Paris Research & Innovation Center

Paris Research & Innovation Center
1 rue Jeanne d’Arc
92443 Issy les Moulineaux cedex
France
Paris R&I Center Manager: Pieter Van Der Linden

Technicolor’s Paris Research & Innovation Center collaborates with the worldwide research community to develop innovations for Network Technologies, Cloud Computing, Content Delivery, Home Automation and more.

A leading innovator in network technologies and content delivery, Technicolor established the Paris Research & Innovation (R&I) Center in 2005 to build the new communication infrastructure for the future digital home.  Since its inception the center’s growing number of scientists have been working closely with the worldwide academic and research communities on long-term exploratory projects devoted to revolutionizing the digital home. The Center concentrates on leveraging the capabilities of networked devices to develop advanced communications services paving the way to  new and efficient value-added services on the Internet.

The Home Network is the underlying theme of the research and development actions undertaken by the center. The R&I Center is focused on identifying the tremendous opportunities for innovation at Technicolor in such areas as managing and monitoring networks and services, as well as distributing and organizing information flows in the home and beyond. As part of our Content Discovery and Connected Home Research and Innovation projects, the Paris Center designs tools and methods for organizing, monitoring, distribution and access to digital information across the home. The main areas of expertise are:

• Home Service Delivery Platform: The “Service Hosting Home Gateway” initiative aims at transforming gateways and other home networking devices (e.g.: Set Top Box, NAS, remote control …) into a powerful solution for hosting services and delivering content over the Internet.  The home network devices become an active component of end-user services such as content distribution, home surveillance, e-health, energy monitoring, and home automation. By leveraging local processing power and local storage, this architecture complements Cloud Computing services by increasing processing efficiency, reduction of energy consumption, privacy protection and better use of network bandwidth.   [More]

• Home Network Monitoring and Big Data Fusion: For optimizing usage of resources (such as bandwidth, energy, water, computing power, content), detecting and troubleshooting problems and predicting future needs, a detailed picture is required of past and present behavior. Initially started as pure networking measurement tools, this activity has evolved into a generic data aggregation and exploitation platform. The monitoring activity will allow end-users to understand and control the usage of resources and will allow services operators to better anticipate requests, and possibly target offers towards those consumers who are most likely to need them.  Cornerstone of the technology developed is the capacity to combine various data sources. [More]

• Home Automation and Energy Management: Several trends concur to put the home at the center of a wave of major innovations:
  • As western populations are aging, the need for home care services for senior people is expected to increase dramatically,
  • With the depletion of natural resources and the climate changes, controlling and reducing the energy consumption of the homes will be a central challenge.

  On top of the monitoring tools described above allowing to infer trends and manage possible savings, the center has developed techniques for disaggregating energy consumption and models for optimizing use of batteries for energy load shedding. [More]

• Social networking and Privacy Protection: Social Networks, are evolving into a preferred means for disseminating information and content. For increasing fluidity of dissemination, the center studies means to incentivize viral propagation of information. Meanwhile, one of the potential risks of integrating digital services on the Internet stems from exposing private information to eavesdroppers or communicating too much sensitive information to digital services providers. The center is developing ways to improve privacy protection, and guard against loss of privacy through such means as a strict separation of sensitive information between application providers and advanced methods to hide household consumption habits and preferences from eavesdropping. [More]