The Mobile and Wireless Communications Technology Platform, eMobility was established on March 18th 2005. The Platform currently has 216 members and the Steering Board consists of the following members:

Deutsche Telekom AG Ericsson AB France Telecom SA Nokia Telefonica Moviles Vodafone Telecom Italia SpA Siemens AG Alcatel

STMicroelectronics Lucent Technologies - Bell Labs Innovations Philips Motorola DoCoMo Communication Laboratories Europe GmbH TeliaSonera AB Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa SP THALES Communications

There are now almost 200 SME members out of a total of almost 500 members. Membership in eMobility is free and the membership form is available on the website.

To find out more about eMobility go to www.emobility.eu.org

General Assembly

The eMobility General Assembly 3 took place in Brussels on 14 November 2007. All members and non-members were cordially invited to attend. Main items for the meeting:

• Highlights of the eMobility work of the past year
• In-depth presentations on the working group results and plans
• Discussion on plans for the coming year and election of a new Steering Board

The election of the members of the Steering Board of eMobility Technology Platform for the coming period took place during the GA3. The election was on a stakeholder group basis, i.e. eMobility members vote for candidates of their stakeholder group. Currently Industry has 17 seats, Research has 4 seats and SME had 2 seats but it was proposed to the GA to extend SME to 4 seats. This proposal was accepted and thus 4 SME positions on the Steering Board were elected during the General Assembly.

The 4 SMEs elected are:

• Beacon Tech Ltd.
• Iber Wifi Exchange (GOWEX)
• Purple Patch Wireless Ltd.
• Targeting Innovation Ltd.

Targeting Innovation Ltd is also the coordinator of the EPISTEP project and is thus now in a position to even better represent the EPISTEP SME interests in eMobility.

For further information please see on eMobility website

Mission

The Mission of the eMobility platform is:

• To achieve full mobile access to applications for European citizens, building on European strength in wireless communications
• To develop the technology to provide optimal applications relying on the most promising technologies and network resources
• To focus European R&D resources to exploit the coming business opportunities in mobile and wireless to the benefit of the European economy and ensuring eInclusion especially for the new member states.

In this context, the Platform will define and implement a comprehensive research agenda in the mobile and wireless sector to be conducted in Europe with strong co-ordination of the national research efforts as well as the collaboration of key research programmes from other regions of the world. Peer-to-peer relations with Asian and American research programs will also be established to facilitate the emergence of an early consensus and hence to paving the way for successful global standards.

Activities

Activities of the eMobility Platform (existing and planned in short-term):

• Systematic development of the strategy with a progressively growing involvement of sector actors
• Establishment of links with related activities and sectors e.g. broadcasting,
• Active efforts to bring together national and local authorities to promote an environment conducive to the development of the mobile and wireless communications sector in Europe
• Refinement of the Strategic Research Agenda for research and development in mobile and wireless systems beyond 3G
• Investigation of the legal frameworks that could be used as a basis for the organisation of the Platform research

A new Working Group (WG) inside eMobility has been launched, called "Experimental Facilities" . The aim of this new WG is to share the view of eMobility members on "Testbeds and Experimental Facilities"

• Build a common vision on our sector needs for experimentation of ideas, concepts, protocols, addressing mechanisms issued from collborative R&D
   -  collect the needs from current FP6, Eureka,... projects or to come FP7 projects
      (Capitalization on PanLab work and any other initiative)
  
  
• Facilitate the federation of existing or to come European test beds
   -  Identification of existing and to come experimental facilities
   -  proof of concept by connecting some existing testbeds
      (capitalization on NetLab or any other initative)

in order to:

• Enlarge visibility of European research resullts
• Influence standardization process
• Speed-up deployement of such results

A first WG face to face meeting is planned on Monday 18.06 in Brussels,
at the Ericsson offices close to the airport. The meeting will start at 10:30 and stop at 16:00
A second meeting is planned on Wedneday 11.07 at the same location.
Attendance should be confirmed to [email protected]

Links

• eMobility Members
• eMobility SRA
• eMobility past and future events
• eMobility key actors list
• eMobility potential partners
• ETP Background and Commission site
• EC Communication Technologies Unit D1
• EC Wireless and Mobile Systems web page
• EU ETP web site

Conference

• No event

Documents

• SRA August 2006 version 5
• Survey Results
• European Parliament Magazine on 20 March 2006

Newsletters

June 2007: New Newsletter edition and dates of planned meetings of the working groups:
eMobility has now uploaded a new version of the Newsletter to their web site, providing you with plenty of information and an overview of the dates of the next planned meetings of their working groups. Since the Newsletter went to print, the Testing Facilities working group has moved the date and location planned for it's second meeting from 11th July in Brussels to Friday 13th July in Paris (Chairperson: [email protected] ) Yesterday, the Post-IP working group planned a further meeting on 22nd August in Brussels to work further on it's new white paper, which is planned to be finalised towards the end of August.

Download the newsletter from www.emobility.eu.org

eMobility WIKI

An eMobility Wiki tool has been setup to give eMobility members the opportunity to present their company profile and to make their skills visible, in particular with respect to partner search and participation in FP7 project proposals. 60 organisations have already registered on this page and the pages have been accessed over 2200 times.

To access the Wiki please go to: http://wiki.ist-emobility.org