Latest News

27.05.13

Semantic IPTV auf der LNdW 2013

Semantic IPTV wird in der Langen Nacht der Wissenschaften als interaktives Medienerlebnis im...

20.02.13

Semantic IPTV auf der Cebit 2013

Semantic IPTV präsentiert eine neue Version der Smart Media Assistant Benutzerapplikation auf der...

15.06.12

Semantic IPTV auf der LNdW 2012

„Semantic IPTV” wird im Rahmen von Connected Living in der Langen Nacht der Wissenschaften als...

Smart Telephony System

The Smart Telephony System (STS) is a telephony service for ambient home environments. As the name says it acts as a telephony system by connecting different devices and allowing specific services.  It allows splitting, distributing and merging of media streams offered by used services to overcome the problem that a service is usually bound to a specific end device and a location. Besides seamless media stream distribution, it offers several functions for the cloning and transcoding of a stream to improve the benefit. Integrating a media gateway the functionality is hidden to the outside of the environment. To allow functions like Follow-Me (the user walks through his house and the conversation follows him automatically) the system integrates -besides normal SIP phones- other multimedia devices supporting protocols like UPnP or DLNA.

STS provides the following features:

  • enabling VoIP through SIP
  • offering a user interface for controlling the communication
  • integrating multimedia devices like webcam, speakers or television
  • supporting media functions like stream- cloning and -transfer

In the context of IPTV the STS realizes all media stream functions for a TV channel, i.e. switching or cloning the channel to other devices. Moreover it could separate audio- and video-stream and distribute them individually to different devices for enabling new scenarios or use cases.