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8th General Meeting
28th – 29th September, 2011 9:00 – 18:00 / 9:00 – 16:00
Meeting Venue: Potsdam, Germany
7th General Meeting
28th – 29th March, 2011 9:30 – 18:00 / 9:00 – 16:00
Meeting Venue: Spain, Universitat de Barcelona
28th – 29th September, 2011 9:00 – 18:00 / 9:00 – 16:00
Meeting Venue: Potsdam, Germany
28th – 29th March, 2011 9:30 – 18:00 / 9:00 – 16:00
Meeting Venue: Spain, Universitat de Barcelona
The Consortium partners will be lead by TESAN S.p.A. TESAN Telematic & Biomedical Services S.p.A., TBS Group that will bring in the project its experience and all its knowledge in IT health project. TESAN was established in 1987 as an advanced service company, in view of providing public and private health care centers with solid support systems enabling the efficient management of all installed technologies in terms of their safe use and lowering their maintenance and running costs. Tesan is a leader in Italy in Telemedicine and Emergency management and it operates in Clinical engineering and medical IT area".
A significant effort has been made to ensure that partners covering all scopes of the project nature and applications participate in the project. The CHRONIOUS Consortium is comprised of partners with deep knowledge of the healthcare sector and more specifically the COPD and Kidney Disease sector. An effort has been made to include in the Consortium partners not only with previous experience of RTD projects in the provision of healthcare services and healthcare networks, but also with unquestionable vast knowledge and expertise.
Some of the partners are considered as key actors in some of the technologies used such as wearables, signal acquisition using sensor technologies, sensor management, knowledge databases, intelligent multi-parameter support systems, communication links, security, information retrieval, data description, etc. It is important to underline that all partners are highly committed to the development of the proposed CHRONIOUS system, thus guaranteeing the optimal realisation of the project´s objectives.
The CHRONIOUS Consortium gathers an impressive amount of expertise and top level skills at a truly Pan-European level. It includes 14 Partners from 7 EU member states.
| Participant role | Participant name | Short name | Areas of knowledge | Country | Web site |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Project coordinator | TESAN S.p.A. | TESAN | Coordinator, Kidney Disease pilot and pathology model provider, call center and ICT infrastructure for interfacing HIS providers | Italy | www.tesan.it |
| Contractor | Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Careggi | AOUC | COPD and Kidney Disease pilot and pathology model provider | Italy | www.ao-careggi.toscana.it |
| Contractor | Universitat de Barcelona | UB | COPD Disease pilot and pathology model provider | Spain | www.ub.edu |
| Contractor | Universität Bremen TZI | U Bremen | Patient Sensing Framework | Germany | www.tzi.de |
| Contractor | Link Consulting, Tecnologias; Sistemas de Informatico, S.A. | Link | CHRONIOUS Ontology Framework | Portugal | www.link.pt |
| Contractor | Uniscan Instruments Limited | Uniscan | Patient Sensing Framework | United Kingdom | www.uniscan.com |
| Contractor | Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. | Fraunhofer | Patient Sensing Framework | Germany | www.iis.fraunhofer.de/EN/index.jsp |
| Contractor | CURE – Center for Usability Research & Engineering | CURE | CHRONIOUS Monitoring Framework | Austria | www.cure.at |
| Contractor | MIP Consorzio per l'innovazione e la Gestione delle Imprese e della Pubblica Amministrazione | MIP | CHRONIOUS Guideline Framework | Italy | www.mip.polimi.it |
| Contractor | IXTENT s.r.o. | IXTENT | Dissemination Leader, CHRONIOUS Ontology Framework | Czech Republic | www.ixtent.cz |
| Contractor | Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas | FORTH-BRI | CHRONIOUS Monitoring Framework | Greece | www.bri.forth.gr |
| Contractor | Center for Research & Technology – Thessaly | CERETETH | Greece | www.cereteth.gr | |
| Contractor | Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Dipartimento Tecnologie delle Informazione e delle Comunicazioni (ICT) | CNR – Dipartimento ICT | Italy | www.ict.cnr.it | |
| Contractor | Velti – Anonymi Etaireia Proionton Logismikou & Ypiresion | VELTI | Greece | www.veltiservices.com |
Country: Italy
TESAN Telematic & Biomedical Services S.p.A., TBS Group, was established at the end of the eighties as an advanced service company, in view of providing public and private health care centers with solid support systems enabling the efficient management of all installed technologies in terms of their safe use and lowering their maintenance and running costs. Both in operational terms and in terms of its managerial and technical staff, the company has developed a specific and longstanding know how in the research area. Indeed, it was involved in the C.N.R. finalized project entitled Tecnologie Biomediche e Sanitaries (1983 – 1987) entailing the development of the AC.MA.GEST sub-project which, first of its kind in Italy, led to the creation of a series of operational tools conceived specifically to optimize the management of biomedical technologies. The very many opportunities that the development of technologies and the diffusion of communication systems are offering today to companies operating in the field of hospital modernization, quality and cost control have led TESAN to search for new growth areas by offering various types of telemedicine services. TESAN operates in the following areas of activity:
