Nokia Connected Home

There are many electronic devices at home like computers, TVs, stereos, printers and servers. Your Nokia mobile can today wirelessly control and access all of these home electronics.

You can already view and share photos and video with your family and friends; wirelessly displaying them from your Nokia mobile to your large living room TV. After viewing, you might want to print the best photos; just press “print” on your mobile and the photos are sent wirelessly to your home printer located in the next room.

Nokia mobile devices control the media flow between PCs and consumer electronics devices at home.

When you go to a party at your friend’s house, you can bring the party alive with your favorite music, playing it wirelessly from your Nokia mobile through your friend’s Hi-Fi system. You can even wirelessly pump-up the volume level and manage the playlist directly from your mobile device.

This is all possible today using Nokia’s home media capabilities to manage your home devices, retrieve your media from your PC, view on a TV, play on your Hi-Fi, and print. Find out more about Nokia Home Media.

Home Media is available on Nokia N78, Nokia 81, Nokia N82 , Nokia N95 , Nokia N95 8GB , and on the announced Nokia N79 , Nokia N85 and Nokia N96.

You can also have your mobile automatically synchronize with your media as you enter your home. This way your mobile media is always safe at home, and available to you and other family members. Nokia Home Media Sync connects to your home media storage to backup and synchronize. Find out more about Nokia Home Sync.

Home Media Sync is available on Nokia N78, and on the announced Nokia N79 , Nokia N85,and Nokia N96.

Soon using your Nokia mobile, you will also be able to intuitively browse, retrieve and synchronize your entire home media library remotely, no matter where you are in the world.

To connect to your home you need two things: connectivity and interoperability between devices. The network technology to achieve connectivity to your home electronics is UPnP (Universal Plug’n Play) and device interoperability is achieved through DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) certification.

UPnP and DLNA are open technology standards. This will ensure that your Nokia mobile works with the greatest possible number of home electronics.

Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) provides automated IP network configuration, device discovery and service discovery, while Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) works to solve the application level interoperability issues, such as defining the media formats (codecs), the media transport methods and link protection guidelines.

On top of this infrastructure, Nokia is developing applications and services, aiming at providing a seamless user experience via both your Nokia mobile and personal computer.

Nokia is researching smart home technologies to put you in full control of your home so that you can:

• Check who’s ringing your doorbell when you’re out shopping;
• Switch off the iron when you remember leaving it on your way to work;
• Open the door to your daughter who forgot the key while running to the school bus in the morning.

Nokia’s smart home development is focused on delivering a home management framework, so that any electrical home device – digital camera, doorbell, cooker – can be connected. The framework will enable you to connect and control your home. To learn more about our Smart Space research which smart and extended home visit Nokia Research Center.