Technology Review and Trends in M2M Communication

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1 White Paper Techology Review ad Treds i M2M Commuicatio Machie to Machie (M2M) commuicatio is o the rise. There will be more machies coected to the Iteret tha huma beigs i the ext decade. M2M techologies trasfer data o the coditio of physical assets ad devices to a remote cetral locatio for effective moitorig ad cotrol. While M2M cocepts ad techologies have bee i use for quite some time, the chagig busiess scearios ad ewer use cases are actig as growth stimulats. Greater demad for M2M solutios is primarily beig triggered by the widespread adoptio ad proliferatio of affordable wireless commuicatio. This whitepaper provides isights ito M2M growth, its use cases across idustries ad overall ecosystem for adoptio. The paper also highlights various challeges expected i M2M deploymets. The paper delves a bit deeper ito Smart Home sceario ad describes specific solutios developed by TCS i the areas of smart eergy ad home etertaimet. The iteded audiece of this paper icludes Corporate Techology Office (CTO) Level Executives, Heads of Egieerig ad Product Maagers.

2 About the Author Sukriti Jalali Sukriti Jalali has 18 years of idustry experiece, i the desig, developmet ad validatio of embedded systems as applied to a variety of domais icludig idustrial automatio, cosumer electroics, automotive electroics, trasportatio ad process cotrol. Sukriti is curretly part of TCS' HiTech Ceter of Excellece, focusig o egieerig solutios for the High Tech idustry. Sukriti s areas of iterest iclude Real Time Systems, Embedded Software ad Machie to Machie commuicatios. Shalii Arora Shalii Arora has 15 years of desig ad developmet experiece i various domais icludig fleet ad cotaier maagemet solutios for the trasportatio idustry. Shalii also has expertise i desig, developmet ad validatio of mobility solutios o ios ad other platforms. Shalii is curretly part of TCS' HiTech Ceter of Excellece guidig home automatio asset creatio. Shalii s primary areas of iterest are Mobility ad Home Automatio solutios. 2

3 List of Abbreviatios Abbreviatio DLNA DMC DMPr DMR DMS GPS HAN HUMS HVAC IHD KPI LAN M2M PLC SOAP TCS UPP USB WAN wm-bus Expasio Digital Livig Network Alliace Digital Media Cotroller Digital Media Priter Digital Media Rederer Digital Media Server Global Positioig System Home Area Network Home Utility Maagemet System Heatig, Vetilatio, Air-Coditioer I Home Displays Key Performace Idicators Local Area Network Machie to Machie Power Lie Commuicatio Simple Object Access Protocol Tata Cosultacy Services Ltd. Uiversal Plug ad Play Uiversal Serial Bus Wide Area Network Wireless Meter Bus 3

4 Table of Cotets 1. Itroductio 5 2. Factors Drivig Growth 6 3. Idustry Focused Solutios 7 4. M2M Ecosystem 8 5. Stadardizatio 9 6. Home Automatio Focus Challeges I M2M Solutios Home Automatio Solutios At TCS Summary 18 4

5 Itroductio Machie to Machie (M2M) coectivity techologies primarily collect ad trasfer data o the coditio of physical devices, smart assets or covetioal cosumer items. Other ames that defie M2M or its subsets iclude the Iteret of Thigs, Coected Devices, Remote Moitorig ad Diagostics, Smart Computig / Smart Meterig ad Exteded Iteret. M2M cocept ad related techologies have bee i place for quite some time. However, it is oly ow that M2M is witessig accelerated growth. Smart devices coected to the Iteret are poised to become the iformatio ad services growth egies i the comig years. While M2M growth projectios are high, the related ecosystem has bee uable to keep pace with the complex requiremets. I additio, the curret M2M market is highly fragmeted ad stadardizatio levels are low. There are a umber of diverse players that eed to collaborate to arrive at a specific solutio. Whether it s the ed equipmet, the coectivity piece, the middleware, or the back-ed systems there are multitude of optios available for ay M2M use case. I such a sceario, Tata Cosultacy Services (TCS) with its depth of domai experiece, breadth of services, ad a extesive iovatio ecosystem, has a key role to play. Oly large system itegrators like TCS will be able to comprehed the complexities, brig i best-ofbreed solutios ad value-added services to realize the busiess beefits of M2M deploymets. This whitepaper provides a overview of various factors cotributig to M2M growth, its use cases across idustries ad overall ecosystem for adoptio. The paper also highlights differet challeges expected i M2M deploymets. It delves deeper ito Smart Home sceario ad umerous etworkig techologies that ca exist withi a home etwork. Rest of the paper provides a overview of specific solutios developed by TCS i the areas of smart eergy ad home etertaimet, which ca accelerate Smart Home implemetatios. 5

