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| - | The adoption of broadband internet and the proliferation of wifi-connected devices such as smartphones, web tablets, and netbooks has resulted in the computer network becoming a standard feature of the modern home. However, there are a number of ways in which the modern householder is yet to receive the benefits of this home networking revolution.
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| - | OpenHome is an independent body committed to resolving this through the design, implementation, and promotion of open standards. It stimulates innovation by transforming the home network into a rich environment for applications that fit into the way people live.
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| - | = ohOs = | + | == ohMedia == |
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| - | The modern user of a personal computer or portable computing device is familiar with the process of installing applications according to their own personal taste or need. But there are a number of types of application that do not fit neatly into this pattern of deployment and use.
| + | [[ohMedia|ohMedia]] is an open standard that allows the seamless interaction of media within your home. |
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| - | The OpenHome Operating System, ohOs, fills this gap by providing a place to deploy software that can be used not only by a single individual but by all the members of a household. And in doing so ohOs opens the way for applications that:
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| - | * Allow householders to access and control a wide range of domestic appliances, such as lights, media players, and security cameras, organized from the perspective of the home as a whole.
| + | [[ohNet|ohNet]] is a modern cross platform networking stack. |
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| - | [Illustration of someone controlling lights using an iPad]
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| - | * Allow householders to view, share, and maintain structured information that is meaningful to the home as a whole, such as a calendars, family address books, or photo albums.
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| - | [Illustration of someone putting doctors appointment into family calendar]
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| - | * Provide opportunities for creativity and fun within a shared family or other domestic setting.
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| - | [Illustration of more than one person jointly doing a crossword?]
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| - | * Provide rich, user-friendly, non-expert control over otherwise technically challenging networking facilities, such as parental control over internet access.
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| - | [Illustration of a child unable to access the internet at night]
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| - | * Provide a secure domain for archiving and messaging with all data preserved within the boundary of the domestic network.
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| - | [Illustration of someone storing the code for a safe?]
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| - | ohOs achieves this by providing lightweight, always-on, networked computing with applications that are easily deployed from a readily accessible App Store. More details are avaliable here.
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| - | = ohMedia =
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| - | UPnP AV is the most successful non-OpenHome open standard that attempt
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