Clinical Engineering: consultancy for the purchase of medical devices and management of biomedical equipment for hospitals, as well as safety checks and functional quality assessments related to them. A leader in France, Italy and UK but operates successfully also in Belgium, Germany, Portugal and Spain; Endoscopy: maintenance of all the flexible and rigid endoscopy instruments; Medical IT: installation and integrated management of all medical information systems. With respect to this field the Group plays a leading role in Austria and is a major operator in Italy and Germany. Telemedicine and Emergency Management for all public and private healthcare institutions operating in the fields of Telediagnosis, Home Telecare, Teleconsulting, Telecontrol and Emergency Management. A leader in Italy in this sector. The group comprises 12 companies working in 9 European countries. Its associates are based in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, UK, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain. One of TESAN's prominent achievents is its call center for the telemedicine and for the home care services. The call center allow TESAN to deliver a large number of services and to become partner of service providers in the health sector.
Country: Italy
The Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitario Careggi (AOUC) (Florence, Italy) is one of the largest hospitals in Italy, with 1860 beds. Its a joint company composed by the university and the hospital itself. The personnel is composed by 5.600 employees, 4.600 of which are health professionals and 1.000 are administrative and technical staff. AOC is the referral hospital for high complexity cases and carry out didactic, assistance and research tasks.
As an emergency department, it assures, in the Florence metropolitan area, the 24 hour advanced-surgical and medical activities. Several High Specialized Regional Referral Centers are able to guarantee the regional integration with other hospitals, and to establish links with the national hospital and health center of excellence networks. On the international side, it has permanent links with research centers and medical organizations all over the world, and it is involved in specific projects.
It leads project teams, working on the integration of the healthcare processes in the Florence metropolitan area and it is focusing on several projects regarding technology innovation and IT infrastructures development aiming to support strategic and clinical decisions. In particular, it´s promoting a very huge initiative in the medical imaging setting up a unique RIS-PACS system at regional level, integrating the HIS of the different hospital and health system involved. The Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Careggi will be involved in the Chronious Project with two departments:
Country: Spain
The University of Barcelona (UB) was founded in 1450. Today it boasts of a student body of 62.304 and a research staff of 4,517 members. Degrees are offered in 77 different areas of teaching with numerous postgraduate and doctorate programs as well as continuing education courses. The UB is the largest of the six universities of Barcelona and of the ten in Catalonia. The UB is ranked the first Spanish university, and the twenty third European institution, in scientific quality and productivity. The UB manages in average 150 European projects per year, for an amount of about 8,6 million euro a year. The UB is particularly interested in fostering international relations, and for many years has been the leader among European universities in the number of student exchanges organised as part of the Erasmus program. The UB develops all its activities related to the research in Europe through its European Research Projects Office, a unit in charge of the promotion of EC programmes, technical assistance to the elaboration of proposals and management of projects with participation of researchers of the UB, co-ordinated by the Vice-Rector for Innovation and International Research Programmes.
The School of Medicine of the UB has two main University Hospitals (Hospital Clinic and Hospital de Bellvitge). Both hospitals have very active research departments of Pneumology and are particularly focused on the assistance of chronic respiratory patients. These two hospitals together play a leading role in the number of chronic respiratory patients on home ventilation in Catalonia. A relevant issue for this project is that the basic science and clinical departments carry out common and coordinated research in pneumology, as proven by the expensive literature published. This ensures that the technical implementations developed for this project will be tested in patients.