6 Factors Drivig Growth The basic M2M operatio is that remote sesors gather data ad sed it (wirelessly or wired) to a etwork, where it gets routed, through the Iteret or cellular etwork, to a cetralized server. O the server, the data gets aalyzed ad acted upo accordig to specific software i place. Data collected could iclude device idetity, locatio, status, coditio ad so o. Data could be ui-directioal or bi-directioal. The trasactios are primarily useful for improved decisio makig, better busiess processes ad ehaced operatioal efficiecies. The scope is far reachig because it is ot oly about smart devices havig a IP address but beig able to lik eve passive objects o the etwork. Followig are the key factors drivig M2M growth: Network Accessibility The possibility of coectig aythig from aywhere brigs ew scearios ad excitig prospects. Depedig o acceptable latecy, missio criticality, time-of-use pricig, peak data rates, security eeds, battery life, ad distace requiremets there is a deluge of protocols ad etworks accessible for use. For short-haul commuicatio i home etworkig, oe might evaluate ZigBee, wm-bus, Power Lie Commuicatio (PLC), WiFi, Z-Wave, LoWorks ad for log-haul it could be PLC, Etheret Broadbad, Etheret IP, WiFi/WiMax, 2G/3G/4G cellular or eve satellite commuicatio. Impact o Core Busiess Processes Compaies across idustries are ivestig i this iitiative because it is tightly itegrated with improvig the efficiecy of their core busiess processes ad hece they ca directly realize busiess beefits. Newer Reveue Streams M2M deploymets are creatig or ehacig reveue streams, for istace, for telecom compaies, prit service providers, satellite commuicatio services, cloud-service providers, utility firms, iche players ad system itegrators. No oe wats to miss the opportuities. For example, traditioal home security systems providers fid compellig reasos to move ito home automatio products ad home health services. They are usig M2M cocepts ad commuicatio to move ito ew services areas. Affordability Prices of ed devices, platforms, etwork operators, ad coectivity costs are all decliig i recet times. As these cotiue to drop, M2M solutios will become more maistream ad established. Regulatory ad Compliace Needs Coutry ad regio specific regulatory eviromets are expeditig M2M adoptio rates. For example, smart meter/smart home adoptio is beig drive by Gree Iitiatives ad moitorig of drivig patters is beig drive by the Isurace idustry i developed coutries. 6

7 Idustry Focused Solutios The beauty as well as the challege of M2M is that each solutio is uique depedig o what eeds to be moitored, cotrolled, diagosed, reported or billed. Gettig the right desig is crucial because M2M solutios directly impact busiess processes ad i most of the cases ed users. Oe also eeds to thik from solutios / services poit of view istead of thikig oly from a products view. Idustries, such as, trasportatio ad utilities have bee quicker to embrace the techologies. Other domais are also slowly but surely adoptig. Figure 1 provides specific examples of idustry led usage. Cosumer Electroics Remote moitor ad cotrol, iteroperability betwee ereaders, Gamig Devices, Picture Frames, TVs Trasportatio Fleet maagemet Services Track driver performace, fuel cosumptio Cotaier / Cargo maagemet GPS asset tackig Vehicle iformatio to third parties Utilities Smart eters - eergy & fuel cosumptio for home / idustrial Smart grid - moitor load real time Electric Vehicle Chargig Ifrastructure Healthcare Smartbody sesorsa Remote patiet moitorig of residetial/istitutioal - commuicate with smart phoe, cetralserver M2M Idustry Solutio Examples Home/Buildigs Smart home - measure / cotrol eergy, home health moitorig Buildig alarms - security, fire itrusio, emergecy HVAC, lightig, solar eergy, wid eergy Retail ATM machies - cash replacemet, repair diagostics, paper availability Supply chai - Empty shelves trackig, realtime stock iformatio Wired/Wireless POS data delivery - card paymets, accout balaces Maufacturig Customized solutios i Asset maagemet, smart sesors Moitor/diagostics for idustrial cotrollers, Tak Moitorig Data collectio, diagostics for maaged prit services Security Alarm System Moitorig - bakig, retail, buildigs Video Surveillace - real time moitorig, video aalytics smart cards Facility maagemet Figure 1: M2M Idustry Specific Examples The examples displayed i Figure 1 reiterate the fact that M2M market is poised to grow, give the rage of possibilities. By 2020, more devices will be coected to the Iteret tha huma beigs. More importatly, growth will come from the iformatio ad ew services that these coected devices will geerate. Figure 2, from Garter s recet press release, gives a preview of how meaigful iteractios through iteret coected devices will grow i the ext decade. 7

