Telefónica I+D is a company totally owned by Telefónica S.A and operational since 1988. Telefónica S.A has created Telefónica I+D to fulfil its Research and Development requirements with more excellence and profitability and to contribute to Telefónica Group competitiveness through technological innovation. Over the last years, the line of work of Telefónica I+D has evolved to conform to the objective of becoming a service creation lab. Telefonica I+D is deeply involved in projects related to the Digital Home (residential gateways, home automation and indoor communication services) both internally and at European level (some examples of IST Projects: HomeOnAir (Wireless access to the home), Hometalk (Internet and voice enabled home), ePerSpace, Medianet).
Telefónica acts as Project Coordinator of TEAHA, as well as contributor to most of the technical WPs.
Advantica is a premier provider of advanced technology and systems solutions that help high performance energy and water delivery companies world-wide improve their operating performance and achieve their business vision. Clients use Advantica's solutions for smarter asset management to improve financial performance, operational efficiency, customer service and regulatory compliance, while maintaining safe and reliable operations. Advantica satisfies the unique requirements of each client through the appropriate combination of professional services, including consultancy, and Stoner software products.
In the TEAHA Project, Advantica is representing TAHI (The Application Home Initiative), a UK based consortium of Corporates, SMEs, Academic Organisations and RTOs. The aim of TAHI is to accelerate the adoption of networked applications and services by connected home-based users. In the TEAHA programme, Advantica is the coordinator of WP5 (Validation) as well as contributing to WP1, WP4, WP6, WP7 and WP8.
Since its creation in 1946, Electricité de France (EDF) has the responsibility for generating, transmitting and distributing electricity in France. Today, EDF is present in 22 countries, where it supplies 41,6 million customers. 167 309 employees contribute to the activity, generating consolidated sales of 44 919 million Euros (2003). The aim of the EDF's R&D Division is to keep electricity costs competitive, prepare the generating facilities of the future, enhance the quality of supply while preserving the environment, as well as to develop innovative solutions with the customer in mind.
In the frame of the TEAHA Project, Electricité de France contributes to the definition of the overall service platform architecture and to the development of energy (and related cost) management services, exemplar of potential partnerships between utilities and other smart home service providers.
Fagor Electrodomésticos with more than 4200 employees is the main company of a group which started in 1956 manufacturing household appliances, and from several years being the leading Spanish company in this area. It is a member of Mondragón Corporación Cooperativa–MCC. The products from Fagor cover the whole range of classic home appliances and also a new range of home automation networked devices: kitchen appliances, water sensors, gas sensors, water actuators, gas actuators, intrusion detectors, intelligent plugs and system controllers.
Cost reduction, mainly in installation, and to get convergence between different sectors on the home automation market is the main objective of Fagor to research an RF solution within TEAHA Project.
Homega Research is a leading provider of technology and market research in the field of technologies and services for the home. Based in Sophia Antipolis, France, Homega Research is organising the annual & international Net-atHome™ Conference & Exhibition, the premier event addressing "Home networks and gateways, connected appliances and value-added services to the home".
In the framework of the TEAHA Project, Homega Research is coordinating WP7 (Marketing and Dissemination) and is contributing to Project management activities within WP8 (Project Management).
IKERLAN Technological Research Centre is a non-profit making company, of a private nature with a vocation for public service. It was set up in 1974 in the heart of what is today Mondragón Corporación Cooperativa–MCC. It is a member of EITE (the Basque association of technological centres), EARTO (European Association of Research and Technology Organisations) and FEDIT (Spanish Federation of Innovation and Technology bodies). The Communication Department of Ikerlan is taking part in this Project and its main objective is to integrate new communication technologies in products that require a personalization of its electronic
In the frame of the TEAHA Project, Ikerlan is working on researching new RF components to be integrated in products in general and in Fagor home automation products in particular.
The Katholieke Universiteit Leuven/COSIC is involved in different research activities to create an electronic equivalent for primitives found in the physical world such as confidentiality, signatures, identification, privacy, etc. To achieve this goal, their research concentrates on the design, evaluation, and implementation of cryptographic algorithms and protocols, for various applications, ranging from electronic voting over electronic payments to wireless networks. The goal is to achieve efficient and secure but flexible solutions.
Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands is one of the world's biggest electronics companies and Europe 's largest, with sales of EUR 29 billion in 2003. It is a global leader in colour television sets, lighting, electric shavers, medical diagnostic imaging and patient monitoring, and one-chip TV products. Its 165,300 employees in more than 60 countries are active in the areas of lighting, consumer electronics, domestic appliances, semiconductors, and medical systems. Royal Philips Electronics is tenth on Fortune's list of global top electronics corporations. We are active in about 60 businesses, varying from consumer electronics to domestic appliances, and from security systems to semiconductors.
Philips Applied Technologies is part of Royal Philips Electronics and supports Philips, its partners and suppliers as well as a selected number of companies outside Philips by applying technologies. We help customers transform initial ideas into competitive products and cost-efficient manufacturing solutions within healthcare, lifestyle and technology. Our services play an important role within the Philips product divisions and for external customers. Where Philips Research and other research institutes provide new ideas, Philips Applied Technologies translates these ideas into processes, equipment or manufacturable products by applying the invented technologies. In this way, we support our customers in achieving their desired market position.
Contact : Mr. Toshio Nomura,
Director Information Technology and Systems Group
Sharp Laboratories of Europe Ltd was established in 1990 near Oxford, UK by Sharp Corporation of Japan, to research and develop novel technologies for consumer electronic devices. It works closely with other divisions of Sharp Corporation worldwide, as well as with universities, companies, standards bodies and industry consortia. It actively participates in local government and EC projects. Current fields of research include liquid crystal displays, laser diodes, silicon circuit design, 3D displays, smart cards, language technology and A/V technology. There are currently around 100 employees working for SLE.
SLE is actively researching many aspects of home networking, with particular interest in the role digital televisions can play in interfacing with networked applications and services. SLE's involvement in TEAHA will lead to an enhanced understanding of the utility of UPnP and OSGi technologies within the home. Participation will also provide insights into the practicalities and consequences of connecting disparate A/V and control networking technologies. These experiences will inform future product design.
Trialog is a system and software engineering company in the fields of real-time and embedded systems. It focuses on innovative systems for the automotive and home / consumer electronics marketplaces. Most of the devices being developed for these markets today have networking capabilities and can communicate with their environment, such as other peer devices and Internet access. Trialog core competencies are therefore oriented towards the right combination of real-time embedded software and networking technologies which are the keys to building such communicating devices and their interfaces to large business information systems. TRIALOG engineering process focuses on system, network and software architecture, design-to-cost and design-to-security.
In the frame of the TEAHA Project, Trialog is responsible for technical steering and co-ordinator of WP1 (Open Secure Middleware Framework for seamless interworking). It will be involved in home network protocol development activities.
The University of Twente (UT) in the Netherlands is an entrepreneurial research university. It was founded in 1961 and offers education and research in areas ranging from public policy studies and applied physics to biomedical technology. The UT is the Netherlands' only campus university. The Distributed and Embedded Systems research group (DIES) is one of the research groups of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, its Department of Computer Science and the Centre for Telematics and Information Technology. The mission of the DIES research group is to perform research that leads to improvements in distributed and embedded systems engineering, and to improvements in the quality of embedded and distributed systems. The areas of activity include: real-time systems, computer systems architecture, security and applications.
Within the TEAHA Project the UT is involved in the area of home networking, specifically service discovery and residential gateways. The University of Twente contributes to WP1, WP4, WP6, WP7 and WP8.
Born in June 2000 as the spin-off of the Corporate Electronics R&D unit from Merloni Elettrodomestici, WRAP is committed to the evolution of a networked world in which everything is smart and connected. WRAP works toward a networked world, in which electrical devices are first capable of generating and memorizing meaningful information and second capable of interacting among themselves and with the external world. In this new world devices can operate better, self-adapt to changes, save energy, money and time, self-diagnose their problems, reduce troubles, increase peace of mind, can be monitored from the outside, answer to your commands, update their functions, be your everyday partner.
The participation to the TEAHA Project will allow WRAP to improve its competencies in Home networking and Home automation. The foreseen ultra-low cost communication technology will moreover allow the cost-effective incorporation of new features in household appliances, and the integration of new products and services for household use.
