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WIRED UBIQUITY Wiseriver scheme offers a platform that approaches wireless in easiness of deploying new equipment and systems. One of the densely located Wiseriver Access Nodes is always available in the vicinity of the piece of equipment to be connected. The variety of interfaces in the Access Nodes covers the most common standard interfaces. The aggregate transmission capacity is 350 Megabit/second in an apartment/office. The maximum number of Access Nodes, as well as that of different applications, is around one hundred. As an example, light control of the apartment/office requires a capacity of 64 to 256 kilobit/second. This capacity requirement is less than one thousandth of the total available capacity. Wiseriver does not waste capacity: There are no jams or latencies caused various applications struggling of the capacity, because each application has its own independent transmission resource. Wiseriver offers mainly the wire level services for various applications but it also has microprocessor capacity. Thus, it can be the controller of various systems: light control, heating and ventilation, alarms, etc. As it also provides broadband data connections it is a genuinely universal and comprehensive. Access Nodes are located densely in each space of the premises. This entitles the denomination ubiquitous. The savings in cabling is significant. In large houses it can be far more than 50 percent.	MARKET DRIVERS Based on surveys made by major companies the key market drivers for Smart Home solutions are energy saving, safety and convenience. Security and energy saving proved to be the most popular, and energy saving was considered by 55 % of the people to be the number one driver. One third of the population is very interested in smart home solutions for their home in a survey carried out in Sweden. Another third is somewhat interested and the rest don’t want to see any more technology at their homes. Wiseriver provides a platform for energy saving with maximum convenience, for accurate control of all factors of interior climate and lays the basis for systems that assist elderly people to be able to cope longer in their own homes. Convenience includes also that loudspeaker wires, etc., do not lie on the floor. Wiseriver provides the connection point at the nearest Access Node. VALUES The access to building services is not open. The level of equipment as well as the technology are chosen in an early stage of planning and sets the guidelines for a very long period. Wiseriver motto is that there should be equality between deliverers also in the world of building services.
SAVINGS AND TRANSFORMABILITY A single medium that embraces all communications needs in a building is inherently a concept that saves money in all levels: in planning, in installing, in components. Equipment, transducers, actuators are connected directly to Access Nodes. No interfacing modules are needed. Establishing a new application on Wiseriver requires connecting the associated equipment to the nearest Access Node and after that everything is a sequence of software steps. It is clear that modifications are utterly easy to accomplish when they are needed. In context of changing the use of the premises the need of modifying various systems may be comprehensive. In office buildings the easiness to make modifications is of significant importance. Wiseriver transmits signals transparently. It means that the protocol (e.g., TCP/IP) is not touched along the transmission path. This allows that also transmission protocols that will be invented in the future can be transmitted through Wiseriver.