KIT Connected Device Framework
Seamlessly deliver social video apps to connected TVs, set-top boxes, game consoles, tablets, and Smartphones.
Solving the Audience Fragmentation Challenge: A more efficient and cost effective way to deliver video to mobile and connected devices.
While the number of people who consume video over the internet grows at an unprecedented rate, the range of devices they use to watch video also continues to grow, making it difficult and expensive for video service providers to reach and retain their audience.
For example, Cisco now predicts that network-connected devices will outnumber people 2 to 1 by 2015. Cisco also reported that in 2010, PCs generated 97 percent of consumer Internet traffic. This will fall to 87 percent by 2015, demonstrating the impact that devices like tablets, smartphones and connected TVs are having on how people consume content.
IDC also reports that by 2013, there will be nearly 4.9 billion mobile subscribers worldwide, and a growing percentage of them will have smartphones capable of delivering a quality video experience. Media tablets such as the iPad will also see tremendous growth during this period. In fact, the number of Internet-connected devices will almost double, to an average of 1.7 devices per Internet user by 2013, as more people connect via mobile devices, tablets, game consoles, set top boxes and connected TVs.
For companies delivering video, the technology challenges are mounting due to this increasingly complex environment involving different platforms, devices and APIs. The KIT Connected Device Framework reduces the complexity of delivering multiscreen video solutions so that you can focus on delivering quality content instead of solving tough technical challenges.
The KIT Connected Device Framework provides a collection of native application templates that are configured using the KIT App Studio authoring tool, as well as a comprehensive Software Developer Kit (SDK) that includes documentation, sample applications, API connectors and Digital Rights Management (DRM) modules. With the KIT App Studio or the SDK, the KIT Connected Device Framework enables the rapid creation of a broad range of experiences that run natively across multiple devices to deliver socially enabled video experiences to audiences everywhere. Further, KIT digital’s professional services team can build completely custom applications for proprietary set-top boxes or emerging connected device platforms not already supported by the framework.
With the KIT Connected Device Framework you can:
- Rapidly and cost-effectively configure native mobile and connected device applications to deliver “TV Everywhere”
- Eliminate the need for costly mobile application development by leveraging the KIT App Studio authoring tool to develop compelling native apps with drag and drop ease
- Reduce the time, cost and complexity of delivering branded, native applications to Apple iOS or other non-Flash devices
- Leverage the broad reach and distribution of the respective device application stores to quickly build viewership for your video programming
- Connect with audiences via interactive engagement features to keep them involved and returning on a regular basis, as well as attract new viewers
- Converge online and mobile audiences into a single branded community to create influence in multiple media channels and generate crossover audience traffic
- Leverage template applications for leading retail Connected TV devices, including Roku, Boxee, Google TV, LG, Samsung, and Yahoo Widgets, as well as XBOX 360, Wii, and PS3
- Take advantage of Adobe Pass for TV Everywhere to seamlessly verify a user’s entitlement to content in a manner that is both simple and secure