8 Iteret of Everythig Number of meaigful iteractios Iteret of Iformatio Iteret of Iformatio ad People Key milestoes Number of permaetly Iteret-coected devices Number of itermittetly Iteret-coected devices Volume of traffic from thigs > 50% of Iteret coectios are thigs > 15 billio > 50 billio Miority Thigs create more traffic tha iformatio ad people > 30 billio > 200 billio Majority Figure 2: Treds i Expasio of Meaigful Iteractios through the Iteret M2M Ecosystem A successful M2M solutio eeds to bled hardware, software, commuicatio ad value added services. A solutio is tightly itegrated with core busiess processes, thus drivig efficiecies i operatios, for example, Utility Services, ATM Kiosks, Health Moitorig, Smart Home, ad Maaged Prit Services. As each solutio is customized, there are various stakeholders that eed to come together to coceptualize, defie scope, develop, test ad sustai a solutio. Without a strog parter ecosystem ad alliaces i places, pushig M2M ito ew frotiers is goig to be a uphill task. Major parties ivolved i a M2M solutio are depicted i Figure 3. They iclude the followig: Hardware, electroics, ad semicoductor firms these provide the ed poit compoets or platforms from where data gets acquired (sesors, GPS uits, smart meters, RFID tags, video cameras, smartcards). Network ifrastructure compaies for iteret/ wireless/ cellular ad cloud services. Vertical iche players providig idustry specific middleware solutios. These are typically tier 2 ad tier 3 service providers. Large system itegrators to brig domai expertise ad successfully bid all the pieces together 8

9 System Itegrators & Services (TCS...) Network Ifrastructure (AT&T, Verizo, Ericsso, Cisco, Digi..) Hardware, Electroics (TI, Hoeywell, Motorola, Sierra Wireless, Itel...) Customized M2M Solutio Vertical Niche Players (Garmi, TomTom, Electrolux, OAsset, Qualcomm, Sesorlogic, RWE..) Figure 3 - M2M Ecosystem Stadardizatio The eed for stadardizatio is uderstadable give a plethora of devices, etworks, applicatios, idustries ad geographies. However, there is o sigle stadards body drivig stadardizatio efforts. The mai issue is at the device ed because each maufacturer is differet ad may use its ow proprietary techology for data collectio. M2M Alliace has a objective to icrease awareess of the opportuities created by wide ragig M2M techology ad associated solutios for both busiess ad commerce. Beig still i its ascet stages, M2M market does see a whole set of stadardizatio efforts i progress, for example: Europea Telecommuicatios Stadards Istitute (ETSI) TC M2M Chia s sesor etwork stadards workig group uder the Chia Natioal Iformatio Techology Stadardizatio Committee ZigBee Alliace - Suite of high level commuicatio protocols usig small ad low-power digital radios Telecommuicatios Idustry Associatio (TIA) TR-50 Smart Device Commuicatios Egieerig Committee (Uited States) HomePlug Alliace - Promotes adoptio of cost effective, iteroperable stadards-based home powerlie etworks ad products DASH7 Alliace Ope source wireless sesor etworkig stadard supportig tag-to-tag commuicatio I additio, each idustry or regio might have its ow special iterest group. For istace, Europea Smart Meterig Idustry Group (ESMG) is focused o stadardizig the itelliget meterig ifrastructure i Europe. HomePNA Alliace develops ad stadardizes techology for home etworkig over existig telephoe wirig. 9

