Desenvolvimento de novos serviços interactivos de vídeo para smart homes

Abstract

Being the television the most popular electronic media and entertainment device in the world, naturally was created a bond between the Internet and the television content that daily to the homes of more the a billion people globally. TV stations are always looking for new ways to engage and grab the audience and the manufacturers replied with the Smart TVs, able to provide dynamic applications with interactive content. Another market in strong ascension is the smart homes, filled with sensors and actuators aiming to centralize the domestic tasks, increasing the user's confort. This dissertation relies on these two themes, proposing the creation of a solution capable of receiving information from several sensors installed in a smart home, inject it in the domestic television signal and culminating with the development of an Smart TV application able to read the data from the sensors and show it on the screen in a simple, intuitive and dynamic way. The main contribution involves the injection of personalized data in the television signal, demanding the creation of a specific metadata profile for this case.