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Chapter XLI
Technology Roadmap for Living
Labs
Jens Schumacher
Fachhochschule Vorarlberg, Austria
Karin Feurstein
Fachhochschule Vorarlberg, Austria
Manfred Gschweidl
Fachhochschule Vorarlberg, Austria
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AbstrAct
The concept of “Living Labs” in general is not completely new in R&D. Available publications focused
on local requirements and targeted on business specifc needs. In this chapter available ICT for use in a
Living Lab are assessed and an implementation roadmap on behalf of ICT is presented. Besides buzzwords
like Web 2.0 and Triple Play, ICT enables fast and substantial advancements. To bring a clear view into
the range of solutions the authors orient on an ICT layering-architecture and the client/server nature of
today’s Web-technology. The roadmap takes into account currently applicable technologies and likely
future trends. Technological maturity, social compliance, consumer acceptance and politics & market-
regulation are considered in the critique. The breakdown shows that a few core technologies are not only
suffcient for the skeletal structure, but also from the main bulk of a Living Lab infrastructure. Thus the
technology for most of the desirable features of a Living Lab is on-hand, future functional extensions
can be provided by open interfaces and a modular architecture of the system.