• GROW THE MARKET FOR SERVICES TO CONNECTED HOMES
• SHOW PEOPLE EVERYWHERE THE BENEFITS FROM INTELLIGENT CONNECTIVITY
• BUILD CONSORTIA THAT WILL PROVIDE THE FRAMEWORK AND DELIVER BUSINESS FOR TAHI MEMBERS
• CREATE REGIONAL DEVELOPMENTS OF "SMART HOUSES"
• DISSEMINATE TO LOCAL COMMUNITIES THE ACTUAL EXPERIENCES OF PEOPLE LIVING IN THE DEVELOPMENTS.
• BUILD MARKET DEMAND

EMSISG = Energy Management & Sustainability ISG

BCRISG = Building, Construction and Regeneration ISG

HTCISG = Health, Telecare and Community ISG

Most meetings will be held in the offices of the DTI at 151 Buckingham Palace Road, Victoria, London SW1W 9SS. Nearest Underground is Victoria (See TAHI Calendar for details)

The meetings of the BCRISG and HTCISG on the 19th of April will overlap so that results of work to date can be reviewed joint work discussed. For these meetings the HTCISG Meeting will run from 10.00 until 14.00 and the BCRISG Meeting will run from 12.00 to 16.00

This is also proposed for the EMSISG and Interoperability WG on the 8th March but not yet agreed.

TAHI exists to create the market for applications and services into the (BroadBand) Connected Home and to make the connectivity intelligent.

The TAHI Commercialisation Programme has as its goal to promote, provide the environment for and launch large scale deployments of "Smart Houses" and the services or service sets for them so that people can see and experience the benefits the connected home can bring and demand them for themselves.

TAHI believes that this will greatly accelerate market growth and at the same time provide significant economies in healthcare and its provision, energy and the cost of living so that people can live better, longer at reduced costs to themselves and also the taxpayer.

It is intended that TAHI Members will take the lead in this work and as the founder members of working groups and consortia will be best placed to benefit from this initiative.

TAHI Commercialisation Programme

With the successful completion of its DTI sponsored trials, TAHI is now moving to turn experiment into reality. The trials have proved the concepts of Equipment management and the aggregation of services and have shown that organisations working together in a common cause can create the infrastructure to deliver the services and applications that people at home want and will pay for. We have shown the benefits for equipment manufacturers in managing and monitoring their equipment. We have shown just how things can be made to work together. Because we know and can show that things work, we do not need more trials or pilots. We need actual systems used by real people.

TAHI is now embarking on a determined programme of commercialisation that will turn our experiences and knowledge into commercial opportunity. The contention is that research or words are not enough; there must be commercially based action. Even backed by government initiatives however, adoption of all the benefits the connected home will take time. This programme will create demand and acceptance of the technology by wide-ranging showcases and deployments of the benefits arising from connectivity used intelligently by applying them to peoples' homes as they are built, refurbished and by occupiers refurbishing their own homes and telling the world about the benefits (with significant help from this programme).

Underpinning these groups, the TAHI Interoperability Group will be working to deliver a definitive requirements specifications for Interoperability.

This will take the form of a TAHI Interoperability Framework document stating how systems will work together in the home and it is intended that all systems and deployments will conform to the framework.

Beyond this there are teams working in DeMontfort University and Bristol University and the TAHI Interoperability Group itself that are working to define and deliver examples of working systems that conform to the framework.

Go to TAHI Interoperability Framework