 | Developing an open middleware and intelligent user service for the networked home environment
Leading Europe’s companies and research establishments in mobile and home networking, software development, consumer electronics and domestic appliances joined together in Amigo—an integrated project that realized the full potential of home networking to improve people’s lives.
The Amigo project was created in order to research and develop open middleware and intelligent user services for the networked home environment, offering users intuitive, personalized, and unobtrusive interaction by providing seamless interoperability of services and applications. |
Traditionally, home automation, consumer electronics, mobile communications, and personal computing were strictly separate domains—with their own industrial players, with their own business plans, standardization efforts, and form factors. The Amigo consortium combined partners and researchers from all of these areas with the goal of utilizing the strengths of the different areas to use context and user information to create ambient services that use all devices in the home. The contribution of the European Microsoft Innovation Center (EMIC): As member of the core architecture team, the European Microsoft Innovation Center (EMIC) was responsible for the design and implementation of the security and privacy, programming framework, and content distribution components. Our design focused on interoperability with legacy, state-of-the art, and upcoming technologies, as well as on ease of use from an application developer point of view. The components were built on top of the .Net and .Net Compact Framework and, as such, are usable on a wide range of devices. The European Microsoft Innovation Center (EMIC) was also work-package leader for standardization, exploitation, and dissemination. For more information, visit the project’s Web site at:
http://www.extra.research.philips.com/euprojects/amigo/ | |
