Home appliance networking technology creating new services beyond triple play

摘要

The number of broadband access users has been increasing enormously worldwide.rnTelecom carriers have been developing new services provided to these broadbandrnaccess users. The major ones are Internet access, VoIP and IP-TV that are ingredientsrnof “triple play”. Now we are investing new services beyond triple play, and believing thatrnconnecting home appliance onto the Internet will create new attractive network services.rnThe investigation showed that there were technical issues to be solved in order to makernthe services secure and useful. The issues are network security risk andrnaccommodating various appliance interfaces. To solve the issues, we propose newrnnetwork architecture composed with a home gateway and a center server. Prototypernsystem which demonstrates our concept and technology is also described in this paper.