TEAHA Market Background Document
Sophia Antipolis - October 25, 2004
The second version of the TEAHA (The European
Application Home Alliance) Market Background Document has been released
on January 7, 2005.
Prepared by Homega Research, a partner of the TEAHA
Project, this document aims at enabling the Project Management Committee
to check, periodically, that the project remains well positioned and, if
appropriate, to agree upon changes of direction.
In liaison with the European Commission, it has been agreed that this
reference document should be considered as a public deliverable and
therefore placed at the disposal of all the players involved in this
area, in order to contribute to sharing information usefully on a
general level prior to the development of healthy competition.
The next release of this document is planned by June 2005. Please
contact us (info@teaha.org)
if you have any remarks or suggestions: we will be happy to take them
into account when preparing the next release of the TEAHA Market
Background Document so that the document can be even more complete,
accurate and useful to the Connected home industry.
Here is the report introduction:
This document was prepared as part of the TEAHA project (www.teaha.org),
funded by the European Commission (DG Information Society, IST Programme)
by a project team of Homega Research (www.homega-research.com)
supervised by Roger Torrenti and Karine Valin.
The TEAHA project, launched at the beginning of 2004 and coordinated by
Telefonica, includes in its partnership: Advantica, EDF, Fagor, Homega
Research, Ikerlan, Konnex, Philips, Trialog, Wrap, the University of
Twente and the Catholic University of Leuven.
In its first 36 month period, it aims to:
contribute towards specifications for home
system architecture that will allow the interoperability and
interworking of equipment, whatever the application in question
(encompassing both the home control world and that of consumer
electronics).
develop, in this environment, low-cost
powerline and radio communication solutions (corresponding in
particular to the needs and constraints of white goods
manufacturers) and components for home gateways (facilitating the
development of value-added services based on such gateways).
As part of the TEAHA project, Homega Research has
been given several responsibilities which include technological,
environmental and market watch activities in the field of the Connected
Home worldwide. The goal is to enable the project partners to check,
periodically, that the project remains well positioned and, if
appropriate, to agree upon changes of direction.
The present document, updated every six months, is based on the results
of Homega Research's watch activities, schematised in the illustration
below (“Weekly Highlights” are reproduced in Annex 1).
In liaison with the European Commission, it has been agreed that this
reference document should be considered as a public deliverable and
therefore placed at the disposal of all the players involved in this
area, in order to contribute to sharing information usefully on a
general level prior to the development of healthy competition.
For more information visit the TEAHA dedicated website:
www.teaha.org .
