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The potential for real convergence in organizing all aspects of one's life becomes a reality with the marriage of connected home appliances, devices, and Opera Devices SDK. With Opera Devices SDK, the connected home becomes an information space where useful information is retrieved, stored, or shared. For instance, the classic household refrigerator, often a central spot in the home for leaving notes, putting up grocery lists, sharing information between family members, gets a futuristic update, allowing family members to continue sharing information in a new way. The same refrigerator can have the ability to monitor the family’s habits and also store and convey information (e.g. generating shopping lists or placing orders online for groceries).

The connected home, in addition to creating ease and convenience, creates an opportunity for savings. The appliances in the home can be configured to monitor energy usage, air conditioning, among other factors, to help increase efficiency and perhaps reduce utility costs.

The possibilities are staggering and limited only by the imagination and the capacity of the appliances. Opera Devices SDK can serve as a user interface engine and also draws upon the interactivity of various Web-enabled devices to help service providers deliver customized features, content, and updates to different appliances.

Benefits

Interactive content and intelligent appliances

Not only can appliance users interact and share information with other users, they can interact with the Web-enabled appliances themselves to look up information or configure their appliance to gather information about them or monitor the household. Additionally, appliance manufacturers could use the interactivity to gather or send consumer information or remotely diagnose malfunctioning equipment, for example.

Unlimited service delivery and revenue potential

The Opera solution allows OEMs and service providers to choose features and services to offer above and beyond the straight Web browsing Opera enables. Selected functionality can be created and distributed, with ease of development and deployment. The potential exists for service providers to generate a revenue stream in delivering tailored content or/and subscription-based services. With connected home appliances, there is potential for creating partnerships to bring services to consumers (grocery delivery, for example).

Fully customizable Web applications

Opera Widgets enable simple and cost-effective adaptation of existing Web applications that can run on virtually any connected appliance. Imagine getting customized weather reports or a stock ticker on your bathroom mirror each morning. Opera Widgets can do this with Web-enabled appliances.

Peace of mind

Home appliances, like the Kocom Wall-pad, can offer a complete solution for home security. In addition to all the complementary services, such as communications and appliance control, access and security control can be centralized within one small, intelligent, connected device.

The Opera reputation

Opera is a trusted partner and solid, experienced company working closely with partners to rapidly bring new products to market. Traded on the Norwegian stock exchange and deployed to millions of customers, Opera Software is a leader in the Web technology industry.

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