OSGi Platform for UPnP Audiovisual Service Delivery

There is continuously increasing number of devices available which support multimedia management and enable capabilities of interconnection beyond the borders of a Residential Gateway. This paper focuses on devices providing multimedia content (Media Server) and devices reproducing the contents (Media Renders). The objective is to discover, manage and use remote devices like local resources. The setup and configuration should be easy to manage for service providers and transparent for the end users that access to remote services. The paper presents a solution supporting devices implementing UPnP A V that are integrated into an OSGi platform implemented in a heterogeneous scenario with multiple devices and services.