| Web of Objects |
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by François Jammes (Schneider Electric)
“Web of Objects” is the concept of “Objects” of the physical world (devices, sensors, actuators, …) communicating and inter-operating using “Web” technologies. This concept is today ready to be implemented using service-oriented architectures and “Web Services” technology.
Web Services are a communication technology coming from the Information & Telecommunication world, usable at the device level. The successfully achieved challenge was to be able to embed in very low cost devices the Web Services technology in order to get it at the device level.
During this session, 7 contributors broached different subjects concerning the “Web of Objects”.
Amongst others, they explained the necessity and the main advantages of the Web of Objects.
Furthermore, the web services was discussed at device level; the integration of web services, the state of art and the progress, how to build an application, the exploitation and future steps and more.
They continued with more information about the interconnection of devices with IT applications and the security when using Web Services.
The session was closed with a round table with all contributors.
Presentations Web of Objects zip-file - 4.586 kB
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| Health and Well-being |
| by Stan Smits (Philips Healthcare)
Healthcare has become the world's largest service sector with a worldwide expenditure of 4,000 B$ in 2006, reaching about 10% of the worldwide GDP. Building a global sustainable healthcare system will require addressing several key challenges such as improving the reimbursement systems, reducing the prevalence of chronic diseases, coping with the shortage of personnel and reducing the healthcare variability.
This transformation can be achieved by addressing the continuum of care from prevention, screening, diagnosing, treatment towards management and surveillance. ICT will play a major role in achieving this and has been placed high on the European agenda as demonstrated by the focus on Healthcare by the Framework Programmes, ITEA and ARTEMIS.
In this session an industry overview and two very promising examples was presented:
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HeartCycle [presenter: Jeroen Wals – Philips Research] is one of the largest biomedical and healthcare research projects within the EU. The HeartCycle consortium will work to improve the quality of care for coronary heart disease and heart failure patients by developing systems for monitoring their condition at home and involving them in the daily management of their disease. These systems will comprise unobtrusive sensors, dedicated software that analyzes the acquired data, and will provide feedback on the patient’s health and lifestyle recommendations.
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VitalHealth Software [presenter: Laurens van der Tang – VitalHealth Software] is a global joint venture between Mayo Clinic (US) and Noaber Foundation (NL). It is focused on developing and delivering advanced software for health management, with emphasis on providing support for patients with chronic diseases such as Diabetes, COPD and Schizofrenia. Remarkable aspects of the work of VitalHealth include its multi-disease architecture, its ability to support distributed health networks, the emphasis on patient centricity, the model driven design and its global solution focus.
Presentations Health and Well-being zip-file - 3.034 kB
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| Creative Industries: where Design meets Technology |
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by Jean Gelissen (Philips Research)
Nowadays Software Intensive (embedded) systems are part of everyone’s everyday’s life. In fact it would be very hard for most people to function without making use of these systems like mobile telephones, navigation devices, the internet and the like.
The extended flexibility, functionality and diversity of these systems has also been discovered by the design community and has resulted in a new wave of the creative industry by applying
Software Intensive (embedded) Systems in art, music, advertisement and design processes
In this session some examples were presented of this new wave were Software Intensive (embedded) Systems are combined with playing, fashion, art etcetera:
- Fashion Explorer: future technology will enable services to adapt ready-to-wear patterns to individually created clothing (combining advantages of ready-to-wear and tailor-made).
- Activeworlds Europe will present several professional and successful virtual worlds used in both educational and business settings. The emphasis will be on how these worlds were made successful and which aspects of Web 1 and 2.0 are vital for the success of virtual worlds in general.
- InfoMus Lab, DIST, University of Genoa: Do music and performing arts contribute to multimedia research? It is argued, for example, that the integration of sound and music in multimodal interfaces can improve the immersivity, the enactive, embodied content processing, resulting in more effective multimedia applications.
- Games Academy, Innovations in gaming: The many different aspects of creating a game make it a challenge of keeping coherence across the whole process. In this context the panel will explore how key aspects of game development such as ludic vs. storytelling, graphic vs. technology, human machine interface, concept of the game etc. have changed over time and what impact these questions have on technology and their technological basis and especially on questions of standardization.
- CCF, Intelligent playgrounds: Children are spending too much time watching TV and playing computer games, which results in a growing number of children lacking social contact with peers and being overweight. This presentation demonstrates how innovative, interactive products can stimulate children to be active, play and have fun.
Presentations Creative industries zip-file - 6.113 kB
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| Open Source: a solution for embedded systems software? |
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by Sylvie Robert (Airbus)
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users view: presentation done by industrial end-users who use open source solutions either for SW engineering tools (Airbus could run a presentation) or for embedded SW components (company TBD)
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providers view: presentation done by different OSS providers with associated business model to help actors to better understand this new concept of business
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and finally a presentation of OPEES initiative which makes the link between the two views and opens the road for new business model concepts
Presentations Open Source zip-file - 5.800 kB
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| Industry-as-laboratory: a research format for high-tech industry? |
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by Ed Brinksma (ESI)
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A presentation by Brinksma on experiences with industry-as-lab projects, a presentation by a senior R&D person of one of the high-tech companies with which ESI is cooperating, and possibly a discussion on how these experiences can be applied in European programmes like ARTEMIS and ITEA 2.
Presentations Industry-as-Laboratory zip-file - 8.607 kB
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