Ensemble

KICK-OFF MEETING
Prato December 16th 2008

Technical platform in PRATO

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Service
DBMS Platform

SMS engine

Municpality E-mail
Offices engine

Internet

GSM

Citizen
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SMTP
E-mail queue
Newsletter Newsletter Manager
admin
engine
Interface SMS queues SMS

Manager

Newsletter Citizen
editor
Newsletter
DBMS

User Subscribe/Unsubscribe Incoming SMS Processing SMS sending API

API modules - API

Existing Back-office HW/SW modules

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Telco. API

SMS queues SMS -Telnet

Manager - propr. protocol GSM

Citizen

Internal
API
- HTTP
Regular expression
recognizer

CFG file

Redirection to specific SW
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Service already implemented:

- Internal purposes
- Alerting and appointment notification
- Traffic alert notification (demo)
- Administrative procedure notification (demo)
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Traffic alert notification:

- Subscription via SMS (demo)
- subscription via web (demo)
- message sending by the operator (demo)
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Application status notification:

Pedestrian area permission release and expiring
notification (demo)
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Platform developments:
-Identification of needs:
- bidirectonal interaction ?
- MMS ?
- Web chatting ?
-Potential issues:
-Pricing schemes
-Too big efforts for adaptation work
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Adaptation already planned:

-Periodic user subscription fee

-From SMS to MMS

What else ?.....pilot scenario needs

to be clarified and defined.
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Another interesting instrument

The
T-comunico
Service

(demo)
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Possible usage

-Promoting the Ensemble services

-Additional channel for campaigns
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Next important step

Technical:
Define the needs for the technical platform
• define the whole service life-cycle
• Define needed implementations considering:
• costs
• available budget for technical work
• involvement of external company that developed
the existing SMS platform