Extreme mobility: developing a pan-European ASP oriented open mobile platform platform

Abstract

In order to become a commodity for the European society/economy, mobile solutions must provide the five main characteristics: ubiquity, transparency, fundamentality, universality and value governance. This new concept of mobility is called extreme mobility (XMOB). Facing this reality, the European Union has funded the XMOB (2002) an IST (information society technologies) project. XMOB joins the research groups (UPM, DIST), phone operators (Telefonica Data, Telefonica Moviles, INET), consultancy companies (DMR, DMR-IT), industry (PSA, EXEL, WK) and end users (SAMUR, SANITAS, 118 Geneva) to build a platform aimed to host the mobile applications with the following main features: multi- device/channel, multi-network, multi-user, multi-service (ASP-based model), multi-country (federated model) and open-standards (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, 2.5G, 3G, satellite and multiple different devices types.