IT R&D programme : Volume V: Peripheral systems, business systems and house automation; summaries of Esprit projects, Esprit II and III

This book gives an overview of the work carried out in the PSBS and HA area of the Esprit programme. Each project and action is described in a standard format covering its aims, approach and methods, progress and results and potential impact. In each case details of participating organizations are provided together with contact point. The peripheral systems, business systems and house automation area of Esprit is concerned with developing the strengths of European industry in IT systems designed to support office, business and home applications. Work in this area is determined by the evolving requirements of users. It aims to develop open integrated solutions to users' requirements in a variety of application domains in inter-related fields: professional and business applications, personal high-volume electronics, and home systems. The solutions, integrating enabling innovative multimedia and peripheral technologies, though generic in nature, are illustrated with specific demonstrators or prototypes; their range of applicability is well beyond the boundaries of the test-bed on which their effectiveness is proved. This updated edition incorporates progress and results reported since late 1992 and contains the first descriptions of the many new projects launched following the Esprit III call for proposals in 1993.