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Consulting
Dacc Support of Service Innovation
New innovative services and facilities
in offices and buildings provided through advanced and new technology,
always are at great risk of user non-acceptance. Therefore such
services and facilities should be prototyped and tested in an as
realistic environment as possible.
Such prototypes and test environments need not have all capabilities
and never the full capacity of the final solution, but they should
cover the most important user cases with real interfaces.
To do this in a cost effective way, the prototypes need to be flexible
and easy to modify and preferrably built by readily available building
blocks glued together with a minimum of new software and hardware.
The competence of DACC and our partner Excito, the vast knowledge of
Open Source and freeware software, and the own platforms for content
management and media and service distribution based on freeware
components, creates the basis for efficient prototyping and cost
effective final solutions.
DACC's and Excito's personnel also have specific competence and
experience in Smart Homes and Offices, Building Automation, advanced
electrical power systems for buildings and homes, Digital Media Rights,
and Smart Card applications.
A traditional way to design prototypes is to modify existing systems or
products similar to what the prototype should achieve. Such products or
systems are often complex and therefore expensive to work with and very
often burdended by heavy license fees. The level of innovation is
usually low due to constraints imposed by the original product.
The new way, made possible by the emergence of a large library of free
and directly available Open Source/freeware software products of high
quality and the basic platforms of DACC and Excito, is explored by DACC
to design and deploy prototypes and final solutions in the area of
Service and Facilities Innovation. This method creates a freedom to
become innovative with a minimum of work and software license cost and
therefore with short time plans and low total cost
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