Country: Germany
The Center for Computing Technologies (TZI www.tzi.de ) is part of the University of Bremen. It is dedicated to application-oriented research and development in computer science. Founded in 1995, its goals are the application and transfer of new scientific results into industrial practice, the development of innovative application-oriented technologies, and application-oriented training. In 2000 the TZI initiated the [wearLab], which bundles all related research and institutional efforts to serve as a single point of entry to the area of wearable and mobile computing technologies. Since 2004 this work was enhanced by the Mobile Research Centre (www.mrc-bremen.de) .Furthermore, the TZI has long-term experiences on the field of Artificial Intelligence research, including knowledgebased systems, intelligent information integration, modelling, prediction, decision support and machine learning in application domains like logistics, embedded systems, engineering design, multimedia, and medical systems.
Our work was dedicated to wearable computing applications where new ways of human-computer interaction were developed. This led to a better support of mobile activities and work processes by information and communication technologies. Suitable hardware in combination with the appropriate software tools were developed. In our approach people wear information technology on their body (e.g. computers in the clothes, head mounted devices as a personal information display, small input and output devices for appropriate multimodal human-computer interaction, voice for command control and wireless transmission of voice, video and data communication).
Our solutions are flexible enough to act as a platform for various services. People are supported by our solutions during performing primary tasks not being computer applications. However, the computer-support is integrated into these primary tasks where the use of the system is as casual as possible.
Country: Portugal
Link Consulting (www.link.pt) is a Portuguese SME with the mission of creating value through technological innovation on Information Technologies areas. The company dates from 1999, and results from the enterprise automation of Technology Transference Centers associated to Public Universities. Nowadays, Aitec, SGPS, is the principal shareholder, integrating a holding of several technological based companies. The staff consists on 165 collaborators and 30 trainees with expertise on the IT consulting and development, serving the offer structured on the following areas: Enterprise Architecture; IT Engineering; IT Solutions; IT Services; Business Solutions; SmartCITIES. The clients are mainly Portuguese, with a crescent volume of services abroad (Brazil, Morocco, Spain, Israel, Belgium, EUA, Angola, Mozambique, Cabo Verde and Salo Tome and Principe), in several segment areas, such as e-Government, Finances and Insurance, Telecommunications, Logistics and Distribution, Transportation, Forest and Natural Resources, Health, Justice and Utilities. Link has structured its Services, Solutions and Products offer based on a very close collaboration with customers facing complex challenges and with a vision for internationalization of their activities. It also privileges, INESC and other Research Institutions and is an active player in European R&D projects.
Country: United Kingdom
Formed in 1989, Uniscan Instruments has rapidly grown into a world leader for successfully developing innovative measuring instruments for electrochemistry and surface metrology. Uniscan first product, SRET, a Scanning Probe Electrochemical Analysis System, reached the market in 1993. With over 100 units now installed world-wide, continuous product development means that SRET has maintained its leading edge in the Scanning Probe Electrochemistry (SPE) market. The product has since been refined into three further variations, the Scanning Vibrating Probe system (SVET), the Scanning Kelvin Probe system (SKP), the Localised Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (LEIS) system and the Scanning Electrochemical Microscope (SECM).
Both Princeton Applied research (formerly EG&G Instruments) and Solartron Analytical currently utilise Uniscan´s technology in their SPE products. 1996 saw Uniscan embark on further expansion by product diversification utilising this proven precision scanning and data acquisition to develop the OSP series of Non- Contact Surface Profiling and Measurement Instruments. More recently, Uniscan have been utilising expertise in Micro-Controller engineering, and knowledge of design of low noise Voltage and Current measurement to design and develop small, powerful potentiostats, with a full suite of electrochemical analysis techniques, targeted primarily and electrochemical sensor development. Uniscan has won several competitive awards for research, technical innovation, export and business development, including in 2000, a SMART achievement award in recognition of the Company successful commercial exploitation of a product which was developed under the UK DTI SMART Award.
Uniscan has been or is currently involved in a number of successful Projects either privately funded, or jointly through national funding bodies. These include Both Framework 5 and 6 EU funded projects, UK DTI, DEFRA and MEDLINK funded research projects. The Company has supplied instrumentation to some of the world's premier research laboratories such as NASA, Seiko, Monsanto, Rockwell Collins and Bosch, as well as many smaller manufacturing organisations. Uniscan's management team has several decades of experience in research, development, production and international marketing.
