Hughes Announces Telepresence Application for Android-based TVs and STBs

Hughes and Home Jinni have demonstrated the first Telepresence client for Android powered TV sets and set-top boxes

BARCELONA, Spain — Mobile World Congress 2010 — Hughes Systique announces it has developed a proof of concept Telepresence application based on SIP for Digital TV sets and set-top boxes powered by the Android operating system. The HUGHES Telepresence application brings an immersive video conferencing solution to TV sets which allows participants to feel as though they are present in the same living room, even when located continents apart. This demonstrates the power of Android as a general embedded platform for consumer electronics and the connected home. Hughes has partnered with the company Home Jinni Inc., and has built this application as a plugin for the HomeJinni ConnecTV media center, the worlds first social media center and Connected TV framework for Android powered TV sets, Blu-ray players and set-top boxes.

Arjun Roychowdhury, head of Mobile Terminals & Applications at Hughes Systique said “We are very excited to be working with technology innovators like Home Jinni on powering the industry first android based telepresence client. HomeJinni’s connecTV solution based on Android is a very optimized and powerful platform that offered complete flexibility to our team to achieve our goals. Our telepresence plugin demo successfully ties in the home entertainment and communication verticals into what we believe will be the next generation of consumer services. It also is a great showcase for demonstrating our deep Android expertise and capability of building similar solutions for our customers”

Shidan Gouran, President and CEO of Home Jinni, states ” We are excited that one of the worlds leading software services companies has announced support for Android powered consumer electronics and TV applications and we are delighted that they have chosen ConnecTV as the front-end and rapid application platform for developing applications suitable for a 10-foot user experience and integrating with the connected home. We are confident that this will be just the start of rapid adoption, by established industry players, of Android as the operating system of choice for the Connected Home.”

To learn more about HUGHES Systique’s TV and video solution development expertise contact: info(at)hsc(dot)com

To learn more about ConnecTV and other HomeJinni offerings contact: info(at)homejinni(dot)com or call (416) 218-5583.