Luxembourg in ITEA

SMEs make up half of the manpower of all ITEA projects, so the ITEA Board is proud that SMEs are also among the success stories to receive an award. The partners in the MoSHCA project developed mobile health assistants for different applications, in particular rehabilitation and epilepsy. The SensiStep delivers real-time information about the strain a patient places on his/her leg while performing an exercise. For Epilepsy MoSHCA developed signal processing to analyse and classify sounds to detect the low signal which indicates the onset of an epilepsy attack. MoSHCA is a project by SMEs and led by an SME that has resulted in a long list of innovations and immediate impact on the market.

The ITEA Board appreciates the content-delivery framework developed in CAM4Home allowing users and contents providers to deliver rich multimedia experiences. Its ‘create-once, deliver-anywhere’ approach enables ubiquitous access to any contents on any device through all networks. Key innovations comprise the metadata framework, an open service platform and domain-specific devices such as content analysis, adaptation and delivery through heterogeneous networks. Exploitation includes: online gaming with Facebook-like updates, games ratings and new friend notifications; improved management of live webcasts; and live sports-events production with automated media asset management for the 2012 London Olympics.

The ITEA 2 Board recognised the key added value of the EPAS project on innovation and standardisation of card-payment protocols. The project consortium delivered an acquirer protocol, a retailer protocol and a terminal management protocol. The major result is that this is the first card-payment protocol to become an ISO 20022 standard. This topic and the associated results have such societal and business importance that the consortium decided to set up an ad-hoc structure EPASOrg, to maintain the standard and support implementations in the context of the Single Euro Payments Area.