Aspects of Entertainment Distribution in an Intelligent Home Environment

TL;DR

This paper explores a simple, cost-effective home entertainment distribution system using conventional cabling, demonstrating its performance close to traditional data services within an intelligent home environment.

Contribution

It implements and tests a straightforward architecture for entertainment distribution in smart homes using CATV coaxial and Ethernet cabling.

Findings

Performance comparable to traditional data services

Cost-effective architecture suitable for intelligent homes

Feasible implementation with conventional cabling

Abstract

The paper presents an implementation and tests of a simple home entertainment distribution architecture (server + multiple clients) implemented using two conventional cabling architectures: CATV coaxial cable and conventional Ethernet. This architecture is created taking into account the "Home gateway" concept present in most attempts to solve the problem of the "Intelligent home". A short presentation of the experimental is given with an investigation of the main performances obtained using this architecture. The experiments revealed that this simple solution makes possible to have entertainment and data services with performances close to traditional data services in a cost-effective architecture