Paolo Inchingolo President Open Three (O3) Consortium Higher Education in Clinical Engineering

1. Open Systems Reference Architectures, Standards and Platforms for Independent Living and Active ageing: a proposal Paolo Inchingolo President Open Three (O3) Consortium Higher Education in Clinical Engineering DEEI University of Trieste Trieste Italy president@O3consortium.eu FP7 ICT Challenge 7: Info-Days Brussels Information Days 15 & 16 January 2007

2. How to achieve the expected impact • Enabling cost-effective and trusted multi-vendor solutions through a set of open standards and application platforms • Open-Standards • few but realistically diffusible standards, without black zones of application • Open-source (as much as possible) & double-licenses system • Join all the serious Open-Source European Initiatives in the health/AAL fields • Increase cooperation with US and Japanese analogous R&D programs • Strong involvement of SMEs and large industries in open-source industry-university co-production and new service models • Enabling multi-vendor trusting effective solution through • open standards and • open-source • Facilitating global and multi-lingual application platforms through • open source and • interoperability integration profiles and actors • Facilitating technology usage for elderly (and disable) people

3. How to achieve the expected impact • Enabling seamless and reliable system integration of devices and services into the home, on the move or at work • Find technological and methodological solutions to be easily shared at home, on the move and at work environments • Improve wireless integration of sensors and actuators with access points at home, on the move and at work • Simplify networking and trusting rules • Generalization of networking means and protocols in the e-health public systems, at home, on the move and at work • Simplify trusting mechanisms and rules while increasing safety in a complex hospital – RHIO – homecare – mobile - work environment • Interoperate through integration profiles and actors • “Copying” and/or using Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) Model • R&D on IHE Laboratory (LAB) Domain • R&D on IHE Cardiology & vital signs monitoring Domains • R&D on IHE Patient Care Devices (PCD) Domain • R&D on a new IHE Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) Domain • Studying and prototyping new devices for AAL and vital signs’ monitoring • Creating an European Living-Lab for Independent Living and Active ageing

4. Target Users, Objectives and Key issues • Target Users:People with Age-related impairments at Home, on the Move, at Work • Find common solutions for independent living of elderly people by • Enabling them to be in contact with the world (with the wanted people!) • Monitoring them at home and on the move, collect and save centrally their data and react when necessary • Enabling them to work from home using efficient ICT solutions • Objectives and key issues:Develop an open standards-based approach for integrating independent living and active ageing solutions • Building on and extending existing standards and middleware • Simplify, unify, reduce in number the existing and/or new standards AND set-up effective interoperability protocols • Promote, collect, write and integrate open-source-based middleware • New architectures, standards and guidelines where needed • Concentrate on clear guidelines of HTA, HT deployment and education to technology • Seamless integration of required components and services (@home, on the move) • Careful evaluation and implementation of standard & interoperability solutions • Self-configuration and minimal maintenance solutions • Extend existing self- and remote-configuration & maintenance techniques to AAL and vital CRTL • Reliable and trusted systems, privacy • Extend existing good solutions to and update for AAL, vital control, remote work, mobile states