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The Company
Research & Development
Software & ICT Solutions
This area of research focuses on activities that advance technical expertise related to Software technologies and their application for providing ICT solutions. The directions pursued are:
- Platforms capable of enhancing service portfolios
- Solutions, integrating multi-vendor information and communication platforms
- Integration and Operation Services for ICT Solutions
Industrial research in this area includes activities in:
- Software architectures
- Practices and methodologies for software systems development.
The objective is to use the tangible and intangible assets for e-Business and e-Government Solutions, Security, Content Management, and Operator Solutions.
Current Projects:
EMPOWER (Support of Patient Empowerment by an intelligent self-management pathway for patients)
EMPOWER develops a modular and standard-based Patient Empowerment Framework which facilitates the self-management of diabetes patients based on PHRs and on context-aware, personalized services. EMPOWER focuses the research and development efforts on a patient-centric perspective that also involves healthcare professionals. EMPOWER provides knowledge-based Self-Management Pathways for diabetes patients and this includes (1) services for the specification and execution of actions to change behavior according to diabetes-specific health care needs and (2) services for monitoring of vital, physical, mental parameters as well as physical and lifestyle activities based on health standards. EMPOWER semantically integrates multiple information sources (EHR/PHR, diabetes guidelines, patterns of daily living) for a shared knowledge model. The Self-Management Pathways facilitate the specification of recommendations that allow specifying individual goals for the patient. Based on these goals, relevant information and their preferences patients can specify their individual diabetes-specific actions. The Self-Management Pathways are an iterative process where executed actions and reported patterns of daily life can be evaluated. Recommendations, goals and actions can be updated iteratively according to current needs and preferences. Finally, the services in EMPOWER embrace semantic interoperability based on health standards e.g. HL7 and IHE profiles. A pilot application in Turkey (hosted by the Ministry of Health) and one in Germany (hosted by a network of GPs) will demonstrate that EMPOWER can interoperate with other health applications.
Intracom Telecom is responsible for delivering mobile and web based Personal Health Applications dedicated to the collection and management of Observations of Daily Living of diabetic patients; for the implementation of a core software component that facilitates multimodality is service provision; and the implementation and demonstration of interoperability between its in-house built and third-party EHR- and PHR-S.
STROKEBACK (Telemedicine System Empowering Stroke Patients to Fight Back)
StrokeBack project develops an automated remote rehabilitation system by blending advances of ICT and practical clinical knowledge that empower the patients and their immediate carer for effective application of rehabilitation protocols in home settings. StrokeBack combines state-of-the-art monitoring devices forming a wireless Body Area Network that enable simultaneous measurement of multiple vital parameters and currently executed movements that are particularly of interest from a stroke rehabilitation point of view. The measured parameters are fused using advanced feature extraction and classification algorithms processed on-body, which denotes the accuracy of the executed exercise. The training parameters along with vital data are stored in a Patient Health Record to which the responsible clinicians and therapists have access so that they can dynamically update the rehabilitation program.
Intracom Telecom is responsible for delivering a Personal Health Record System with open API for third parties to build their added-value services on top of it. Moreover the company is responsible for the implementation of a web based Care Management Platform that will be used by the clinicians to set up and manage the rehabilitation plans of their patients.
ARMOR (Advanced multi-paRametric Monitoring and analysis for diagnosis and Optimal management of epilepsy and Related brain disorders)
In the context of the project a mutliparametric monitoring, analysis, and management solution for patients with epilepsy will be integrated and validated. ARMOR provides a flexible monitoring capability optimized for each patient. The integrated platform will be tested in several case studies and evaluated as a wide use ambulatory monitoring tool for seizures efficient diagnosis and management including possibilities for detecting premonitory signs and feedback to the patient.
Intracom Telecom contributes its in-house developed Electronic Health Record System as a platform to store raw and processed data collected by the measuring units as well as offline analysis results and associated epilepsy models.
FP7-ICT-2009-ICT-248784-STREP "COMET - COntent Mediator architecture for content-aware nETworks"
Studies have shown that the vast majority of Internet use today is for content consumption and service access (data-centric model). However, the current Internet architecture was designed in the 1970s for communication between machines (host-centric model). This mismatch between models frequently forces users to spend more time on how to access content rather than on what content is good for them. Content access is fragmented over many intermediaries (iTunes, BitTorrent, YouTube, IPTV providers, etc.), so users must first choose one and then make sure they have the right tools to finally get the desired content. In contrast, COMET unifies access to content by embracing the data-centric model (decoupling content access from the contentўs location) and hiding intermediary details. COMET is a global, distributed system for streamlined content publishing, content location-independent access, efficient distribution, and device-neutral consumption. With COMET, network operators can become part of the content distribution value chain, content providers can reach wider markets with less cost, and users can easily get better quality content. Besides INTRACOM TELECOM, the COMET consortium consists of two network operators and three universities. INTRACOM TELECOM focuses on the design, implementation, and integration of the COMET system prototype, but is also managing the dissemination, standardization and exploitation of the projectўs results. COMET is co-funded by the European Commission and runs for three years, from January 2010 to December 2012.
