3CS

Zinadoo

Zinadoo advances the state of the art in the mobile content and services domain, by creating a Web 2.0 service that enables end-users to “get mobile” – use the Internet to create mobile web-sites and mobile value added services such as SMS (Short Message Service), MMS (Multimedia Message Services), blogs, LBS (Location Base Services), video and e-mail. Zinadoo will enhance these services by creating deep interconnections with mobile Operator’s mobile portals and Service Delivery Platforms (SDP) via OSA/Parlay; and Zinadoo will also leverage the growth of key emerging Web 2.0 mobile services such as Google Local, Google Base, Google Mobile, MSN mobile and Yahoo mobile.

Zinadoo is funded by Enterprise Ireland under the Commercialisation Fund - Technology Development programme.

Mr. Barry Downes, Centre Director, 3CS

Barry Downes has over 16 years experience in the IT and Telecommunications industry and took up the position of 3CS Centre Director in January 2006. Barry is also the Commercial Director of the Telecommunications Software and Systems Group (TSSG) at WIT. Before this Barry held senior management positions in product development in the USA, professional services in Europe and most recently in research in Europe. Barry has delivered multimillion Euro projects to some of the world’s largest organisations and as TSSG’s Commercial Director he has led the development of the TSSG from a twenty person organisation focused on the EU’s IST programme, to an eighty person basic, applied and commercially focused Research Centre. Barry graduated from the Smurfit School of Business, University College Dublin (UCD) with a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A). Barry also holds an Advanced Management Diploma from UCD and a BSc. in Applied Computing from the Waterford Institute of Technology. Since joining the TSSG in 2004 Barry has led the development of TSSG Innovation and Development from three to sixty staff, brought in Euro 6.35 million in direct funding, spun off three campus companies and completed five technology transfer projects. Since starting the 3CS in 2006, Barry has grown the centre to a forty person applied research centre focused on one of the key challenges for Industry – convergence.

FeedHenry

3CS is developing a converged services platform for feed (RSS/Atom) services called FeedHenry. FeedHenry provides information syndication solutions to network-operators and end-users. Our goal is to provide critical, timely information to users on any device. This is achieved by leveraging the streams of information that many websites are now providing through the technology of feeds (also known as RSS). The core offering consists of a scalable information store which is accessible to query and analysis systems through a Service Orientated Architecture (SOA).

FeedHenry will soon be be opening a public beta program - if you would like to register for this program, please register your interest here

MeyMode – Context aware Information Syndication for IPTV

The MeyMode project is using the FeedHenry converged services platform to provide context aware RSS/ATOM information to IPTV viewers. This project is funded by Enterprise Ireland under the Commercialisation Fund – Proof of Concept programme.

UGetMobile

UGetMobile advances the state of the art in the mobile content and services domain, by creating a Web 2.0 service that enables end-users to “get mobile” – use the Internet to create mobile web-sites and mobile value added services such as SMS (Short Message Service), MMS (Multimedia Message Services), blogs, LBS (Location Base Services), video and e-mail. UGetMobile will enhance these services by creating deep interconnections with mobile Operator’s mobile portals and Service Delivery Platforms (SDP) via OSA/Parlay; and UGetMobile will also leverage the growth of key emerging Web 2.0 mobile services such as Google Local, Google Base, Google Mobile, MSN mobile and Yahoo mobile.

UGetMobile is funded by Enterprise Ireland under the Commercialisation Fund - Technology Development programme.

Impulse – Innovation Partnership with Hash 6

This project is a collaborate research and development programme funded under Enterprise Ireland’s Innovation Partners programme. The details of this project are currently confidential.

m-Mag – Mobile Magazines

This m-Mag project is an EU eTEN programme that is currently undertaking a market validation of a trans-European mobile service for SMEs called m-Mag. mMag uses the metaphor of the “mobile magazine” to simplify the process of creating mBusiness services for SMEs. An mMag mobile magazine is a next generation mobile service that is indirectly made available from a mobile operator’s portal (e.g. Vodafone Live or O2 Active), that is integrated with value added mobile data services such as Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS), Short Message Service (SMS) and Location Based Services (LBS), and uses the operator’s billing capabilities to charge consumers for access to mobile services.

The mMag service is comprised of three major subsystems; a) Magazine Studio, b) Operator Integrator and c) the mMag portal. The Magazine Studio enables SME users to, through a simple set of wizards and templates create a mobile website. Through the use of the Operator Integrator the SME can add Value Added Services, such as LBS, MMS and SMS, which normally require direct network integration, to its mobile content. And through the use of the mMag portal they are able to host this content. This mMag portal is linked to numerous network operators thus providing the SME with an easy link into many networks, and providing the network operators with many services.

This project is funded through the European Commission’s eTEN programme. The project partners are Waterford Institute of Technology (Ireland), AePONA Ltd. (UK), The Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS (Germany), Telefonica I & D (Spain), Aceno Mobile Services Ltd. (Ireland), and OTEplus (Greece).

IMAware - Context Aware Instant Messaging Services

This project aims to provide Instant Messaging (IM) users with contextually-aware IM-enabled services that adapt their responses and behaviour as a result of changes in the user’s environment or current situation (e.g. when a user picks up a phone their status becomes “busy”, or when a patient lies down their status changes to “offline”).

It aims to improve the current system of user presence / status determination by using information gathered from the environment to provide a more accurate and descriptive estimation of the user’s availability.

This project is funded under the Enterprise Ireland Commercialisation Fund – Proof of Concept.