The company is committed to continuous product development and quality, ensuring that they provide their customers, associates and distributors with state of the art instrumentation and high quality technical support. The company's present successful product line has resulted from heavy investtment in R&D, where the 35% of total revenues are re-invested. The company sponsors research at several local Universities. Further information may be found at the Uniscan Instruments web-site, www.uniscan.co.uk
Country: Germany
The Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft undertakes applied research that drives economic development and serves the wider benefit of society. Its services are solicited by customers and contractual partners in industry, the service sector and public administration. At present, the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft maintains more than 80 research units, including 58 Fraunhofer Institutes, at 40 different locations in Germany with 12500 staff and an annual research budget of 1.2 billion euros whereof more than billion is generated through contract research. The Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft was founded in 1949 and is a recognized non-profit organization.
The involved Institutes in Chronious project are two:
The Fraunhofer Institut für Integrierte Schaltungen (IIS) was founded in 1985 in Erlangen, with locations in Nürnberg, Fürth and Dresden. Headed by Prof. Heinz Gerhäuser, it ranks first among the Fraunhofer Institutes concerning headcount and revenues. With the development of the audio coding method MP3, Fraunhofer IIS has reached worldwide recognition. The institute conducts contract research for national as well as international industry and public authorities. Key areas of activities are video source coding, multimedia real-time systems, integrated circuits and sensor systems, design automation, imaging systems, medical sensor solutions and communication technology in transport and logistics. Further and ongoing developments provided a number of solutions for wireless sensor connectivity (e.g. using Technologies like Bluetooth, ZigBee™, or GSM,) and interoperability enabling „custom-tailored“ end-to-end multiparameter monitoring systems for patients with chronic diseases or for workers in dangerous environments. Accordingly, a range of miniaturized sensor modules was developed for ECG, SpO2, flow, body position and movements, non invasive blood pressure, etc. Sample projects and applications are:
Intelligent methods of signal processing, pattern recognition and event detection are developed and utilized for medical applications. Multi-modal signal analysis provides detection and classification of relevant events (sleep distortion, heart disease, cell analysis, fall detection, etc.) for medical care and rehabilitation. Extensive Algorithm Libraries, Tools and Know-how for the detection of events are available. Automatic Tools were developed for feature extraction and classification enabling real-time event detection. Know-how and Tools exist for gathering representative manually pre-classified data sets for algorithm development and optimization both for algorithm training and test. Another central activity is the setup of an „Innovation Cluster Personal Health“ as a new structure aiming at fostering and structuring co-operation among several Fraunhofer institutes, industrial and medical partners as well as health insurance companies and regulatory organizations. As a core organizational and business unit within the structure of this cluster, which was kicked-off in November 2006, a „Medical Test and Application Center“ will be installed in 2007.
Country: Austria
CURE is one of Europea´s leading organisations in the area of User Experience Research comprising the fields of Usability Engineering, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), User Interface Design and Ergonomy. CURE has been working on the development and application of user centred design methodologies, innovative user interfaces and natural interaction environments for several years. Active in several application domains, CURE has gained outstanding multidisciplinary experience in various and complex application domains. CURE comprises a highly interdisciplinary team assembling all skills of contributing disciplines such as computer science, psychology, sociology, pedagogy, didactics, design, architecture, communication science or management science.
CURE is equipped with a leading edge and highly flexible user experience laboratory (including various mobile equipment) comprising the whole range of most advanced usability research and demonstration facilities. CURE uses a static and a mobile eye tracking system.
Country: Italy
Since 1979, the MIP, the Business School of the Politecnico di Milano, has been one of the most prestigious schools offering business and management training to graduates from all disciplines. As a consortium, the MIP includes together with the Politecnico di Milano a number of national teaching institutions and various public and private sector industrial groups. Moreover MIP will bring to the consortium the knowledge developed within its School for Health Care Management which focuses on research and consulting activities in the healthcare field. During the past years, MIP has developed competencies about specific and critical health-care areas such as Operation Theatre, Day-Hospital and Day- Surgery and it is highly specialized in – budgeting and reporting for health-care organizations and training for medical managers. Within the MIP, the TBM-Lab (Biomedical Technology Laboratory) is the largest laboratory (almost 800 square meters) of the Bioengineering Department and it is aimed to develop innovative technologies and methods specifically addressed to biomedical technologies, mathematical modelling, biosignal processing, biomaterials and medical instrumentations. The field of interest concerns various applications (surgery navigation, image guided radiotherapy, movement disorders, respiratory diseases, etc.) and particularly attention is devoted to innovative technologies for home monitoring in respiratory disorders and mechanical ventilation in COPD patients.
