1.6. Operational Model

The residential gateway market and the business model associated with it are still in the early stages. Probably the closest resembling practices in existence today are ISP and the cable TV companies. However, the extrapolation depicted in Figure 1.3 seems to be reasonable.

Figure 1.3. Operational model using the service gateway with the Java Embedded Server software.

For example, to avoid costly customer visits by technicians, an energy company may wish to deploy a piece of software that runs on home gateways in residence and reads gas meters remotely. The energy company would be the service provider. Additionally, the following ...

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