2024.01.22 – Reliability is the key to success in consumer markets
Reliability is the key to success in consumer markets
2024.01.22 – MobileEurope
Progress with smart homes?
According to the Omdia report, 85% of respondents said they had already deployed the Broadband Forum’s User Services Platform (USP) or plan to within the next six to 18 months. USP was developed to help deploy, implement and manage the smart home. It includes a data model, architecture and communications protocol to support the remote management of devices, such as Wi-Fi home gateways, independent of the device’s manufacturer.
More than half (58% of respondents) said they use or will use USP to manage Wi-Fi. Other popular uses include premium customer support, cybersecurity, voice assistants, and energy management.
All respondents agreed that reduced fragmentation and proprietary technology at the chipset, customer premises equipment and software platform level would drive greater innovation. They also thought it would lead to faster onboarding of value-added services.
Michael Philpott, Research Director – Service Provider Consumer, at Omdia observed, “A key barrier of time to market for new services from network operators has been the integration time with devices and platforms that may use different vendors and proprietary technologies.
“Some network operators may opt for a ‘best of breed’ strategy to develop their own, bespoke, in-home platform to take full control over the ecosystem they create and give them the best chance of differentiation in the market. Adopting a fully open standards model at both the lower and higher layers can ensure that both applications and software, or hardware.
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