Ultimate - Universal Language Translation Instant Messaging Service (ULTIMate)

This project aims to provide Instant Messaging (IM) users with the ability to seamlessly communicate with one another irrespective of their native languages. Parties involved in an IM conversation will be able to send messages in their spoken language and have them instantly translated into the native language of the recipient(s). At its most basic it will involve communicating with an automated Instant Messaging contact for phrase translation, and at its most advanced it will involve communicating with a service that acts as a mediator between parties involved in a real-time multi-protocol, multi-user, multi-language communications session. This project is funded through the Enterprise Ireland Commercialisation Fund – Proof of Concept programme.

InfinitIM - Universal IMS Communicator

InfinitIM advances the state of the art in IP Multimedia Subsystems (IMS) based communications by developing and bringing to market a universal IMS communicator, and service deployment framework that enables Telecommunications Operators to rapidly deploy communications services and value added IMS services. InfinitIM provides:

an application server that provides communication services, such as VoIP, Video and IM, based on the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), across heterogeneous networks and platforms (PC, mobile, IPTV) and gives operators access to them through an Application Programmer’s Interface (API);
a client application, enabling these communication services (via the application server); and
a lightweight server framework that enables Communication Service Providers (CSP) to create, provision, deploy and manage these communication services through the API.

The project is funded through the European Commission Framework Programme 6 Integrated Project, Daidalos, currently in its second phase. 3CS recently demonstrated InfinitIM at 3GSM, CTIA, and GlobalComm with BEA Systems Inc.

IMEnabled - A Service to Facilitate the IM Enabling of eGovernment Services

The IMEnabled project is undertaking a market validation of a trans-European service for eGovernment service providers called Instant Messaging Information Service (IMIS). IMIS lets eGovernment service providers present their eServices over several Instant Messaging (IM) provider networks, enabling service provision over a new cost effective communications channel, thus improving take-up of public eServices by citizens and businesses alike. This IMIS system has broad application across the European economy, but to support initial market validation of the technology the project team has focussed on validation with eGovernment service providers so that they can rapidly and cost effectively create IM Enabled eGovernment services to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of public administrations.

This project is funded through the European Commission’s eTEN programme. The project partners are Fullsix (France and Italy), ICPP (Germany), PSI (Germany), City of Torino (Italy), Ville of Lomme (Italy), City of Waterford (Ireland)

VIDSHARE – enabling peer-to-peer sharing of multimedia content across IMS networks.

The VIDSHARE project is researching and developing a management platform for Peer-to-Peer multimedia asset distribution across IMS networks with Intellectual Property Management and Protection (IPMP). A key objective of the project is to build an architecture that is interoperable with different content management and IPMP solutions. The platform will a support a number of business models including rights based personal multimedia sharing, distributed multimedia management for corporations, and the retailing of video content including the superdistribution of content.
The VIDSHARE project will address key issues in the multimedia content delivery chain encompassing content delivery and consumption through a peer-to-peer platform that is interoperable with content provider systems and which enforces content provider’s Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) through an Intellectual Property Management and Protection (IPMP) framework. VIDSHARE is funded by Enterprise Ireland under the Commercialisation Fund - Technology Development programme.

3DIM - Three Dimensional Instant Messaging

3DIM aims to splice the functionality available in standard Instant Messaging clients, with standard 3D web technologies to facilitate:

the creation and deployment of interactive 3D environments over IM.
the utilisation of IM clients to access these environments.
the interaction with other users and autonomous agents within the 3DIM environments.

3DIM is funded by Enterprise Ireland through the Commercialisation Fund - Technology Development programme.

Research

3CS undertakes applied research that has particular relevance to Industry in the area of converged Internet and Telecommunications Services. 3CS has three major areas where it is actively working at the moment:

IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) services
Information Syndication (RSS/ATOM) systems, architectures and services
Mobile and multimedia frameworks and services.

IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) Services

The IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) is a standardised Next Generation Networking (NGN) architecture for telecommunications operators that want to provide converged services. The aim of IMS is not only to provide new services but all the services, current and future, that the Internet provides. It has at its core a 3GPP standardised implementation of SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) and support for IPv6.

3CS has a number of active IMS services projects including:

Information Syndication (RSS/ATOM) systems, architectures and services

3CS is developing a converged services platform for feed (RSS/Atom) services. This platform is called Feed Henry. Feed Henry is currently undergoing alpha testing – if you would like to register for an invitation to be a beta customer please do so here FeedHenry Beta Programme Feed Henry’s beta programme will include a feed aggregation and service delivery platform and a Web based Feed reader. Work is underway on extending feed Henry to Mobile and IPTV and also additional feed based applications.

Mobile and multimedia frameworks and services.

3CS has three major projects in the area of mobile multimedia services

Technology Transfer

3CS works with Industry in a variety of ways, including: collaborative research and development projects; and also through the transfer of 3CS’s researched technology to companies. The sections below outline some of our technology transfers to date and also Enterprise Ireland’s support for collaborative research and development.

Work with 3CS through Enterprise Irelands Innovation Partners programme

The Innovation Partners programme provides financial support to encourage your company to undertake research projects with 3CS.

If your company would like:

The opportunity to tap into the research infrastructure of 3CS
A new perspective for your business through collaboration
A cost-effective approach to innovative product and process development

then the Enterprise Ireland's Innovation Partners Initiative may suit your needs.

3CS Current Technology Transfers

	Nubiq Ltd. – 3CS is licensing technology to enable Nubiq to launch zinadoo.
	Hash 6 – 3CS is licensing technology to enable Hash 6 to launch mobile multimedia solutions.

Future Technology Transfer

3CS has a number of active technology projects that will result in technologies that will be of benefit to industry.

For more information contact:

Barry Downes
Email: Barry Downes
Phone: +353 51 302932