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- addressing the ever expanding range of computing and connected devices in the home environment<\/li>\n
- ensuring devices in the home have quality of service regardless of the access method, i.e. 3G, UMTS, LTE, DSL, Fibre, Cable, WiFi\u2026<\/li>\n
- offering users ubiquitous access to converging services across devices in the home as well as seamless handover from one device to another in terms of service continuity<\/li>\n
- strengthening and standardising wired and wireless support of Device Management<\/li>\n
- supporting Machine to Machine (M2M) devices which are playing an increasingly important role in the extended distribution of services, and need a common management platform<\/li>\n
- empowering users of devices in the home environment to exploit other capabilities such as centralised address books and access to rich multimedia content repositories<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Mark Cataldo, Chairman of the Board of the Open Mobile Alliance and Workshop Chairman, greeted the success of the Workshop saying \u201cThe Open Mobile Alliance is very pleased that our organisations have come together to address this key technology area.\u00a0 By cooperating, our organisations, OMA\u2019s service enablers and APIs will enrich the support of multimedia services across the rapidly diversifying range of devices.\u201d<\/p>\n
Robin Mersh, Broadband Forum CEO adds \u201cIt is increasingly evident that in today\u2019s rapidly developing market, not only is the remote management of devices needed, but it\u2019s crucial for both fixed devices and mobile devices. Co-operation between the various SDO\u2019s and fora is both necessary and very welcome.\u201d<\/p>\n
With the advancing introduction of M2M devices, they require remote management and their distinctive functionalities provide exciting opportunities to create new services.\u00a0 Andy Germano, the Small Cell Forum Vice Chairman stated \u201cThe availability of service applications and APIs in the handset and home access points is quickly enabling the introducing of exciting services which build on recognising the user\u2019s presence in the home.\u201d\u00a0 Oliver Maiwald, DECT Forum Board member says \u201cThe home environment is becoming increasingly exciting, with support of smart metering, home control units and gateways facilitating an explosion in services.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hans-Werner Bitzer, HGI Vice Chair stated \u201cTogether with our partners, HGI is making\u00a0enabling steps towards convergence by providing a modular and manageable application platform and service APIs for home connected services.\u201d\u00a0 Mohammed Dadas, representing the Open IPTV Forum continued \u201cWith device discovery, content distribution\/transfer, and content protection, the home is creating a mass market for IPTV services of the future.\u201d<\/p>\n
The fora are now investigating how to further cooperate around these shared interest areas, and look forward to continued development and promotion of emerging services in the home environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"