“Connected Home” – the theory of having advanced technology throughout the home environment, or essentially a digital home – is becoming increasingly popular with the advancements of energy home management and smart grids. 

Digital convergence, wireless connectivity, broadband Internet access and product miniaturization has profoundly impacted the "connected home" experience, increasing the demand for the connected home.

As with all things, however brilliant it may seem, this evolving idea has complications and factors that create a somewhat difficult turnover.

Celstream Technologies, a global product engineering services company, announced the availability of its Solution Accelerators, which are readily available components and near-ready ecosystems, tailored specifically for the digital home entertainment market.

Anand Kuppuswamy, corporate manager, Marketing and Strategy, Celstream, said that product companies that create home entertainment within the connected home need to rapidly roll-out user friendly products that provider interoperability across a wide range of technology devices, while meeting the customers’ needs for mobility and on-demand usage of available content.

"These factors, coupled with a growing need for robustness and quality that reduce the cost of maintenance, can prove daunting to even the most experienced product companies,” Kuppuswamy said. 

Celstream leverages its domain expertise and technical competencies to help these product companies meet the challenging market demands. 

With research being conducted on the connected home theory, results have shown that consumers are interested in the idea of interoperable entertainment solutions, since electronic devices have been migrating into the wireless multimedia environment.

“Celstream's Solution Accelerators, including our PRO2X, ReAL OPD and Services Package, can be customized to support the implementation of highly differentiated products," Kuppuswamy said.

Therefore, using Celstream’s Solution Accelerators allows product companies to not only reduce development costs, but speed time-to-market in the connected home, which assists the customer in achieving an interactive, completely functioning home entertainment.

Celstream's PRO2X is deployable software designed for customization and rapid implementation which provides product roadmap assistance, post-launch support, links to strategic partnerships and networks in the specific product area, as well as help with regulatory compliance. 

And, in the renewable energy segment, the PRO2X development ecosystem also reduces development time and enhances profitability by automating discrete business processes and optimizing development spends through re-usability.

Another software application – ReAL OPD – allows customers and product companies to share technology components or processes. The company’s final software in the Solution Accelerators is the Services Package which is designed to meet ever-changing market demands for customers and satisfy complex business and technical needs and changes.