Country: Czech Republic
IXTENT s.r.o. is IT services and technology provider owned 100% by Czech capital. It is active on the European market, with focus on markets in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, and Romania.
IXTENT s.r.o. is based in the Czech Republic, with its headquarters in the city of Prague. There is also the customers service department for middle and east Europe, managed in both Czech and English languages in time interval of 24/365. Subsidiary of IXTENT in Slovakia is located on the outskirts of Slovak capital Bratislava.
The company process has been certified to comply with the Management System Standard ISO 9001:2000. IXTENT provides the folowing services:
IXTENT disposes of process analysts, technicians and applications consultants with the several years of experience in the field and with 60+ large- scale projects delivered. The qualified project management and standard project methodology ensure proper approach to the project delivery and implementation of a solution.
Following are primary supported technologies:
Country: Greece
(FORTH BRI) is located in Ioannina and it has three research directions: Molecular Medicine, Biomedical Technology, and Molecular Epidemiology. Also it aims to promote research on the analysis and application of health systems. FORTH BRI recognising the importance of science, technology and innovation in todays world, is actively pursuing high quality basic research, development of innovative technology, collaborations with industrial partners within and outside Greece, creation of spin-off companies, promotion of specialised services and products, development of Science and Technology Parks, and educational activities in collaboration with universities.
FORTH BRI's research activities cover a variety of subjects and they are classified into the following domains: Biomedical Research. Modelling and simulation of human tissues using applied mathematics methods. Automated Diagnosis. Processing and analysis of biomedical signals (e.g. ECG, EMG) and images (e.g. MRI, ultrasound). Biomagnetism and Biomaterials. Development of phenomenological models for the interpretation of magneto-mechanical characteristics of highly technological ferromagnetic materials. Direct applications include the determination of the role of material properties, biomagnetism, actuator and sensor devices (Fero-fluids, magnetic drug targeting). Bioinformatics.
Analysis of Biological Sequences (DNA, Proteins, etc.) providing better understanding of living organisms, identification of genetic risks and design of the appropriate drugs. Networks. Design, development and operation of networks and network applications especially for Wireless Communication and 3G Applications. Medical Informatics. Use and development of information technologies (Ontologies, lexicons, etc.) for the better storage and exchange of information among heterogeneous medical systems interface technologies (speech to text, text to speech), natural language processing. Most of the activities are based on international collaborations in the framework of European and Nationally funded projects (FP5, FP6, Information Society, etc).
FORTH BRI has participated either as a coordinator or as a major partner in projects like USBone, h-Life, DROMEAS, PLACEBO, ACTIVE HEALTH, CITATION, focusing on early diagnosis, development of intelligent medical systems, telemedicine, in-hospital and out-hospital medical applications, eCommerce, eWork, eLearning, etc.
Coutnry: Greece
The CEnter for REsearch and TEchnology THessalia (CE.RE.TE.TH) is a legal, non-profit entity organized under the auspices of the General Secretariat for Research and Technology (GSRT), of the Greek Ministry of Development. CERETETH was established in January 2006. The Center's main mission is to conduct basic, applied, and technological research that leads to new products and services with industrial, economic and social impact. CERETETH organization includes four Institutes and the Central Administration.
The Institute of Biomedical Research & Technology (BIOMED) aims to cover the area between rapidly developing basic biomedical research and medical applications with the ultimate goal of conducting research that will lead to the development of new treatment planning, processes and methods. Its research activities focus especially on the areas of diagnostic applications, which are based on the developments of genomics and proteinomics, neuroscience, biomedical imaging and radiation. Additionally, it is also interested in the design and development of engineering products with applications in biomechanics and histomechanic rehabilitation. A part of the engineering direction is the design and the utilization of several monitoring tools, sensors and devices for the efficient supervision of patientes health status.
The Institute of biomedical research &Technology (BIOMED) works in collaborative with related research activities and laboratory facilities of the School of Health Sciences Departments of Medicine and Biotechnology. The majority of the associate members of BIOMED are faculty of the University of Thessalia with acknowledged accomplishments in research, development and services. The Institute is participating in a large-scale regional innovation effort project to improve the competitiveness of regional industries and high technology enterprises.
