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eMobility News - March 2009
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RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
+++ eMobility coordination of FP7 Call 5 proposals +++
After the great success and positive feedback that eMobility received for the
coordination of Call 4 proposals, eMobility will perform a similar coordination
activity also for FP7 Call 5 proposals.
As a first action, a questionnaire will be sent to eMobility members asking for
their interests and priorities in Call 5 topics. This should highlight how
strongly the individual areas are covered. Following that the community will
again be asked to inform eMobility about concrete ideas for submitting proposals
for Call 5.
The eMobility Steering Board will review the received proposal ideas, and all
coordinators of proposals which are considered relevant will be invited to an
eMobility Call 5 Coordination workshop. The workshop will take place in Paris on
4 May 2009, directly before the WWRF meeting, in order to help avoid additional
travel.
Participation in the eMobility Call 5 Coordination workshop will be restricted
to proposal coordinators who have submitted their proposal abstract to eMobility
before. This is meant to enable an efficient meeting in a trustful environment.
+++ Working Group on Leading-Edge Applications +++
Within the activities of eMobility, a Working Group on Leading-Edge Applications
has been formed, in order to address non-technological aspects related to
services and applications in mobile and wireless communicaitons.
Among the objectives of this working group is the establishment of an SAA (Strategic Applications Agenda), which has been issued in January 2009 in its first version.
The SAA focuses on three areas that are currently of paramount importance in
mobile and wireless communications:
- Health and Inclusion
- Transport
- Environment, to which the Future Internet was added, together with another on
Enabling Technologies.
For each of the focus areas, a vision and core topics are defined, followed by a state of the art, and then future challenges are assessed.
The contributions have been gathered through workshops and research. Some of
the main challenges in each of the focus areas are:
- the barrier that comes from doctors not using ICT, citing a lack of training
and technical support
- the requirements for high-quality medical video
- bandwidth limitations/error prone characteristics of the wireless channels
- real-time requirements of most services on health and inclusion
- the need for certification guidelines across a wide range of areas, including
safety issues and services that increase the safety of people in traffic, on
transport
- requirement-driven solutions that have a commercial and economic justification
and can be provided at best on a global scale
- setting standards and conventions surpassing national and language boundaries,
and also political and legal issues concerning the environment
- to understand the requirements for future applications and services, and
- to drive research in the right technological direction, so that technology
advancements may translate into business innovation in the Future Internet.
Some issues go across all areas, like the need to
address legal and regulatory issues, the need to build user-friendly platforms
thereby diminishing complexity through better design, and trust, as well as
security and privacy of data, whose perception varies. A second version of the
SAA will be available in December 2009.
The SAA is available at the eMobility website on the Working Group page at
http://www.emobility.eu.org/WorkingGroups/Applications/Applications.html
Prof. Luis M. Correia
IT/DEEC - Torre Norte
Instituto Superior Técnico
Technical University of Lisbon
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