FIGARO consortium members join forces to strengthen Europe's position in Future Internet technologies and services
Guavus is a proud member of the FIGARO consortium and shares its goal to enhance the home gateway to make compelling services available on all relevant devices in the home.
January 14, 2011
Paris (France), 14 January 2011 - The European FP7 project FIGARO - Future Internet Gateway-based Architecture of Residential Networks - held its kick-off meeting in Paris at the end of 2010. FIGARO is a strong and committed industry-driven consortium of leading European device manufacturers, operators, universities, research institutes and software companies. It focuses on investigating and demonstrating how the home gateway[1] can strengthen the Future Internet, by enabling high quality multimedia experience as well as critical applications - such as remote care and energy management - which will provide considerable advantages both to industry and end-users.
FIGARO aims to design a network and service architecture making very distinctive services available on all relevant devices in the home. Efficiency and sustainability are ensured by allowing service providers from different sectors to collaborate using the same networks and service platforms. More specifically, this project is based on federation and interoperability: how to create value from having devices, networks and also the home gateways themselves cooperate in a seamless way. Moreover, FIGARO investigates possible roles for gateways in cloud computing, content management, intelligent home network monitoring, and the integration of home automation technology in broadband architectures.
The FIGARO consortium includes the following partners: Technicolor (France), Martel GmbH (Switzerland), Université Pierre et Marie Curie (France), Politecnico di Torino (Italy), Telefonica I+D (Spain), Eurecom (France), Philips Consumer Lifestyle (The Netherlands), TNO (The Netherlands), Guavus Network Systems (India), Home Automation Europe (The Netherlands) and University of Waterloo (Canada). Led by Technicolor, this project will run from October 2010 until October 2013 and is supported by the European Commission with 5 Million Euros (ICT Grant No. 258 378).
As an active partner, Guavus brings its industry leading breaking technical know-how in streaming analytics and data mining to the FIGARO consortium and will investigate how to make home gateways and networks smarter with real-time correlation of M2M events.
About Guavus
Guavus, Inc. provides managed solutions for dynamic decision making with the unique ability to fuse massive volumes of up-to-the-minute data from multiple sources to empower timely and accurate insights. Fortune 500 customers, including tier 1 communications service providers, rely on Guavus to make decisions that impact their bottom line by harnessing the massive amounts of data generated by devices and networks. The company is based in Santa Clara, CA with presence in India and Europe. Investors include Artiman Ventures and Sofinnova Ventures. For more information, please visit www.guavus.com.
[1] Also referred to as residential gateway, home router or broadband modem.