10 There is a urget eed for a certai level of stadardizatio. However this does ot seem feasible i the ear term. There is o blueprit for M2M developmet ad stadards are still uder progress. Some cosolidatio ad acceptace of idustry specific stadards will gai tractio i the ext few years. Home Automatio Focus A Smart Home primarily provides services to the cosumer or third party compaies i the areas of Eergy Maagemet, Home Moitorig, Home Security, Home Health ad Home Cotrol. Such a system will typically iclude the followig compoets: Smart Devices Utility, security, thermostats, cosumer electroics havig a specific use ad usig coectivity techologies, such as, ZigBee, Bluetooth, Power Lie, Z-Wave. A Home Area Network (HAN) comprisig uderlyig commuicatio medium i lie with the device coectivity optios. Home Network Gateway or Residetial Gateway collects data from the HAN ad trasfers it to exteral world i a format eeded for the log-haul commuicatio. The Gateway should be a itelliget itegratio poit with a ability to support variety of home automatio protocols. Wired or wireless log haul coectio, such as, Etheret IP, Power Lie or Cellular broadbad. Web based or o-premise collectio of data ad storage. Iterfaces to a backed ERP system where aalytics, patter recogitio ad diagostics ca be performed. Display of data to various authorized users for moitorig, cotrol, reportig, billig of the home devices through multiple user-friedly iterfaces. Smart homes will cotai multiple coected devices ad key to the success of smart home is iteroperability betwee devices ad a efficiet itegratio poit which ca the become a platform for supportig differet Smart Home applicatios. Some example scearios i home automatio could iclude the followig: Smart appliaces, such as, a coffee machie ca be scheduled at a particular time of the day. Alerts ca go to security services based o certai violatios at home. Washig machie ca be scheduled to work durig off peak hours to save o the electricity bills ad optimize eergy usage. User ca cotrol the opeig / closig of doors ad curtais based o mood settigs - these could be pre-cofigured settigs. As the user eters the house, the garage door opes automatically for car parkig, lights switch o based o the light settigs. HVAC systems start fuctioig based o remote activatio through mobile. 10

11 12 Figures 4 ad 5 provide a high level structure ad relatio betwee devices, etworks ad users ivolved i a smart home deploymet. There are primarily two parts to a deploymet the first part focuses o the collectio of data from various home devices/protocols to a cetral home etwork gateway. The home etwork gateway, i most cases, resides withi the residetial premises ad provides two-way access to data ad commads. Smart Home Devices Home Area Network Home Gateway Log Haul Comm. Wireless Solar Array Z-Wave ZigBee wm-bus Iteret Gateway Device PSTN Provider PSTN/Etheret Broadbad Smart Meters (Gas, Water, Electricity) Bluetooth Wi-Fi / Wi-Max HVAC Wired WAN Gateway 3G Network Smoke Detector /Alarms Powerlie PLC Cellular Network Security Systems Home Appliaces HomePNA LoWorks Media Server Powerlie Commuicatio Figure 4: Smart Home Data Collectio The secod part focuses o aalysis ad usage of the collected data. There could be various kids of iterfaces provided to ed users depedig o the usage, for istace, eergy bills could be viewed by cosumers, data could be utilized by utility compaies, or data could be routed to a call ceter to support the cosumer base ad to aswer the queries. Log Haul Comm. Storage & Aalysis Users PSTN Provider PSTN/Etheret Broadbad Wi-Fi / Wi-Max Cloud Based Cell Phoe Access PC / Laptop 3G Network ERP Systems Cellular Network O Premise Techical Support Powerlie Commuicatio Third party services (e.g. utility compaies) Figure 5: Smart Home Data Aalysis ad Usage 11

