A living lab is a collection of people, equipment, services and technology to provide a test platform for research and experiments.

What is Far North Living Lab?

The Far North Living Lab has a main focus on digital media and distribution to reflect the very creative environment found in the North of Norway.

The lab will provide basic services to all projects that use it, like high speed network connectivity, data storage, P2P distribution technology and so on. It will also provide infrastrcture to share knowledge, announce events or projects and communicate with interested parties.

It is also noteable that the Far North Living Lab covers a great physical distance, Northern Norway is a very big place, and reaching the creative souls and the magnificent nature of the whole region is of utmost importance.

How is the lab organised?

Experiments within the lab will be part of a project - the projects will finance any experiment costs. If you have an interesting idea for a new project, please contact us for information and arrangements. Existing projects and experiments are listed in the wiki - if you want to join one of them, please follow the contact procedure for that experiment.

While we seek to keep costs at a minimum, it is necessary for the lab to have some funding. We are open for commercial partners and projects to provide both money, equipment or services to the lab. For more information, please contact us.

Can I join?

Yes you can! We want several types of user: End user, Content producer (artists, musicians) and companies (service providers, content distributors).  While the main focus of the Far North living lab is in the Far North, we're also open for partners outside of Northern Norway.

Perhaps you are also interested in signing up for the P2P-Next Living Lab?

You can also find info using Facebook.


Earlier events

June 2009: Our Far North Living Lab Launch - VideoOnDemand of a 2K resolution video.
October 2009: Pudovkin's Mother live to Beijing + the world using P2P live streaming, 2mbit/s full PAL resolution. Together with the Insomnia festival, we performed the re-composed Pudovkin's "Mother" live in the Far North Living Lab and Notch Festival in Beijing. You can also drop by and see how it worked by watching a clip re-live


Norut logo