NG Collaborative Working Environments in Remote and Rural Areas

Collaborative Working Environments

Call 5 Preparatory Workshop April 13th 2005

Carlos Ralli UcendoTelefónica I+D

Index

eRural Reference Scenario

Ad-hoc Rural Networks (ARNs)

Key Technical Areas Upper Layer Middleware

Collaboration Tools

Validating Applications

Other Challenges

Remote & Rural Settings Scenario

CWE to increase co-workers efficiency & improve processes

Several Specific issues when working in rural/remote locations

eRural Example Applications Rural inspections, Fishery and/or Forestry inventory. A Company offering products in customers remote premises

Increase Business success (product data, support information) Head Office, Branch offices and on move commercials (dyn. workflows)

Livestock Sanitary Services Company Save Financial and Human resources Sensors, location, wearable computers, Software Agents, Communities

Platforms to deal with Humanitarian Aid Improve Coordination and operability of Emergency groups Compilation, Process and distribution real time data Multimodal Interfaces, wearable computers

Remote & Rural Settings Scenario (II)

e-Rural Expert Group Vision 2 landscape architects in a car evaluating a windfarm project Interaction: Head Office, Environmentalists groups, HW, SW Agents

Consider Local Knowledge: Ad-hoc Communities Provide public information about environmental care actions

Complete story-line & details: eRural Expert Group Results

Augmented

Reality Interface

Motorized

Camera

Eagles

Route

Eagles Disturbing

Element(Environmentalists)

GPS

Mobile

Ad-Hoc Rural Networks (ARNs)

Short/medium range networks used by in-field workers & devices External Connectivity: Wireless Mobile & Wireless Fixed Internal Topology: Short range communication methods ARN Gateway: Signalling, Policies, Profiles & Status Key Features:

Reconfigurability: Seamless Assembly/Disassembly of Device/Terminals Autonomy: Service provision while Disconnected

Upper Layer Middleware

Enable Multimedia Rich Collaboration Services

Make Applications & Services aware of: Advanced Network Services (QoS, Mobility, Security) ARNs Reconfigurability & Autonomy Context Awareness Technologies Advanced Devices & Terminal Capabilities

Developed over a 4G Service Network Platform End-to-end transparent communications (IPv6) Discovery, selection and aggregation of Access Networks Vertical Roaming (IPv6 Mobility) Terminal or Session Mobility: SIP/IMS Mobility QoS Management, Secured connections, multicast, etc.

Collaboration Tools

Services Components Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Reusable and Interoperable Service & Application Components

Information and other Resources Data and Resources Dynamic discovery and allocation Grids, Web services, P2P data sharing Ad-hoc Communities: Peers discovery

Data Exchange & Presentation Semantic compatibility. Models & Modeling techniques Security: IPR, Privacy, Integrity, Encryption, non-repudiation, etc. Multimodal Context aware Interfaces (Contextualization, Ambient Int) Augmented Reality: VR elements overlaying real scenarios

Address Current and New Rural Scenarios (End-user involvement)

P2P: Peers (equal entities) directly exchange service data

Person-to-person, person-to-machine, machine-to-machine

Validating Applications

Rural CWE are innovative & complex environments Continuous Tests are needed to provide feedback to designers/devel. RLL: End-users involved since the beginning in the research process.

Performance and Integration Trials Why: Test Platform & Collaboration tools Where: Distributed/virtual Laboratory (Large Testbeds) Who: Developers What: Platform/Collaboration tools (isolated and combined)

Rural Living Labs (RLL) Why: Concrete & Validate Vision about CWE in rural settings Where: Rural Living Labs involving real users Who: Developers + In-field rural workers What: Incremental Usable Environments

Other Challenges

Business/Organizational Challenges CWE also to improve company processes

Enterprise Virtual Communities: Avoid work replication & boost innovation Efficient Data discovery/allocation Complex Intelligent SW Agents might be able to update Workflows

Create a platform for equal Cooperation relationships P2P stands for Peers = equal collaborators Centralized services are not adequate for such relationships

Create of Real Added Value profitable Services. A must for feasible and sustainable CWE

Social Challenges Remote and Rural areas will demand user-friendly CWE platforms. Education using traditional & E-learning tools and IT familiarization

actions are needed prior to deploy full working CWE in rural areas. Consider cooperation at a European and Global Scale in order to share knowledge and boost economic growth in undeveloped areas.

Thanks!

Questions ?

Remote Settings & Rural Areas Scenario main contributors:

Boriana koleva University of Nottingham bnk@cs.nott.ac.uk Liliana Casallas Hewlett Packard liliana.casallas@hp.com Mariano Navarro Tragsatec mnc@tragsatec.es Preben Morgensen Aarhus University

pmogensen@daimi.au.dk Luigi Fusco European Space Agency luigi.fusco@esa.intJohn Nolan European Commission john.nolan@cec.eu.int Carlos Ralli (Rapporteur) Telefónica I+D ralli@tid.es

Expert Group Contact:

Isidro Laso European Commissionisidro.laso@cec.eu.int