12 The Smart Home data storage ad aalysis part is i may ways similar to ay other cloud or o-premise solutio deploymet ad the APIs, mobile, web iterfaces will be i commo. Each domai will however brig i uique Key Process Idicators (KPIs). Data to be aalyzed, reported ad displayed will also vary depedig o frequecy, storage, retetio ad latecy requiremets. The followig sectio describes various home etworkig techologies possible today i a Smart Home eviromet. Home Networkig Techologies Give the rage of wired ad wireless techologies available, it is o surprise that there are may optios to choose from. Followig are some of the major techologies ad alliaces promotig home etworkig protocols: ZigBee: ZigBee is a wireless mesh techology developed as a ope stadard to address the uique eeds of low-cost ad low-power wireless M2M etworks. It uses digital radios based o IEEE 802 stadard for persoal area etwork with a focus o moitorig, cotrol ad sesor applicatio. It is targeted at applicatios that require a low data rate, log battery life, secure etworkig as i wireless switches, electrical meters, lightig cotrol, smart eergy, HVAC cotrol, health moitorig ad so o. The success of ZigBee ca be gauged by the fact that over 300 leadig semicoductor maufacturers, techology firms, OEMs ad service compaies comprise the ZigBee Alliace membership. Z-Wave: Z-Wave is a proprietary low-power wireless commuicatios protocol desiged for home automatio, specifically to remote cotrol applicatios i residetial ad light commercial eviromets. Z- Wave is curretly supported by over 160 maufacturers worldwide ad appears i a broad rage of cosumer products i U.S. ad Europe. Z-Wave products ad applicatios fall ito every coceivable area of cotrol for residetial ad light commercial eviromets. These iclude lightig, HVAC ad security cotrol, home theaters, automated widow treatmets, pool ad spa cotrols, garage ad access cotrols, automated meter readigs ad ehaced demad maagemet. Etheret: Etheret is by far the most deployed, most kow ad trusted wired techology for LANs. These days, almost every device is Etheret-eabled. Besides offerig good Quality of Service (QoS) ad cost beefits, most of the users are well acquaited with this ad istallatio is ot a issue. Newer istallatio does pose problems i terms of cablig ad wirig withi the house. I additio, it might ot offer good QoS for multimedia applicatios. HomePlug: With HomePlug techology, electrical wires i the home ca distribute broadbad iteret, HD video, digital music ad smart eergy applicatios. The major beefit is that users ca easily establish a etwork usig a home's existig electrical wirig as the commuicatio medium. The most widely deployed power lie etworkig devices are "adapters", which are stadaloe modules that plug ito wall outlets ad provide oe or more Etheret ports. There are various specificatios uder HomePlug family major oes beig HomePlug AV for applicatios such as HDTV, VoIP ad HomePlug GreePhy targeted towards Smart Grid market. 12

13 HomePNA: HomePNA alliace develops wired home etworkig specificatios for distributig etertaimet ad triple play data over existig coaxial cables ad phoe wires. The techology, stadardized by the ITU G.h, provides data rates up to 320 Mbps with guarateed QoS ad remote maagemet ad diagostics capability eablig service providers to meet - ad drive - the growig demad for ew services such as IPTV ad VoIP. HomePNA has recetly bee approved by DLNA for iclusio i its Networked Device Iteroperability Guidelies. HomeGrid/G.h:The HomeGrid forum supports the deploymet of ext-geeratio of home etworkig usig i-home wirig (coaxial cable, phoe lie ad powerlie). The goal of HomeGrid is ot to create a specificatio itself, but to support the developmet of a specificatio i ITU-T G.h. G.h eables service providers to deploy ew offerigs icludig IPTV i a cost effective maer; ad allows cosumer electroics maufacturers to provide powerful devices for coectig all types of etertaimet, home automatio, smart eergy maagemet ad security products throughout the house. HomeGrid liaisos iclude: the Cotietal Automated Builders Associatio (CABA); power lie etworkig cosortia HomePNA Alliace; the Digital Livig Network Alliace (DLNA); ZigBee Alliace; Z-Wave, ad others. wm-bus: Wireless Meter Bus is a radio variat of the special Meter Bus Europea stadard for remote readig of gas or electricity meters. This bus fulfills the requiremets of remotely powered or battery drive systems, icludig cosumer utility meters. While it is suitable for some applicatios, such as, alarm systems, illumiatio istallatios ad heatig cotrol, it does ot meet the eeds of a large scale home etworkig techology. Wi-Fi: Home etworkig devices may also use Wi-Fi wireless LAN coectios by usig techology uder IEEE stadards. A wireless etwork ca be used for commuicatio betwee may electroic devices, to coect to the Iteret or to the wired etworks that use Etheret techology. While its badwidth is high, Wi-Fi might ot be the best home etworkig optio especially if the devices have to be o roud-theclock to trasmit data to a cetral server. It is still expesive, has high power cosumptio ad there could be issues aroud electroic smog. Challeges i M2M Solutios Orgaizatios are curretly facig may challeges i implemetig ed-to-ed M2M solutios primarily due to the large umber of techologies, services, trasport mediums, stakeholders ivolved i a deploymet. Some of the challeges ca be uderstood by lookig at a Smart Home sceario: Crowded Techologies Wireless ad wired techologies for home etworkig are pletiful. Iteroperability withi various smart devices is somethig that eeds to be cosidered. A security system might have differet techology from say a smart meter ad these might have bee deployed at differet poits of time. Whether these should be retaied, upgraded or replaced with ewer techologies is somethig that requires deeper evaluatio for a comprehesive solutio. Should oe use power lie, ZigBee, broadbad or phoe wires will deped o factors like cost, badwidth, security, regulatio, 13

