Presence@FER: An Ecosystem for Rich Presence

Abstract—Presence information—expressing user willing-ness and ability to communicate with other users across a set of devices and tools—represents an essential prerequisite for real-time communications. Although presence-related pro-tocols have primarily emerged in conjunction with instant messaging systems, presence is today viewed as a primer service offered by contemporary unified communication platforms, and is often referred to as the dial tone of the 21st century. The paper presents Presence@FER, an ecosystem for presence based on the Rich Presence Information Data format (RPID) which comprises both XMPP and SIP-based solutions for presence