The project defines an open interactive multimedia terminal architecture, application and delivery media independent, that allows a full software implementation. A toolkit of modules (covering part of the architecture) is being developed, in a distributed environment, which could be reused in different instantiations of terminals depending on the actual time, manufacturer and product. The currently implemented terminals will be integrated in networked demo platforms. By means of trials carried on the national hosts suitable applications will be used to validate the architecture and get the necessary feedback for its revision.
The achievements of the project so far are: specification of the terminal architecture and of the general layered networked client-server configuration; set up of a distributed software development environment according to the software engineering approach; development and testing of the software modules used by all the sub-systems (part of the software toolkit); set up of the networked client-server platforms for the trials.