VIOTECH

Website: www.ict-alicante.eu/public/

The ALICANTE project proposes a novel concept towards the deployment of a networked ‘Media Ecosystem’. The proposed solution is based on a flexible cooperation between providers, operators, and end-users, finally enabling every user – first – to access the offered multimedia services in various contexts, and – second – to share and deliver his own audiovisual content dynamically, seamlessly, and transparently to other users.

Towards this goal, ALICANTE’s advanced concept provides Content-awareness to the Network Environment, Network- and User Context-awareness to the Service Environment, and adapted services/content to the End-User for his best service experience possible, taking the role of a consumer and/or producer.

To achieve such objectives, ALICANTE will develop an open, metadata-driven, interoperable middleware for the adaptation of advanced, distributed media resources to the user's preferences and heterogeneous contexts enabling an increased Quality of Experience

In  ALICANTE, VIOTECH will be the main technical contributor for the following tasks:
• Specification, design and implementation of the Overall Home Box layer (WP leader);
• Specification of the Cross-layer Monitoring System (Task leader);
• Design and implementation of the  Service layer monitoring components  (Task leader);
• Participation in design and implementation of monitoring components at User, HomeBox, CAN layers;
• Participation in integration of developed systems at ALICANTE pilots.

Consortium Participants = 17
Overall Budget= 11.056.450€