Country: Italy
The Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) – National Research Council – is the leading Italian public institution for research. Its mission is to carry out, promote, spread, transfer and improve research activities in all sectors of knowledge growth and to develop pre-competitive applications.
The CNR scientific network is organised in 11 Departments in Rome and 108 Institutes all over the country, with about 7.000 researchers and employees, and annual expenditure in excess 1 billion euro (50% from public funding, 50% from external third parties, including EU institutions).
Amongst the most recent relevant EU-funded R&D projects specifically related to the area of interest of the project CHRONIOUS is worth mentioning:
The reference Department for the CNR involved in Chronious is the Dipartimento Tecnologie dell'Informazione e delle Comunicazioni (ICT) – Information and Communication Technology Department – in Rome. The ICT Department coordinates the activity of about 30 Institutes with about 350 researchers. Each Institute is connected with a number of clinical and academic partners, that are currently involved in tasks related to validation and dissemination, and in a number of PPP (Public-Private Partnerships).
CNR has developed a comprehensive vision of e-health as a key enabling factor for an innovative paradigm in healthcare, and is committed to generate value to be included in R&D solutions bringing them to the market and citizens through its network of industrial partnerships.
In Italy CNR is the partner of several Ministries in the conception and implementation of projects and initiatives aiming at restructuring central and local public administrations through ICT (just to mention a recently signed agreement funded by the Minister for Innovation and Public Administration in the area of e-health: The role of the Electronic Patient Folder in the Italian ehealth plan).
CNR is the reference partner for the validation of the new Italian ICT communication framework and privacy/security regulations for e-health. Both will become compulsory at the national level in a short time, and the CHRONIOUS project benefits from an advanced insight of their practical implications, acting as a reference testbed for the interoperability of the above regulations, also at the international level.
Its contribution to the CHRONIOUS project will be both in the conceptual and application development and in the validation of systems and prototypes, towards a full takeover of the final product by industry at the national and international level.
Country: Greece
Velti is a leading platform and service provider enabling mobile marketing and advertising, mobile device programming and value-added services for several types of customers including advertising agencies, media groups, mobile operators and large enterprises. Velti is operating in 25 countries with 250 employees more than half of whom are software engineers. Its solution portfolio includes Mobile Marketing and Advertising, Mobile Value-Added Services, Mobile application and interface programming, Content Management System implementation, Enterprise Portals, Business Process Management, Document Management and Business Intelligence. Velti is also specializing in the development of custom communication services based on standard communication protocols (Bluetooth, MMSC connectivity, WAP integration via SMPP, SMPP, CIMD/CIMD2, ParlayX, HTTP Custom), building interoperable solutions between different handheld and portable devices.
R&D activity & EU projects experience: Velti operates a highly innovative R&D department and participates in numerous domestic and International projects employing a large number of developers, engineers and IT experts with wide expertise in the company's area of interest.
Velti is currently leading integration and demonstration activities in the ICTEFIPSANS, a large EU project in autonomic networking systems and applications. It has recently completed a successful participation in the ICTNEUROWEB, an e-health project for healthcare delivery through knowledgebased personalised diagnosis and therapy, undertaking the role of on-line web system developer and platform integrator, along with others like database modelling and design. In the past Velti has also participated in IST-CROSSMARC project.
Velti has also active participation in domestic research projects the most important of them are: the semantic analysis of multimedia information for surveillance applications (SemVeillance) funded by the Greek Information Society, and a project for ambient assisted living funded by the Greek Ministry of Development implementing technologies for the integration of data collection systems coming from smart mobile devices.
Velti has obtained a major expertise in the design and development of customized software solutions of user interfaces, as embedded in applications for both desktop and mobile environments. This expertise, in the implementation and in the definition of application-specific usability attributes, will be used in CHRONIOUS in order to implement part of the user interfaces for the desktop part of the platform. These interfaces, amongst other functionalities, will connect the user with part of the system intelligence services (part of CDSS) that Velti will be responsible for.
Velti also leads a profound role in the IT market by releasing services and developing equivalent software modules to be used in interoperable solutions for complex communication environments. The obtained know-how in the communication API programming will be used in the development of the security services in the communication framework of CHRONIOUS. This will be combined with the security rules to be applied in the repository structures that Velti is also responsible to implement for the desktop version of the system.
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CHRONIOUS project is partially funded by the European Commission.