To fully experience the benefits of Connected Living, all these connected devices need to be very easy to use. We have implemented three features in our Connected Living solutions to enhance the user experience: ‘Follow-me’ mode for watching TV, content aggregation and remote programming.

‘Follow-me’ mode for watching TV

A typical Connected Living situation is when you are watching a program in one room and want to temporarily ‘pause’ the program and continue watching it in another room (e.g. start in the living room and then continue later in the bedroom). Our Connected Living solutions offer this functionality with one single button.

Content aggregation

With digital video and audio content available on multiple devices in the house, you could eventually have problems simply finding the right content on the right device. Most consumers are typically not even interested in the server at all. So in Connected Living, the details of servers are hidden from the end-user. When audio content is requested, all audio-files in the home-network are displayed irrespective of where they are stored.

Remote programming

If you don’t need to know where your digital content is stored to be able to access it, then you should also be able to program your devices from any Connected Living client. Or even from outside the house using an internet-connected device such as a laptop, PDA or cell phone.