IP Telephony phone based applications
Posted on November 14, 2007
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Cisco is a great example of an IP Telephony provider that has strongly promoted third parties to build applications for IP Phones. This in part has been achieved through production of Software Development Kits. It has also been achieved by having a large installed base of XML enabled phones.
A specific example that I have personally been involved with is the implementation of an audio visual room control system. The above screen shot shows the interface. Users within this banking client could control everything from the lights, projector content source, and change channels on an IPTV enabled set-top box by using the touch screen on the phone.
The overall solution used products from Pivod (for the XML applications), Starbak (for the IPTV content delivery) and from AMX (the room control systems which were IP enabled).
The end result was a very slick room control system that utilised existing hardware (i.e the phone) as the interface. No more lost remote controls or separate touch panels to maintain.
There were challenges in implementing this project, all were primarily related to integrating the different products (Pivod, AMX, Starbak) to form one solution.
Other examples of XML applications include; world clock, weather forecast, stock ticker, room booking systems and hotel room service menus. For a video demo of a surveillance XML application follow this link to Cisco.com.
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