My Home Sphere - Services in The Intelligent Wireless Home: Project P1206

October 2002
European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications GmbH
Project P1206
My Home Sphere
Services in the intelligent
wireless home
Project P1206
The Vision
My Home Sphere is the vision of the home
of the future. My Home Sphere will provide
you and your guests with seamless and personalised services (figure 1) which will make
your home even more enjoyable. Those services will be tailored to your well-being, communication and entertainment needs. Services could be offered in an intuitive way, getting input from sensors in your house and
from your known preferences for e.g. light and
temperature.
Figure 1: Creating "My Home Sphere"
personalised
entertainment
personalised
information
broadband
services
communication
A broadband and wireless communication

infrastructure will support My Home Sphere
services and in particular allow you to exchange personalised multimedia communications with your family and friends.
domotics
sensors
climature,
temperature
User scenarios
Figure 2: A home where technology is transparent
My Home Sphere will be configured and pro- personal digital assistant (PDA) that puts him
filed to different lifestyles as described in the in control at home, for travels and at work,
following scenarios.
so he carries it with him everywhere except
in the shower.
Single, professionally active
In the single person scenario, the 32-year-old He has not felt overwhelmed by all the techKurt is an early adopter but not a technolog- nology in his home because the system has
ical freak. His favorite services are Unified been extended gradually and with the support
Messaging Services (UMS), Personal Video from his friends and online learning. Although
Recording (PVR), security monitoring, con- the system has never failed, he does not trust
trolling electrical switches, sharing home it completely, e.g. Kurt has not installed an
made video and digital photos with his friends electrical opening mechanism to his front
and music playing videoconferencing service. door.
Kurt has an advanced set-top box but it is his
Two person, professionally active, without children

Maria is a free-lancer around 30s in IT-business. Maria lives together with her boyfriend in an apartment. Both of them are early
adopters of new mobile terminals, finger print recognition,
home security, automated light and air control, etc. They
have the newest home entertainment system, which
starts immediately when one of them enters home with
a selection of personalised music. The young couple dream of accessing and editing all available
media.
Figure 3: Accessing a large choice of

broadband entertainment over ADSL
Home with children

Erkki is a 43 year old entrepreneur. He lives
together with a 9 year old daughter and a very
unreliable companion Kalle. Erkki wants to
enjoy his life without any unnecessary problems. He uses smart devices and related services to save time and to make the daily routines as easy as possible.
Figure 4: A smart device and services for

daily routines. As an example: Locating
car borrowed by a companion.
Elderly people
Grandmother Martha is 69 years old and stays
alone in her small home. She feels that she
is no longer that mobile and sometimes feels
lonely and forgetful. A recent advertisement
combined with the strong encouragement of
her children motivated her to subscribe to My
Home Sphere services.
The attached security and health care devices
and services give her now a good feeling of
being well protected. Videoconferences, gymnastic in tele-communities, network games like
cross-words for elderly people and adapted
music and entertainment makes her part of
the society.
Figure 5: Accessing personal entertainment for elderly people
Technology
In the last years a lot of innovations and devel- My Home Sphere system consists of:
opments have been done in the whole chain Wireless mobile user devices
starting from the user terminals through the A home server connected to fixed and wirein-house networks, gateways, access networks
less home networks and to broadband links
to the services. Corresponding devices will be A remote My Home Sphere server
soon available on the market at acceptable
prices. All these innovations can now coop- Together they shall offer:
erate to realise the vision of My Home Sphere Easy configuration and interaction with
and to change the home from a conglomerlocal appliances
ation of appliances to a single harmonious sys- Easy finding and interacting with remote
tem.
service providers
Personalisation, location awareness and
context awareness
The components of a technical and service every device without wires. The advances in
platform building this system are shown in microchip and storage fabrication enable the
Figure 6.
development of residential gateways and
home servers suitable for the delivery of
Wireless mobile user devices like PDAs, Web- advanced services. ADSL and VDSL transport
PADs, smart phones, head-sets and advanced data at several Mbit/s from and to the home
remote controls are ideal to communicate to over the telephone network. Besides hundreds
the home and to the household devices. Voice of digital TV programs and other services can
and touch control will bring additional con- be delivered by cable or satellite.
venience. Wireless cameras, radio tags and
biometric sensors enable new security solu- My Home Sphere services and other
tions.
third party services can be used at
home and remotely by the home
Wireless broadband networks such as HIPER- owners and the service manLAN/2 or WLAN are suited to distribute wire- agement companies.
lessly TV programs and other video applications to different terminals. Additionally Bluetooth/Milliwatt sensors can connect nearly
Figure 6: Main components of the technical platform
Wireless and Wired Devices for
Communication
and Control
Infotainment
Residential
Gateway
Home
Server
ISDN/PSTN
External
Network
ADSL/VDSL
CABLE/SAT
My Home
Sphere
Services
Third
Party
Services
Household
Applications
Security
Track a. Trace
Access
Point
802.11a/b
Bluetooth
HIPERLAN/2
GSM
GPRS
UMTS
Remote
Access
Eurescom P1206 project

