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University of Trieste

At the University of Trieste’s Department of Electrotechnics, Electronics and Informatics, the Bioengineering and ICT (BICT) Group with its Higher Education Program in Clinical Engineering (HECE) has a very long tradition in developing, implementing, and testing large network solutions and m2m openstandard interoperable software applications.

These applications are designed for e-health, e-learning, e-government, e-business and e-logistics, in a scalable environment from a single company or institution to trans-national ventures. For over 15 years, the Open System Interconnect and Software Open Source have been some of the University‘s key projects.

To encourage focused open-source development for critical fields like health, emergency management and rescue, with portability through the use of Java and Web technologies, the University of Trieste recently founded the Open Three Consortium – O3. O3 and the other activities of the Group of Bioengineering and ICT operate through international networks of cooperating partners including: the Alpe Adria Initiative University Network (ALADIN), the Adriatic-Balcanic Ionian Cooperation on Biomedical Engineering, the ICT Task Force of the Central European Initiative, among many others.

These networks are promoted and managed by university of Trieste, who is also the European responsible for the development and deployment of the new domain of the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) initiative, called Patient Care Devices (PCD), so that all fixed and mobile medical instrumentation will be m2m interoperable within any context, from the hospital, to the ambulance, to home care, to personal mobile care. With its extensive experience in the GMS/GPRS/UMTS embedded systems, the University of Trieste was the natural leader for this group, which plans to include close cooperation with Trieste-based Telit for the development and implementation of a Java virtual machine, open source primitives, and libraries.

Further integration of other open source software, starting with The Open Three Consortium will promote and market these global applications in the fields of e-health, rescue, risk and disaster management, starting in northeastern Italy and central European (ALADIN-based) regions. Open source is seen as a system to encourage grassroots development of m2m architecture, preventing proprietary corporate development from stagnating the marketplace.