AN Capabilities: Service and Applications Perspective

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AN Capabilities Service and Applications
Perspective

• Pierre-André Probst
• Senior Telecommunication Adviser,
  Swisscom/Switzerland
• Chairman ITU-T/ SG 16 Multimedia Services,
  Systems and Terminals

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AN capabilities a Service and Application
perspective

• Evolution of advanced digital telecommunications
  techniques and technologies opens new
  opportunities in  e-Everything  in our
  private/business environment
• Customers needs are becoming more complex and are
  evolving very fast
• These new trends have a major impact on the work
  program and on the working methods of the ITU-T

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AN capabilities a Service and Application
perspective

• Major present trends
• All kind of communications between
  customers/computers (4A)
• Multimedia
• Convergences (services, platforms)
• Broadband
• Mobility
• IP-based platforms
• Intelligent homes

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MM Service trends ubiquitous computing

• RFID Chef
• RFID Chef is a prototype application in the
  household domain that is used to experiment with
  various technical and methodological aspects in
  ubiquitous computing. It uses radio frequency
  identification (RFID) technology to connect
  real-world artifacts, like groceries, to a
  digital representation.

Source ETH Zürich/Switzerland (www.vs.inf.ethz.ch
/res/proj/rfidchef)