14 existig topology ad home automatio requiremets. Existece of proprietary techologies heightes the challeges. Lack of stadardizatio is goig to remai a real challege at least for some more time. Data Collectio Sesor data from sources i the home etwork such as switches, gas meters, home appliaces, video cameras, electricity meters, ad water meters eed to be cetralized at oe place. Moitorig could typically be of state, temperature, curret, coditio, locatio ad alarms amog other parameters. The format, frequecy ad medium of trasmissio eed to be carefully thought about. Also, there will be scearios where oe eeds to trasfer images, videos ad audios for real-time moitorig ad cotrol. Storage M2M solutio will typically have a sigle itegratio poit. For cetral storage, a cloud-based solutio has a lot of advatages over a o-premise solutio. Cost effectiveess, scalability, 24/7 availability, ad aywhere accessibility seem to favor cloud adoptio. If security aspects ca be completely addressed, the cloud adoptio will become a maistream i M2M implemetatios. Aalytics Most M2M solutios will geerate lots of data. I may cases these will eed to be aalyzed ad acted upo i ear real-time, ad hece, this will create may opportuities for aalytics based solutios. The KPIs for each solutio will be tied to a particular domai. For istace, for Eergy Maagemet, past behaviors, cosumptio patters ad projected eergy savigs might be displayed to the cosumers. Home based health moitorig will require i-house motio detectio, video aalytics ad emergecy alerts to be acted upo as they happe. Security systems will eed to show live video feeds. Very powerful, domai specific ad efficiet aalytics software egies will eed to be custombuilt. This will form the heart of overall system as this is where meaigful ad useful iformatio will be created ad reported. The iformatio might also be used by security services compaies, utility compaies ad health service providers. User Iterfaces A good M2M solutio has to provide graphical ad ituitive user iterfaces. These iterfaces could possibly be through web, tablets, cell phoes, i-home touch screes, keypads, remotes ad Smartphoe. These could be used by customers, techical support persoel ad third party service providers. Home Automatio Solutios at TCS With a view of providig comprehesive home automatio solutios, TCS has developed key assets i the areas of Eergy Maagemet ad Home Etertaimet. A brief overview of some of these assets is provided below: Home Eergy Maagemet TCS has developed platform called Home Utility Maagemet Solutio (HUMS) which provides ecessary compoets that ca be itegrated to backed utility systems. TCS HUMS has the followig features: 14

15 Gateway: It provides a easy device itegratio with ZigBee iterfaces ad ca be extedible with other idustry stadard commuicatio stadards. It has IP based backhaul commuicatio through GSM/CDMS/broadbad to leverage cloud computig. Cotrol: This provides user based remote cotrol as well as local access to home appliaces. Devices ca be cofigured or scheduled to ru at specific times of the day. Uiform Usability: HUMS has a easy to use user iterface which is available o I Home Displays (IHD) ad mobile iteret devices. A portal is available to view eergy related data (curret/historical) for various smart appliaces withi the home. Users ca cofigure, cotrol, ad schedule these devices from withi the home or remotely through a Smartphoe. Aalytics: Real-time ad historical cosumptio data aalysis, behavioral aalysis (What-if situatios), ad device health moitorig ca be viewed. Privacy: It eables the user to cofigure data that ca be shared with the third parties to address market gaps i cosumer privacy area. It uses secure SOAP based access. Figure 6 provides a high-level block of the HUMS solutio. The HUMS has evolved through cross fuctioal expertise withi TCS i the areas of embedded systems, wireless commuicatio, utilities domai ad statisticias specializig i complex evet processig. Utility Backed Systems Cotract Mgmt. Demad Forecast Portal Aalytics TCS Solutio 3rd Party Solutio Cloud Exposed services for Utility $ Service o Demad TCS Hosted MDM & Aalytics Solutio Iteret Coectivity Home Utility Gateway Realtime Aalytics Gateway -Bus HAN Smart Meters & Appliaces wireless Sesors Data Capturig & Appliace Cotrol Meter Retrofittig Smart Meters & Appliaces Figure 6: TCS' Home Automatio Maagemet Solutio 15

