Accessing and utilising Smart Venues for experiments and pilots

1. Accessing and utilising Smart Venues
for experiments and pilots
Future Internet Week
Aalborg, Denmark
Simon Crowle
9th May 2012

2. EXPERIMEDIA FMI challenges
 Unique facility for large-scale FMI experiments
 Challenges:
 Evaluating lab technology in the real-world
 Integration of technologies and infrastructure
 Understanding user experiences
 Delivering insights with real-world value to
stakeholders
 Meeting ethical and legal obligations
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3. Use-cases, smart venues & technologies
 Scenarios:
 Live & Augmented (Participative community events: UGC & AR)
 Live & 3D (Collaborations: HQ A/V, 3D, meta-data)
 Live & On-line (Fused RW/online communities; personalized interactions)
 Smart venues: Schladming, CAR, FHW
 Base-line technologies
 Pervasive gaming & Augmented Reality
 High quality/UGC media streaming & production
 Immersive environments
 Social networks
 Content/experimental data management systems
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4. EXPERIMEDIA test-bed methodology
 Insights: How technology enhances smart venues
 Multi-disciplinary approach
 An eco-system with multiple stakeholders
 New partners & technologies over time
 Value Impact Assessment (VIA)
 User, business and technology values
 Phased & scaled experimentation approach
 Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA)
 Expert driven assessment (EAB/DPB)
 Phased consultation process
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5. Architecture: overview & principles
 Driving requirements for EXPERIMEDIA arch:
 Evolving requirements
 Integration & adaptation
 Experimentation
 Security & privacy
 Extensible capabilities/technologies
 Stakeholders’ point of view important
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6. Architecture: Content lifecycle
 Content authoring
 High quality content Delivery Authoring
 User generated content
Management
 Content management
 Controlled & secure access
 Privacy
 Content delivery
 Multiple platforms
 Varying infrastructure & performance
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7. Architecture: Experiment lifecycle
 Experimental data
 QoS, QoE, QoC
 Acquisition
 Delivery
 Management
 Processing & reporting
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8. EXPERIMEDIA capabilities & technologies
 Top-down: FMI capabilities
 Bottom-up: Technology model
 Technical maturity levels
Experimental technologies
FMI Content/Experimentation
 Baseline content components
FMI Baseline technology model
Capability model
Audio/Visual CC
Experiment CC
Pervasive CC
 Social (SCC)
Social CC
 Audio/Visual (AVCC)
 Pervasive (PCC)
 Experimental (ECC) Infrastructure services
 Security & privacy protocols
 Cloud integration
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9. Social and Pervasive models
QoE feedback
SCC
AR/POI integration
PCC
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10. A/V and Experiment models
Collaborative
pool side training
Remote analysis
& coaching
AVCC
ECC
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11. Schladming experiment architecture
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12. Wrap-up
 EXPERIMEDIA & PPP: similar challenges & usages
 Deploying FMI architecture in real-world situations
 Comparable usage scenarios (commercial/legal contexts)
 Enabling technology integration within smart places
 EXPERIMEDIA’s approach offers:
 Insights into best practice for larger scale pilots
 A methodology consistent with large scale
experimentation
 Capability & technology models (similar to PPP enablers)
 Coming soon: 1st software release & open call
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13. thank you
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