NOE-038419 InterMedia - "Interactive Media with Personal Networked Devices"
INTERMEDIA seeks to progress beyond home and device-centric convergence toward truly user-centric convergence of multimedia. Our vision is The User as Multimedia Central: the user as the point at which services (multimedia applications) and the means for interacting with them (devices and interfaces) converge. Key to our vision is that users are provided with a personalized interface and with personalized content independently of the particular set of physical devices they have available for interaction (on the body, or in their environment), and independently of the physical space in which they are situated. Our approach to this vision is to investigate a flexible wearable platform that supports dynamic composition of wearable devices, an ad-hoc connection to devices in the environment, a continuous access to multimedia networks, as well as adaptation of content to devices and user context.
INTERMEDIA is a Network of Excellence project within EU's Sixth Framework Programme co-funded by the European Commission. It started on October 2006 and will end September 2010.
FP7-2008-ICT-216259-STREP "SmoothIT - Simple Economic Management Approaches of Overlay Traffic in Heterogeneous Internet Topologies"
Peer-to-peer (P2P) systems generate a significant and growing percentage of Internet traffic. Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are struggling to handle the new load, while P2P systems keep striving for better performance. Both sides have so far approached their problems selfishly (e.g. with traffic shaping and application-level Quality of Service prediction accordingly), so progress has been marginal and expensive. In contrast, SmoothIT advocates a cooperative approach where ISPs and P2P systems exchange information in order to lower ISP costs and increase P2P performance. For example, ISPs would efficiently perform traffic engineering, if they knew the P2P system flows. Likewise, P2P systems would efficiently increase performance, if they knew the ISP network state. However, in SmoothIT, such information trading does not rely on faith, but on market and game-theoretic principles to promote fairness and prohibit misbehaviour. Besides INTRACOM TELECOM, the SmoothIT consortium comprises five universities and three ISPs. INTRACOM TELECOM is mainly active in design, implementation, and integration of the SmoothIT prototype as well as the project's public relations. SmoothIT is co-funded by the European Commission and will run for three years, from January 2008 to December 2010.
Previous Projects:
AAL-2008-1 "PAMAP: Physical Activity Monitoring for Ageing People"
The PAMAP project started on 1st July 2009 and is set to run for a period of 3 years. It is partially funded by the Ambient Assisted Living Joint Undertake and the Greek General Secretariat for Research & Technology. The consortium consists of 5 partners from 3 EU countries.
The major objective of the project is to develop a system that will support out-hospital Physical Rehabilitation and Physical Activity Monitoring Services. From an architectural perspective, the system has two separate conceptual parts: the information management (the part most visible to the systems users) and the underlying information acquisition system (the sensor network and associated information extraction technology):
From the information management point of view, the PAMAP system consists of the infrastructure and the applications used to monitor physical activity, present information, and provides an easy way for the main system users (the monitored subject, her family and friends, and the clinicians) to interact. The mobile platform consists of the sensor network and a control unit that links the sensors and several different I/O devices.
An interactive TV (i-TV) interface is used to enable patients to gain access to their health record and the details of the rehabilitation plan to be followed. The i-TV solution is used to increase the acceptance and ease the learning amongst elderly users, who generally are not very familiar with computers.
Another important part of the PAMAP system is the web application for collecting and managing the information in the Electronic Health Record (EHR). Apart from the motion and activity information the EHR also includes a comprehensive summary of the medical record of the monitored subjects.
INTRACOM TELECOM is responsible for the development of the web EHR and the i-TV solutions of the PAMAP system.