The Eurescom project P1206 started on 1st The foreseen applications should make use of:
June 2002 with a planned duration of 18 the broadband features of the targeted
months. This project will investigate how wirelocal wireless network,
less networking technologies can be deployed the benefit of mobile secure access within
together making use of broadband connecthe home and from remote sites,
tions to the homes.
and the personalisation of services for different scenarios.
The project will look at the service gateways,
wireless and wired home networks as well as In addition to the services provided by the netend devices and appliances which can be con- work operators the service platform will supnected to the network.
port third party services.
Partnership
If you are interested in joining Eurescom and
the P1206 project to help develop the software and hardware components of My Home
Sphere system and the associated services,
please contact Eurescom programme manager Valrie Blavette (blavette@eurescom.de)
Additional information can be obtained from:

www.eurescom.de/public/projects/
P1200-series/P1206/.
The project participants

Project Members
Name
Company
Email
Project Leader: Josef Noll

Anders Spilling, David Ohlson, Juan Carlos Lopez Calvet,
Bente Borgundvg Berg
Monira Abu El-Ata, Christian Althaus, Edwin Wiedmer
Eckard Bogenfeld, Josef Kraus, Manfred Rosenberger
Pasi Juhava, Mika Laurell
Jean-Luc Grimault
Telenor
josef.noll@telenor.com
Swisscom
Deutsche Telekom
Elisa Communications
France Telecom
Monira.AbuEl-Ata@swisscom.ch
Eckard.Bogenfeld@t-systems.de
Pasi.Juhava@elisa.fi
jeanluc.grimault@francetelecom.com
Eurescom programme manager: Valrie Blavette
Eurescom
blavette@eurescom.de
Invitation to "Wireless services in the

future home" workshop 20-21.3.2003
The objective of the Eurescom workshop
Wireless services in the future home is to
present concepts for home networking and
service platforms as well as early experience
from trials, and to discuss benefits and business opportunities that eventually will lead to
a wide deployment of future home services.
This workshop is planned as the meeting place
for telecom operators, service providers, hard-
ware and software manufacturers and others

interested in the provisioning of services and
applications in the Home environment. Venue
is at Eurescom, Heidelberg.
www.eurescom.de/public/events
Innovation through collaboration

Eurescom is the leading organisation for collaborative R&D in telecommunications. Our mission is to provide efficient management of research projects
and programmes for member companies and other clients. We offer more
than ten years of experience in managing large-scale distributed R&D using
a dynamic network of experts. Companies who wish to collaborate on the
key issues facing the telecoms industry are welcome to join the Eurescom
community.
2000 EURESCOM Participants in Project P921-PF
European Institute for Research

and Strategic Studies
in Telecommunications GmbH
Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 35
69118 Heidelberg, Germany
Tel.: +49 6221 989-0
Fax: +49 6221 989 209
E-mail: info@eurescom.de
http://www.eurescom.de

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October 2002

European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications GmbH

Figure 1: Creating "My Home Sphere"

A broadband and wireless communication

Figure 2: A home where technology is transparent

Two person, professionally active, without children

Figure 3: Accessing a large choice of

Home with children

Figure 4: A smart device and services for

Figure 6: Main components of the technical platform

Wireless and Wired Devices for

Eurescom P1206 project

Additional information can be obtained from:

The project participants

Project Leader: Josef Noll

Eurescom programme manager: Valrie Blavette

Invitation to "Wireless services in the

ware and software manufacturers and others

Innovation through collaboration

2000 EURESCOM Participants in Project P921-PF

European Institute for Research

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