Track F

Track F – Technology, Platforms, Standards, Interoperability

TimeWednesday the 15th of September
Track F
Track Chairs: Saied Tazari, Fraunhofer IGD/Ad van Berlo, Smart Homes, The Netherlands/ PeterWintlev-Jensen, Head of Sector,European Commission
Track rationaleTo investigate the role of standards and platforms in coping withthe challenge of interoperability in AAL as well as theobstacles to their wider adoption by technologyproviders
ThemeTechnology,Platforms Standards, Interoperability
16.30-18.00F1: Technical standards for AAL: Achivements andobstacles
Session Rationale

In the spirit of the main question in Track F, the presentations inthis session introduce different standardization efforts related toAAL. They will provide an overview of the specific fields ofactivity and the important achievements to date while addressingany obstacles encountered on the way of wider adoption inRTD. 

Concludingdiscussions planned inSession F5.

SpeakersChair: Michael Stru?bin, Continua HealthAlliance 

  • Luca Odetti.pdf, ALLIANCE, Fratronic:The AAL StandardizationScene
  • Thomas Norgall.pdf, Vice FraunhoferAAL Alliance: Interoperabiltiy Standards for AAL andPersonal HealthApplications – the Role of CEN TC251 /WGIV
  • Rick Cnossen.pdf, President and Chairman of the Board ofDirectors, Continua Health Alliance
  • Robert Stegwee.pdf, Prof.dr., HL7International: Standards that make interoperability a reality in healthcare
  • Stefan Ohlsson.pdf, IBM Nordic: Open HealthTools
TimeThursday the 16th of September
09.00-10.30F2: Major AAL platform projects: achievements andobstacles
Session RationaleThe presentations deal with the question of how the AAL JointProgramme can use and transfer experience fromthe major FP platform projects. Hence, the presentationsnot only give anoverview of the exploitable results from those projects butalso discuss howthe effective transfer of results could work and which barriersthe projects see in this Each ofthe invited EU-IST-FP projects (HYDRA, I2Home, MPOWER, NetCarity, OASIS, PERSONA, SOPRANO) will have a presentation. Concludingdiscussion planned in sessionF5.
SpeakersChair: Sergio Guillen, Dr., ITACA,@Universidad Politécnica deValencia 

  • Reiner Wichert, Dr. Ing., Fraunhofer AALAlliance: Why has the AALcommunity not yet arrived to viable businessmodels
  • Atta Badii.pdf, Prof., University of Reading & MarioHoffmann, Head of Department,
  • Fraunhofer Institute (SIT, Munich & Darmstadt): Hydra Middleware Platformfor
  • Secure Semantic Interoperability of Sensor Networks to support AAL,Smart Energy, Security and MobilityManagement
  • Jan Alexandersson, DFKI GmbH: i2home
  • Petr Kremen, Czech Technical University inPrague: NetCarity
13.00-14.30F3: Major AAL platform projects: achievements andobstacles
Session RationaleContinuationof session F2
SpeakersChair: Sergio Guillen, Dr., ITACA,@Universidad Politécnica deValencia 

  • Sten Hanke.pdf, AIT – Austrian Institute of Technology:MPOWER – challenges and op­portunities
  • Pilar Sala Soriano, ITACA: Open Architecture for Accessible Services Integration andStandardisation: The OASIS project approach
  • Juan Pablo Lazaro.pdf, TSB: PERSONA: ambient intelligence distributed platform for the deliveryof AAL Services
  • Elena Avatangelou, EXODUS S.A.:SOPRANO
15.00-16.30F4: UniversAAL – Consolidation, OpenSource, & Community Building
Session RationaleAs shown in the sessions F2 and F3, the production of softwareinfrastructures supporting AAL has been the core topic of a numberof EU projects. The legacy of these projects should not be allowedto die after the end of the projects; rather, their furthermaturation should be promoted and supported. With the goal toachieve this, universAAL, an FP7project started in February 2010, is applying different pro­cessesand tools: A consolidation process of existing architecturaldesigns in order to converge to a common reference architecture; anopen source reference imple­mentation of a consolidated platformbased on such reference architecture; and a consensus buildingprocess to be carried forward by a large community composed ofrepresentatives of AAL stakeholders. In this session, these toolsand processes will be introduced briefly. Concludingdiscussions planned inSession F5..
SpeakersChair: Reiner Wichert, Dr. Ing., Fraunhofer AALAlliance 

  • Joe Gorman.pdf, SINTEF ICT: universAAL – The project
  • Saied Tazari, Fraunhofer IGD: Consolidation: The technical approach in universAAL
  • Francesco Furfari, Dr., ISTI-CNR: The AAL Open Association
  • Stefano Chessa Dr.,ISTI-CNR: The EvAAL project – Evaluating AALSystems Through Competitive Benchmarking
TimeFriday the 17th of September
09.00-10.30F5: Concluding Discussions
Session Rationale

The idea is to use this session to further discuss the issuesaddressed in the previous four sessions (the chairs of thissession, as the moderators of the discussions, are responsible togather them all): Discuss to which extent the 

universAAL approach could be promising for coping with the challengesaddressed in F1 to F3; which advices can be given to universAAL on its way towards its goals; whichcomplementary arrangements could be added to the agenda ofEU-IST-FP and AAL-JP?

Speakers

Chairs: Ad van Berlo, Smart Homes, TheNetherlands & Joe Gorman, SINTEF ICT 

Panelists

  • Niels Boye, AAL Joint Programme CMU
  • Sergio Guillen, Dr., ITACA,@Universidad Politécnica deValencia
  • Gaby Lenhart, Senior Research Officer,ESTI
  • Reiner Wichert, Dr. Ing., Fraunhofer AALAlliance
  • Mario Romao, Continua HealthAlliance
  • Peter Wintlev-Jensen, Head of Sector,European Commission