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"Innovative E-Box: Your Smart Home Info Hub for Weather, Entertainment, and Communication"

The E-Box is a versatile wireless information display designed to keep your home connected and informed. Enjoy local weather forecasts, family pictures, and important notifications on a high-end color LCD screen with touch capabilities. The unobtrusive design allows for personalized information delivery exactly when and where you need it—whether it’s in the kitchen, living room, or bedroom. Features include weather alerts, Caller ID, music streaming, and SMS notifications, along with storage options exceeding 30GB. It's perfect for simplifying communications and enhancing home automation.

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"Innovative E-Box: Your Smart Home Info Hub for Weather, Entertainment, and Communication"

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  1. e-box Work shop

  2. InfoPanels Local weather forecast Onsala Sunny until 14. 00, rain expected later [weather] [tv] [mail] [music] [home] Low cost LCD, simple, low bandwidth Wireless e-box Internet e-box Mail Weather Pictures Music Home TV Alarm Shopping Calendar High end color LCD with Touch Screen Operator Provider

  3. InfoPanels • We need clients to show the information related to the services • Low cost wireless LCD panel • High end color panel with family pictures • Carousel with information • High priority info: • Alarms, weather changes, • Location: Kitchen, living room, bed room

  4. Why Do I Want to Have it? • No need to carry a device in the house • Unobtrusive • Personalized information • when I need it • where I need it • Control panel for bundles • Cost per display • LCD: ~ $150, Color LCD: ~ $250

  5. Operator • Personalized information • Local weather with warnings for rain, storm • Caller ID with name instead of number • Mailbox (you have mail) • SMS • ... • Advertising (limited) • Conduit for providers

  6. ERICSSON • Selling Hardware • Displays • e-box • Frameworks for services and management

  7. Storage Unit • Provide maximum storage >30 Gb • (Optional) Interfaces to • PC (documents, mail) • Audio/Video Recording • Printers, Scanners, Digital camera's • Provide backup over the net • Data management software • Allow bundles to access relevant data

  8. Storage 3pp services • Intelligent Electronic Program Guide • Time shifting • Always records for you the latest news • Indexing, sorting, associating and searching • Forget-me-not • Find relevant associations in the background • Subscriptions • Top 10, new editions of favorite pop stars

  9. Why • User • Reliable fast huge storage • 3-party services can work with interesting data • Operator • Paid services like backup, subscriptions • ERICSSON • Equipment • Infrastructure

  10. Inter[net]com e-box Wireless Internet Inter[net]com e-box Wireless Operator Inter[net]com

  11. Inter[net]com • Ease of use • Point to Point, No setup • Works like any other intercom, but world wide • Baby watch • Voice mail • Family intercom • Talk to your mother with 1 press of the button • Extend with home automation control

  12. Why • Operator, paid services • Directory service • Multi party setup • Voice mail • Integration with IP telephony • ERICSSON • Equipment, Infrastructure • Directory software

  13. Wireless speakers Bed room Wireless Internet e-box Living room Operator Operator Providers Kitchen

  14. Wireless speakers • e-box should control n-pairs of wireless speakers • bed room, living room, kitchen • Music from Internet or storage • Internet radio, Napster, www.mp3.com • Messages: 'You have mail' • No more audio equipment • Certificate in sealed component • Encrypted digital in, analog out

  15. Why • Operator • Provide encrypted music at lower cost because it cannot be digitally copied • Cool service • ERICSSON • Equipment • Infrastructure • Patent?

  16. Deployment models • Controlled • Well known ERICSSON Reference model • Customer lock in needed • Central management • Open • Current PC model • Services loaded from anywhere

  17. Controlled Deployment • Advantages • Defined reliability • Ease of use and mind for customer • Immediate scaling • Payment model • Disadvantages • Central management is bottleneck for innovation • Very difficult market start because too many chicken-egg problems

  18. Open model • Advantages • Easier to have real innovation • No customer lock in, more customer choice • Could start yesterday • Disadvantages • Incompatibilities between services • User needs to be more technical savy • Slower scaling (diversification) • Advertising no good payment model in the long run

  19. Provocations • Openness will succeed because before manufacturers, providers and operators have their act together, this model is already in place • The closed model will win because the open model will be so messy that customers want the reliability of the telephone system • The internet is completely unlike the telephony system. Lack of lock in makes operators like today infeasible in the long run.

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