Track F - Technology, Platforms, Standards, Interoperability

Time	Wednesday the 15th of September
	Track F Track Chairs: Saied Tazari, Fraunhofer IGD/Ad van Berlo, Smart Homes, The Netherlands/ Peter Wintlev-Jensen, Head of Sector, European Commission
Track rationale	To investigate the role of standards and platforms in coping with the challenge of interoperability in AAL as well as the obstacles to their wider adoption by technology providers
Theme	Technology, Platforms Standards, Interoperability
16.30-18.00	F1: Technical standards for AAL: Achivements and obstacles
Session Rationale	In the spirit of the main question in Track F, the presentations in this session introduce different standardization efforts related to AAL. They will provide an overview of the specific fields of activity and the important achievements to date while addressing any obstacles encountered on the way of wider adoption in RTD. Concluding discussions planned in Session F5.
Speakers	Chair: Michael Strübin, Continua Health Alliance `Luca Odetti.pdf, ALLIANCE, Fratronic`: The AAL Standardization Scene Thomas Norgall.pdf, Vice Fraunhofer AAL Alliance: Interoperabiltiy Standards for AAL and Personal Health Applications – the Role of CEN TC251 / WGIV Rick Cnossen.pdf, President and Chairman of the Board of Directors, Continua Health Alliance Robert Stegwee.pdf, Prof.dr., HL7 International: Standards that make interoperability a reality in healthcare Stefan Ohlsson.pdf, IBM Nordic: Open Health Tools
Time	Thursday the 16th of September
09.00-10.30	F2: Major AAL platform projects: achievements and obstacles
Session Rationale	The presentations deal with the question of how the AAL Joint Programme can use and transfer experience from the major FP platform projects. Hence, the presentations not only give an overview of the exploitable results from those projects but also discuss how the effective transfer of results could work and which barriers the projects see in this Each of the invited EU-IST-FP projects (HYDRA, I2Home, MPOWER, NetCarity, OASIS, PERSONA, SOPRANO) will have a presentation. Concluding discussion planned in session F5.
Speakers	Chair: Sergio Guillen, Dr., ITACA,@ Universidad Politécnica de Valencia Reiner Wichert, Dr. Ing., Fraunhofer AAL Alliance: Why has the AAL community not yet arrived to viable business models Atta Badii.pdf, Prof., University of Reading & Mario Hoffmann, Head of Department, Fraunhofer Institute (SIT, Munich & Darmstadt): Hydra Middleware Platform for Secure Semantic Interoperability of Sensor Networks to support AAL, Smart Energy, Security and Mobility Management Jan Alexandersson, DFKI GmbH: i2home Petr Kremen, Czech Technical University in Prague: NetCarity
13.00-14.30	F3: Major AAL platform projects: achievements and obstacles
Session Rationale	Continuation of session F2
Speakers	Chair: Sergio Guillen, Dr., ITACA,@ Universidad Politécnica de Valencia Sten Hanke.pdf, AIT - Austrian Institute of Technology: MPOWER - challenges and opportunities Pilar Sala Soriano, ITACA: Open Architecture for Accessible Services Integration and Standardisation: The OASIS project approach Juan Pablo Lazaro.pdf, TSB: PERSONA: ambient intelligence distributed platform for the delivery of AAL Services Elena Avatangelou, EXODUS S.A.: SOPRANO
15.00-16.30	F4: UniversAAL – Consolidation, Open Source, & Community Building
Session Rationale	As shown in the sessions F2 and F3, the production of software infrastructures supporting AAL has been the core topic of a number of EU projects. The legacy of these projects should not be allowed to die after the end of the projects; rather, their further maturation should be promoted and supported. With the goal to achieve this, universAAL, an FP7 project started in February 2010, is applying different processes and tools: A consolidation process of existing architectural designs in order to converge to a common reference architecture; an open source reference implementation of a consolidated platform based on such reference architecture; and a consensus building process to be carried forward by a large community composed of representatives of AAL stakeholders. In this session, these tools and processes will be introduced briefly. Concluding discussions planned in Session F5..
Speakers	Chair: Reiner Wichert, Dr. Ing., Fraunhofer AAL Alliance 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 AAL Systems Through Competitive Benchmarking
Time	Friday the 17th of September
09.00-10.30	F5: Concluding Discussions
Session Rationale	The idea is to use this session to further discuss the issues addressed in the previous four sessions (the chairs of this session, as the moderators of the discussions, are responsible to gather them all): Discuss to which extent the universAAL approach could be promising for coping with the challenges addressed in F1 to F3; which advices can be given to universAAL on its way towards its goals; which complementary arrangements could be added to the agenda of EU-IST-FP and AAL-JP?
Speakers	Chairs: Ad van Berlo, Smart Homes, The Netherlands & Joe Gorman, SINTEF ICT Panelists Niels Boye, AAL Joint Programme CMU Sergio Guillen, Dr., ITACA,@ Universidad Politécnica de Valencia Gaby Lenhart, Senior Research Officer, ESTI Reiner Wichert, Dr. Ing., Fraunhofer AAL Alliance Mario Romao, Continua Health Alliance Peter Wintlev-Jensen, Head of Sector, European Commission