ePerSpace: A Global Generic Network for Seamless Personalised Services

The ePerSpace project is developing and implementing a generic distributed networked system with wide ranging applications, accessible at home and globally anywhere else outside home. The project is creating an open, interoperable and trusted integration framework to create network enabled audiovisual systems and home platforms where home and personal devices can seamlessly work together providing personalised services, provisioning content adaptation, and managing service platforms. Using the personalisation information the system can recognise and form specific user communities towards which specific services can be directed. The paper presents the main concept and components of the system such as: the global service manager (GSeM) which handles service providers, users and the residential gateways (RGs), and local service manager (LSeM), which manages home and personal devices inside the home area network (HAN), and communication between GSeM and LSeM