FP7-2007-ICT- 216031-IP "CD MEDICS: Coeliac Disease Management, Monitoring and Diagnosis using Biosensors and an Integrated Chip System"
The CD-MEDICS IP project started on 1st February 2008 and is set to run for a period of 4 years. It is sponsored under the EU Framework 7 programme to 9.5 Million Euros and has 20 partners from 10 countries currently participating. The objective of CD-MEDICS is to obtain an instrument that will be a low-cost non-invasive intelligent diagnosis system that can be present at the point of care, such as a doctors' surgery. Specific technical and scientific objectives of CD-MEDICS are:
- The demonstration of usefulness of anti-glutenin antibodies to improve sensitivity and selectivity in the screening and diagnosis of coeliac disease and development of immunoassays and HLA typing protocols.
- The development of a generic genosensor array micromodules for HLA typing.
- The development of individual micromodules for sample treatment, mixing, metering, nucleic acid amplification, HLA typing and autoantibody detection.
- The development of a nanostructured microsystem with multiple sample treatment modules integrated with the sensor arrays on a single disposable device.
- The provision of a communication infrastructure that seamlessly links the instrument through one of many potential methods ensuring that communication capabilities are always maximised.
INTRACOM TELECOM is responsible for the communication infrastructure of the portable instrument and its integration with Hospital Information Systems.
CIP-ICT-PSP-2007-1 225025 "NEXES: Supporting Healthier and Independent Living for Chronic Patients and Elderly"
Ageing and changes in lifestyles are the main causes for the increasing prevalence of chronic disorders in Europe. This leads to further disfunctions of healthcare systems such as redundant visits to healthcare facilities, for instance. In this context, there is a broad consensus on the need for reorganizing the delivery of care and social support services for chronic patients, with the support of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). The objective of NEXES is the extensive deployment and sustainability of several integrated care services, representative of a broad spectrum of health problems, from those affecting citizens at risk or early stages of the disease to those characterising patients with advanced chronic disorders. The services that NEXES will deploy are grouped in four programs:
- "Well being and rehabilitation": this programme promotes healthy life-styles and active physical exercise in clinically stable chronic patients. ICTs contribute to enhance their self-management and to improve compliance with prescribed treatments.
- "Enhanced Care support": this programme targets more specifically frail patients with advanced chronic diseases and several comorbid conditions and facing high risks of hospitalization.
- "Home hospitalisation & early discharge": This program brings forward the potential of already existing home hospitalization services in patients with exacerbations of their chronic conditions by applying e-support.
- Support diagnostic and/or therapeutic procedures: primary care professional attending chronic patients benefit from increased accessibility to specialists and consultants.
INTRACOM TELECOM is responsible for the technical support of the clinical services that will be deployed in the context of NEXES
IST-1999-10825 "VESPER - Virtual Home Environment for Service Personalization and Roaming Users "
VESPER defined and demonstrated a service architecture for the provision of VHE across a multi-provider, heterogeneous network and system infrastructure. The project's technical approach was based on the models and service paradigms of TINA and the use of intelligent agent technologies for supporting roaming users with service portability, session mobility and service scalability.
http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/CCSR/IST/Vesper/
IST-1999-20117 "INTERNODE - Interworking of Nomadic Multi-domain Services"
INTERNODE specified, designed, and implemented a Service Provisioning Support platform for creating multi-domain services for nomadic users-E-business, nomadic Internet and intranet access, personalised services. The platform allows secured mobile data VPNs over GPRS and WLAN by supporting provisioning, access control, configuration of security gateways, charging, and PKI.
Eurescom Project P1101 "Always-On Heterogeneous Services"
The project focused on concepts for adding value to future broadband Always-On (AO) mass-market services and how these services can be delivered to multiple heterogeneous devices. The project's Device Unify Service prototype was used to exploit the characteristics of AO services and provide access to online services from multiple devices-phone, PDA, PC, TV-and from any location.
http://www.eurescom.de/public/projects/P1100-series/P1101/default.as
Eurescom Project P1106 "E-commerce Impacts on Service and Network Operations and Management"
The project assessed the impact of e-commerce methods and technologies on OSS and developed an e-commerce framework for Service and Network Management covering fulfilment (provisioning), assurance (management, operations) and billing, supporting performance aspects such as SLA and Jeopardy management and allowing integration with legacy environments.
http://www.eurescom.de/public/projects/P1100-series/P1106/default.asp
IST-1999-10069 "AIT-WOODDES - Workshop for Object Oriented Design and Development of Embedded Systems"
WOODDES extended UML (StateCharts or hierarchical state-machines) to be used for the development of embedded systems with real-time requirements. The project focused on tool development that may be used in the design, validation and integration of such systems.