16 Home Etertaimet Home Etertaimet ecosystem is leadig the developmet of iteroperability i a world where home users wish to share media cotet betwee growig umbers of digital devices. A user may wat to share photos take from the Smartphoe immediately o the TV without goig through the hassle of dowloadig o home PC the coectig through USB or Fire cable to TV. DLNA is a cross-idustry orgaizatio of leadig cosumer electroics, computig idustry ad mobile device compaies. It promotes wired / wireless iteroperability betwee cosumer devices, mobiles, priters ad PC s. DLNA is based o Uiversal Plug ad Play (UPP) ad creates a bridge for persoal / portable media to flow back ito home etertaimet systems. TCS has developed the followig solutio accelerators for Home Etertaimet: DLNA Digital Media Cotroller (DMC) Software Stack This is a modular ad customizable solutio for DLNA compliat Digital Media Cotroller (DMC). The solutio ca be easily customized as per the ed user requiremet; for example, i-house user might ot wat priter capability i its solutio so it ca be removed from the DMC. Efficiet Software Developmet Kits are also provided for quickly developig DMC solutios. Customers ca beefit from up to 50% reductio i developmet ad testig time. Features of DLNA DMC are: Searchig DLNA Devices amely DMS, DMR, DMPr. Browsig the exposed media from the DMS. Sedig the cotet URL to DMR/DMPr for rederig/pritig. Cotrollig rederer(s) ad priter(s). 2-Box ad 3-Box system usage iteractio model. Features of DLNA DMC 4. Searchig DMPr / DMR Device 5. Sedig Cotet URL 7. Sedig Cotrols to DMPr (Prit) / DMR DMC (TCS Developed) DMPr / DMR 1. Searchig DMS Devices 2. Browsig cotet 3. Selectig cotet DMS 6. Gettig Image Cotet from DMS through URL Figure 7: TCS' DLNA Digital Media Cotroller 16

17 Wireless Digital Home Networkig Solutio TCS has developed a comprehesive digital home etworkig solutio o Adroid based low-power Itel Atom platform. Customers ca beefit from accelerated DLNA solutio buildig for wireless devices. Mai features of the solutio are as follows: Server captures/stores digital cotet (Audio, Video, Image) ad supplies it to DLNA compliat devices i the etwork for playback. Cotroller detects ad displays all DLNA compliat media devices preset i the home etwork. Cotroller allows browsig of media cotet stored o the servers. The solutio is apt for devices, such as, media players, mobile devices, PDAs, digital TVs, digital cameras ad so o. Image Trasfer TV DLNA Complait USB Camera DMS Wireless Network DMP DMC Itel Atom Platform Media Files Digital Home Solutio HTTP 1.0 / 1.1, RTP IPv4 Protocol Suite Wired: 8.2.3i, 8.2.3u. Wireless: a/b/g, Bluetooth Figure 8: TCS' Wireless Digital Home Networkig Solutio 17

18 Summary Machie based iteractios are witessig a growth trajectory across idustries. The challeges are may wherei a umber of iterested parties eed to come together for a implemetatio. Domai kowledge ad techical kowhow are the key requiremets sice a M2M solutio touches upo core processes. The ecosystem is large, quite complex ad very fragmeted. There is o oe size fits all template. System itegrators thus, have a major role to play i the deploymet of a comprehesive ad successful solutio. High Tech customers ca leverage TCS techology stregths, egieerig processes, asset base, strog domai expertise ad alliace etworks to develop successful M2M solutios. TCS strog credetials across egieerig, IT services, applicatio developmet, mobility, ad aalytics help it achieve the ext level of busiess maturity, from a service provider to a trusted M2M solutio parter. Refereces The followig refereces are used i the preparatio of this documet:

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