ACEMIND: The Smart Integrated Home Network

Abstract

Digital home business is a large potential market for which ACEMIND European collaborative project intends to provide a set of consistent solutions to enhance the local network management in home and small enterprises. These networks are typically constituted by some tens of devices connected to each other via a set of wired and wireless technologies. The deployment of such networks has been intensive in Europe in the last decade and will continue in the future. However common end-users still suffer from complicated installation, operation or maintenance. Recent progress has been made to integrate heterogeneous connectivity into a single network. A proof of concept has been shown thanks to European collaborative project OMEGA and the hybrid network demonstrator has led to an IEEE standard and available commercial products. The goal of ACEMIND project is to enrich this initial concept with new features and services such as energy efficiency, packets load balancing or anomaly detection. Another target is to integrate future products using new transmission technologies. Then, using a unique user-friendly GUI (Graphical User Interface), it will be possible to monitor and manage the home network with a large range of services such as energy optimization, UHD TV or wellness.