Development Tools & PRECIOUS Ecosystem Sample Clauses

Development Tools & PRECIOUS Ecosystem. One of the central concepts of the PRECIOUS platform for future exploitation is its capability to enable a multitude of different stakeholders to work easily and efficiently to the health-related benefit of its users. A key stakeholder group for PRECIOUS are developers: given that more than 45.000 mHealth publishers have been working on solutions for mobile smartphone platforms as of today (Research2Guidance 2015), and therefore it is essential to tailor PRECIOUS to this group in order to obtain and cultivate a competitive advantage in a real-world scenario. The basic concept of how we have addressed this target group is as follows: instead of letting the developers implement their apps in separate applications, we provide them with the tools to realise their ideas within a sandboxed-environment, running each app within PRECIOUS. Apart from the obvious advantages for the users in terms of privacy, security and data aggregation, this gives developers a whole range of new possibilities disburdening rapid-prototyping. First, the concept of the Virtual Individual Model (VIM) fits this development environment perfectly: it gives developers access to a higher-level understanding of user-data, without the need for filtering, adjusting or interpreting as this information is easily available through our interfaces. Second, this concept facilitates the creation of a potential ecosystem, where the main metric and currency to be exchanged is health improvement rather than a sole focus on monetary aspects as it is state-of-the-art as of today. Therefore, it is crucial for this concept to understand the developers’ perspective on our idea, and whether it is future proof in case of further exploitation efforts. In order to test this concept, we’ve created a desktop-based tool – the PRECIOUS simulator - which simulates the environment of a mobile app running within PRECIOUS. It gives developers a powerful tool to generate apps across all mobile platforms, and greatly facilitates access to sensor data provided by PRECIOUS. In other words: developers can very rapidly create prototypes and access potentially difficult and complex data with simple method calls to our interface.