IST-1999-20688 "COSIBA - Best Practice Experiment for Co-Simulation Backplanes"
COSIBA addressed the common needs of major telecom houses for system development with the use of several specification languages (SDL, C, VHDL) at different abstraction levels. The development of the co-modelling backplane allows the reduction of time-to-market and increases the final product quality through the use of IP components and reusable subsystem blocks.
IST-2000-25031 "CORAS - A Platform for Risk Analysis of Security Critical Systems"
CORAS developed a tool-supported methodology for model-based risk assessment and analysis of security-critical systems, integrating aspects from partly complementary risk assessment methods, state-of-the-art modelling methodology and a UML based specification language for security risk assessment.
Start of pageEurescom Project P924 "Distribution and Configuration Support for Distributed PNO Applications"
P924 developed a methodology for bridging the gap between component specification and their configuration and distribution on middleware platforms. The project also defined concepts and a notation for expressing the distribution and static and dynamic configuration aspects for distributed applications and supportive engineering capabilities of services platforms.
http://www.eurescom.de/ public/projects/P900-series/P924/default.asp
IST-1999-20960 "ATTRACT - Advanced Teleworking Techniques and Tele-services for Insurance Agents and Customers"
ATTRACT introduced value-added technologies and business components for the development of enhanced tele-working environments in the insurance sector and the provision of value-added customer services.
IST-1999-27012 "COSMOS - Construction Site Mobile Operation Support"
COSMOS provided a complete solution integrating software and hardware modules for supporting the business processes and the workflow requirements of companies with activities in environments that lack terrestrial communication infrastructure or have frequent relocating activities.
IST-2001-33325 "e-Sharing - Resource Sharing Constellations"
e-Sharing designed, developed and evaluated a service for the efficient management and allocation of a virtual shared resources pool. The project developed an intelligent decision support system that allows companies to describe tasks that need be accomplished and decides on a combination of resources needed for their accomplishment.
IST-1999-20751 "UP-TV - Ubiquitous Personalised Interactive Multimedia TV Systems and Services"
UP-TV developed basic technologies for TV Anytime systems and services. The project addressed the identification of media content that has to be recorded, the placement of those media assets onto single and networked media servers, and the organisation of an efficient and comfortable access to these assets.
http://wwwcs.uni-paderborn.de/pc2/projects/up-tv/
IST-1999-11172 "PISTE - Personalised, Immersive Sports TV"
PISTE addressed the provision of tools based on digital video analysis and processing, 3D objects modelling, and 3D-visualisation and animation. PISTE designed a virtual scene modelling language for creating augmented reality views of events, developed tools for the encoding and playback of MPEG-4 interactive multimedia, and set requirements for the implementation of MPEG-4 playback on consumer equipment.
http://www.tnt.uni-hannover.de/js/project/eu/piste/
IST-1999-11306 "ARCHEOGUIDE - Augmented Reality-based Cultural Heritage On-site Guide"
ARCHEOGUIDE provided a multi-user Augmented Reality system for visitors of cultural heritage sites. It presented users with computer-generated 3D reconstructions of ruined sites at Olympia, Greece, among others, by augmenting the "real world" sites. The system could automatically launch audiovisual presentations depending on the user's position, orientation and declared interests.
http://www.dl-forum.de/englisch/projekte/projekte_eng_510_ENG_HTML.htm
IST-1999-11038 "iMEDIA - Intelligent Mediation Environment for Digital Interactive Advertising"
iMEDIA provided an intelligent mediation platform for enhancing consumer-supplier relationships by establishing the necessary methodologies, practices and technologies for broadcasting personalized interactive advertising, analysing interactive consumer behaviour, and empowering interactive TV viewers with total control over their private personal data.
http://www.eltrun.aueb.gr/content/projects/p_imedia.html
"Real-time quotes"
Real-time Quotes provides real time stock quotes from the Athens Stock Exchange.
IST-1999-20962 "ESTIA - Efficient Electronic Services for Tourist in Action"
ESTIA provided the means for the mass adoption of Business-to-Consumer (B2C) e-Commerce in the tourism sector. The project introduced value-added services over the next generation access medium of e-Business such as Mobile Networks, efficiently supporting and bringing closer individuals and vendors in the digital tourism economy.
"ACTIVE SME - Advertising and Commerce Through Internet in the context of Virtual Enterprise Study of Market Environment"
The project provided European less-favoured small-to-medium retailer enterprises with a convenient, reliable and cost-effective way of getting into on-line sales. The success of the pilot stage encouraged the launching of the market validation phase. The scope of the initial R&D phase broadened sectorally and geographically.
http://www.eltrun.aueb.gr/content/projects/p_activesmes.html
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