Extreme Mobility: Developing a Pan- European ASP Oriented Open Mobile Platform
María Fernanda Cabrera-Umpiérrez, María Teresa Arredondo, Rosa Ibanez, Pablo Argaiz · 2004
In order to become a commodity for European society/economy, mobile solutions must provide five main characteristics: ubiquity, transparency, fundamentality, universality and value governance. This new concept of mobility will be hereinafter called Extreme Mobility (XMOB). Facing this reality, the European Union has funded XMOB (l), an IST (Information Society Technologies) project. XMOB joins research groups (UPM, DIST), phone operators (Telefhica Data, Telefhica Mbviles, INET), consultancy companies (DMR, DMR-IT), industry (PSA, EXEL, WK) and end users (SAMUR, SANITAS, 118 Genova) to build a platform aimed to host mobile applications with the following main features: multi- devicekhannel, multi-network, multi-user, multi-service (ASP-based model), multi-country (federated model) and open-standards based (Java/J2EE compliant). The benefits and outputs of the platform are being validated through the development of two vertical applications (healthcare and logistics) involving 2G, 232, 3G, satellite and multiple