On march 8, the Freeband Awareness project held a plenary meeting at the Ericsson premises in Rijen. Keynote speaker was Edwin van der Star from Vitaphone company, giving a very interesting talk about the difficulties and possibilities of creating commercial telemonitoring services in healthcare.

Also interesting was a talk by Erwin Fielt, explaining the juridical boundaries for context-aware applications. Basically, context awareness is about generating and using knowledge about a subject user, while privacy laws aim at restricting knowledge generation about specific users. The discussions showed that possible problems are likely to be solved one way or another, but that this will not be without discussions or technical adaptations.