En Com PAs-2

En Com PAs-2

EnComPAs-2 is the acronym of Enabling Community Communications – Platforms and Applications – phase 2. The project started on May 2007 and will end on April 2009.

The project is focused on the implementation of a platform for providing home based services to the user within and outside his own home (extended home concept: car, office, other homes…).The applications framed in these services will be related to media delivery and contents management, to voice integration in the networks available at home (e.g. WiFi) and to the management and provisioning the service providers can offer.

The main problem with these services is the user acceptance, as they normally involve not very known technologies or devices with a complicated configuration The mission of the EnComPas-2 project is to make services and applications natural and easy to adopt by the users. To help this mission, the project is taking some hints into consideration:

• technology must be invisible
• applications must be self-adaptable to the user’s environment and way of living
• services and devices provided must be easy to configure
• service providers and operators should offer an efficient and effective way of service and devices management

All the work done in EnComPas-2 project will be reflected in the scenarios explained below.