Extended Home

The Extended Home team focuses on researching ways to build the connected home ecosystem, understanding user needs at home and innovating new concepts for devices and services, which can generate Nokia new business in the home domain.

The future possibilities of this research work include concept home devices, hybrid physical/digital presence, enhanced family togetherness and aware home.

Some of the key technologies, standards and alliances employed include Universal Plug and Play (UPnP), Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).

Research topics

User experience in the home environment
Remote access to home networks
Content sharing
Content protection and DRM
Family communications
Efficient power usage of home devices
Home automation

Resources

Trends and vision for the home domain (pdf)

Projects

Jeppe, a domestic videoconferencing device

Homebird - a task oriented approach to discovering and using home networks from smartphones

iHome - investigating how internet services which foster collaboration between members of the same household can be constructed and deployed

SmartSocket - allowing fine grained energy consumption monitoring for legacy home devices

Publications

J. Suomalainen, S. Moloney, Koivisto J., Keinanen K., "OpenHouse: a Secure Platform for Distributed Home Services". 6th Annual Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust, IEEE PST 2008, Canada, October 2008.

S. Moloney, P. Luoma, A. Virolainen: "Domesticating the video call". Demonstration paper at the Tenth Annual International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, Ubicomp 2008, Seoul, Korea, September 2008.

Petros Belimpasakis, Shahzad Akhtar Awan and Eleni Berki : "Mobile Content Sharing Utilizing the Home Infrastructure", Second IEEE Conference and Exhibition on NEXT GENERATION MOBILE APPLICATIONS, SERVICES and TECHNOLOGIES (NGMAST 2008), Cardiff, Wales, UK, September 2008

Martin Peter Michael, Mohsen Darianian : "Architectural Solutions for Mobile RFID Services for the Internet of Things", 2008 IEEE Congress on Services (Services 2008), Hawaii, USA, July 8-11, 2008. (abstract)

O. Rantapuska, M. Lähteenmäki, "Homebird--Task-based User Experience for Home Networks and Smart Spaces". Pervasive Mobile Interaction Devices workshop (PERMID 2008) at Pervasive 2008, Syndney, Australia

Belimpasakis, P., Luoma, J-P and M. Börzsei, M., 'Content Sharing Middleware for Mobile Devices'. Proceedings of the First International Conference on MOBILe Wireless MiddleWARE, Operating Systems, and Applications (MOBILWARE 2008), Innsbruck, Austria, February 2008. (abstract)

Virolainen, A., Saaranen, M., 'Networked Power Management for Home Multimedia'. Fifth IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC 2008), Las Vegas, USA, January 2008.

Past publications

Collaborators

Steering Committee of the InHoNets project
Industry Advisory Board of the IST CONTENT Network of Excellence

Contact

Seamus Moloney, Team Leader

Team members

Nokia Research Center