Hydra is affilliated with the following programs and organisations:
The Hydra coordinater FhG FIT is a member of ARTEMISIA, the association for R&D actors in the field of ARTEMIS: Advanced Research & Technology for EMbedded Intelligence and Systems.
The Hydra middleware allows developers to create inclusive applications with a high degree of accessibility for all. The Hydra project supports the Commissions campaign: eInclusion - be part of it!
The Hydra project is part of the Cluster of European projects on the Internet of Things. The Cluster aims to promote a common vision of the Internet of Things.
Heinz-Josef Eikerling, Gernot Gräfe, Florian Röhr,Siemens AG SIS C-LAB and Walter Schneider, Paderborn University C-LAB, Germany:
This paper examines issues and requirements stemming from the implementation of disease management systems using the Hydra Embedded Middleware. Such systems critically depend on acceptance, costefficiency and other criteria that – through those requirements – are addressed by the Hydra multi-domain middleware. Hydra aims at the seamless integration of embedded systems such as bio-medical sensors and other domain-specific and generic equipment.
The paper was presented at the HEALTHINF 2009 (International Conference on Health Informatics), 14-17 January, 2009 in Porto, Portugal.
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The Hydra project is co-funded by the 
