• Enhanced European Competitiveness
  
• Strengthening ties between European academic research institutes and telecommunication industrial organisations
  
• Contributing to standards through the use of the state of the art and suggested standards enhancements.
  

PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION

The project was organised into five main work packages Overall Architecture,  Integration of Heterogeneous Networks,  Context-aware Network Service
Provisioning and Enabling Pervasive Services. Another package focused on project administration and the final package related to dissemination, training, standardisation and integration.

TSSG's main focus was in the  Enabling Pervasive Services work package with Kevin Doolin as the work package leader, Robert Mullins an activity leader (Pervasive Service Management). Other TSSG members also contributed to cross work package integration and realising the work package deliverables (documentary  and implementation). TSSG also had some participation in the integration and evaluation package.

The focus of the work that TSSG participated in was a good fit for PCS as it centred on the management and infrastructure required for effective service delivery. The main areas were context management, service composition, user preferences, user privacy and deployment.

PROJECT ACHIEVEMENT

The project finished in December 2008 having been finally audited in November 2008. The project's overall effectiveness and delivery of stated aims was rated highly and the auditors' reported stated that :
“The project has produced a satisfactory set of results. Achievements, milestones and deliverables are in line with the technical annex. All deliverables have been submitted timely, reflect a good level of work, and provide a good overall documentation of the project architecture, implementation, and demonstrator.”