The GAZETTE
 
 Issue nr. 2, Guest editor: CyberFab
 
 SAPHIRE NEWSLETTER
 
 Date: June 2006  

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The Saphire Gazette is a quarterly publication of the Saphire project for dissemination purposes. Saphire is a Specific Targeted Research Project (STREP) co-financed by the European Commission and the Sixth Framework Programme, under Priority 2.4.13 for "Strengthening the Integration of the ICT research effort in an Enlarged Europe" Focus: eHealth. Project full title is: Intelligent Healthcare Monitoring based on a Semantic Interoperability Platform. Contract no.: IST-27074. Project start: January 2006. Project duration: 30 months. Project web site: http://www.srdc.metu.edu.tr/webpage/projects/saphire
Editorial
  It is clear that the Internet and mobile phones have transformed the way we live.

People can now listen to whatever radios they want, watch TV on their mobiles and I believe they would benefit more from ways to access expertise no matter where they are.

I find it amazing that for shopping, education, entertainment, the place where you live does not seem to be a factor in terms of access, but when it comes to healthcare, there are still huge differences depending on the quality of the local healthcare system.
   
Cyberfab info
  Cyberfab develops products and services for wireless physiological and field data management. We provide sensors and services to speed up decision making processes based on quantitative information for anytime anywhere access to expertise. Our vision is to transform mobile devices (phones, Internet tablets) into real time monitoring and alerting assistants.

The company was started early 2001 to actually connect semiconductor manufacturing to the Internet.

It quickly became obvious that each equipment manufacturer vendor (and subsystem such as vacuum pumps, wafer handling robot etc...) had a proprietary communication protocol, so it turned out to be too complex to have a "uniform way" to extract production equipment information such a s temperatures, flows, pressures etc...
   
Interview
 
 
  Who is Michael Setton?
 
State of the art
  Today’s mobile telecommunications infrastructure makes it possible to take medical monitoring technologies developed for space and military applications to the consumer market.

In fact, NASA demonstrated in 2004, a real-time remote arrhythmia monitoring system prototype to collect real-time electrocardiogram signals from a mobile or homebound patient, combine them with GPS location data, and to transmit this information to a remote station for display and monitoring. More recently, the University of Berkeley as part of the Information Technology for Assisted Living program, showed the use of Bluetooth sensors and camera phones to detect falls of elderly people.
   
Cultural links
  Cyberfab is located in Crolles near Grenoble, in a region called le Dauphiné. To be more accurate, Crolles is located in the Gresivaudan Valley which is known for having been the first place in France to provide hydroelectric power. It has always been fairly industrial as a result but the focus has shifted from paper mills to high technology. It ranges from semiconductors to software and now even biotechnologies are starting to take root. This definitely creates synergies between the different disciplines and is definitely an advantage when one is developing embedded systems that require a mix of competencies.
   


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The Saphire Gazette is a quarterly publication of the Saphire project for dissemination purposes. Saphire is a Specific Targeted Research Project (STREP) co-financed by the European Commission and the Sixth Framework Programme, under Priority 2.4.13 for "Strengthening the Integration of the ICT research effort in an Enlarged Europe" Focus: eHealth. Project full title is: Intelligent Healthcare Monitoring based on a Semantic Interoperability Platform. Contract no.: IST-27074. Project start: January 2006. Project duration: 30 months. Project web site: http://www.srdc.metu.edu.tr/webpage/projects/saphire