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07.04.2009
New Ecosystems and Innovation in
M2M business
Interoperabilità dei sistemi intelligenti e
applicazioni di ubiquitous computing nel
Quality of Life
Luigi Cicchese
Partner Reply

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What is “Quality of Life”?
“The degree to which a person enjoys the
important possibilities of his/her life”.
Quality of Life Research Unit - University of Toronto
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Quality of Life dimensions
Health
Family
and Health
and Social
Services
Networks
Freetime
and Leasure
Education
Housing
Personal and Living
Financing Environment
Working
Public Services
Conditions
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Ubiquitous computing in QoL dimensions
TELEHEALTH SYSTEMS
HOME CONTROL SYSTEMS
PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION
SYSTEMS
HOSPITAL / CAREGIVER
PERSONAL COMMUNICATION
& PAYMENT SYSTEMS
ROAD & TRAFFIC
MONTORING
SPORT & WELLNESS
RETAIL
Difficulty to integrate new machines in existing ecosystem: Interoperability.
Difficulty to interpret data from each ecosystem.
Services provided by M2M devices are proprietary to each ecosystem.
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Characteristic of new QoL ecosystems
Pervasiveness Seamlessness
• Intelligent systems • The services will be
will be all around continuos and
as well as on the transparent to the
person person
Awareness Adaptiveness
• The machines will • The machines will
be aware of the interoperate with
location and of the the
personal context network, service
as it is happening and content of the
person’s needs
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Key elements for a solution
At Reply our approach is to develop and integrate
innovative m2m solutions for our customers
solving, through technology, the key issues:
• Self configuring protocols
Integration into existing
ecosystems & standard Interoperability
Interoperability Frameworks
• Context Aware User Interface
Data interpretation
• Semantic Engines
• Widgets & Mashups, SOA
Proprietary Services
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m2m architecture
Mash-Up – Cloud Services
End-User
Service Layer
Quality-of-Life Application Suite
Application
Suite
Widget Widget Widget Widget Widget Widget
Self-configuring , Context-Aware SOA
Application
(UPnP/DLNA, Device Profile for Web Services)
Layer
Inter-M2M
TCP/IP
communication
Long Range (GSM/GPRS – UMTS/HSxPA – WIMAX - Wired)
Short Range (WiFi – ZigBee/Bluetooth – RFID - Powerline)
Local NetWork
HardWare
Basic Modules
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Opportunities ahead driving interoperability
Increasing consolidation of M2M technology ecosystems will come from:
• EU FP7 - Sustainable society and energy consumption
• Home healthcare for growing aged population & social housing
Increasing public research
• Disease prevention: keep the population healthy and out of the hospitals as
investments addressing much as possible
multifaceted social needs • Eurofound Researches: Work life balance by flexible work options impacting
transportation and overall work organization.
• Vehicle installations with multiple application on the same multipurpose device
Road safety from joint EU27 for road monitoring, insurance payments, manufacturers, tolls
programs
Energy and security
• AMR, security, surveillance, home automation
convergence for home/building
environment
Consumer segment overlapping • Lifestyle organizers
• Nintendo WII with nutrition guide
with home/health devices
Sensor and actuators’
• Wired sensors becoming wireless (i.e. gas metering, home automation, etc.)
capabilities integrate as • SIM Cards support wireless interfaces such as NFC, WLAN
technologies evolve
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THANK YOU
Contatti
www.reply.eu
info@reply.it
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