EXPERIMEDIA technical overview

1. Technical Overview
Open Call Information Teleconference
4 July 2012
Stephen C Phillips & Simon Crowle, IT Innovation
(scp@it-innovation.soton.ac.uk)

2. EXPERIMEDIA Components
 The functional pieces of software in
EXPERIMEDIA have been grouped into logical
“components”
 Components
 Provide extension points
 Interface to each other
 Will interface to your technology
 Can be adapted to fit your technology or have existing
parts replaced
 Experiments drive the evolution of the facility
 Pushing the components to provide new capabilities
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3. Key
Extension point
Extension point
Content interface
Configuration
Content Interface
ECC Interface
Sub-component
Monitoring
ECC Interface
Security
ECC Interface
Sub-component
Component name
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4. Social Content Component
 Access multiple social network services (SNS)
 Single API
 Retrieve / Post / Intercept
 Mobile device support
 Schedule SNS searches
 Store SNS data
 Analyse SNS data
 Provide SNS data to optimise and adapt other
components
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5. Social Content Component (SCC)
SN API Social Analytics plugins
Extension point Extension point
Configuration
Common Social Social Network
Network Interface Analytics ECC Interface
SN Publish
Content Interface
 Common Social Network Monitoring
Interface ECC Interface
 ICCS / NTUA SN Content Mgmt
Content Interface SN Data
 SocialAuth Security
Management
 Open source project ECC Interface
 http://code.google.com/p/socia
lauth/
 Data model from SocIoS FP7 SCC
project
 http://www.sociosproject.eu/
 Social Network Analytics
 IT Innovation
 WeGov FP7 project
 http://www.wegov-project.eu/
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6. Audio Visual Content Component
 Video acquisition
 Metadata acquisition (extension point)
 Video transcoding
 Video streaming (with PVR functionality)
 User-generated video capture and streaming
 Video analytics (extension point)
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7. Audio Visual Content Component (AVCC)
Data acquisition Video Analytics plugins
 Video technologies Extension point Extension point
 ATOS
 In-house tech
SN Content Mgmt Live metadata
 Wowza Video Analytics
Content Interface
Acquisition Mgmt
 User generated video
streaming / editing Configuration
Video Acquisition
 Interactive Institute Input Manager Transcoder ECC Interface
Content Interface
 MoreVideo!
 http://www.tii.se/proj Monitoring
ects/Morevideo! UGC Content Mgmt User Generated Multi-quality ECC Interface
Video Streaming Management
Content Interface
Security
ECC Interface
Device Adaption Time-shift
Manager Manager
Recorder/
Media distribution
VOD Manager
AV Out
Content Interface
Media Content Mgmt AV Repository
Content Interface
AVCC
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8. Pervasive Content Component
 Augmented reality
 Display points of interest (POI) on mobile device
 Display 3D models
 Display alternative views
 POI data management
 Location tracking
 Track groups of people in real-time
 QoE monitoring
 Design and execute real-life “games”
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9. Pervasive Content Component (PCC)
 Live games SN Content Mgmt
 Interactive Institute Content Interface
 Creator Location Tracking
 http://www.slideshare.net/kallep/per
vasive-game-development-with-the- Location acquisition
creator Content Interface
 Location tracking Live Games
Configuration
 Interactive Institute External game services ECC Interface
 Tracker Content Interface
 QoE measurement Monitoring
 Interactive Institute Internal game services
ECC Interface
 Babylon Content Interface
 http://www.mobile-
life.org/upload/publication/88/origina UX acquisition Security
QoE measurement
l/babylon.final.2.pdf
Content Interface ECC Interface
 POI data management
 Infonova R6
POI data Mgmt
 http://infonova.com/7_20_ENG_HTM POI Data
Content Interface Management
L.htm
 Augmented reality
AR model data
 JRS
Content Interface
 http://www2.ffg.at/verkehr/projekte. Augmented Reality
php?id=745&lang=de&browse=progra Platform
mm AR Content Mgmt
Content Interface
PCC
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10. Experiment Content Component
 Specify an experiment
 Security correctness verification
 Deploy software/services and VMs
 Configure software/services
 Monitor software/services
 Experiment resource status
 Infrastructure/application experimental metrics
 QoS, QoE, QoC
 Manage experiment data
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11. Experiment Content Component (ECC)
 Experiment security
correctness
 IT Innovation Experiment Security
Correctness (ESC)
 SAM tool from FP7 SERSCIS
 http://www.serscis.eu/sam/
 Deploy and configure Configuration
 IT Innovation ECC Interface
 0install tool Experiment
Experiment
 http://0install.net/ Deploy & Configure
AMQP Bus
Specification (ES)
Monitoring (EDC)
 Experiment monitoring ECC Interface
 RabbitMQ
 http://www.rabbitmq.com/
Security
ECC Interface
Experiment Experiment Data
Monitoring (EM) Management (EDM)
ECC
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12. Example
Your technology
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