specifying, developing and demonstrating one common and unified meta-model and metadata framework supporting creation, distribution, delivery, interpretation and playback of collaborative aggregated multimedia content to and from home environment,
- Designing, developing and demonstrating a service architecture and service platform for CAM content lifecycle management from the content bundle creation to distribution, interpretation and playback.
- Developing and demonstrating smart content network including services for content adaptation and content personalization and community network services.
- Enhancing content interoperability by providing terminal, platform and network transparent access to multimedia content.
In more detail, the CAM4Home objectives will address at least the following technical issues within the focus of the project by carrying out the work specified in the work plan:
-
Co-ordinated cross-media and cross-network delivery of collaborative aggregated multimedia content:
- Time synchronization of content bundle distribution, interpretation and playback
- QoS requirements for the delivery and playback of the content bundles
- Content adaptation over hybrid backbone networks
-
User experience, Context-aware and personalized content provisioning:
- Content adaptation to user preferences and playback environment capabilities
- Content personalization and filtering along user preferences and interests
- Autonomic content transcoding according to device and network capabilities
-
Added value content and network services:
- SMS/MMS notifications
- Instant messaging and other interactive services within community network
- Content sharing within community network
-
Secure and commercial P2P community network:
- Delivery channel for CAM content
- P2P indexing and search of CAM content
- P2P end user CAM content provisioning