SAFIR pilot SAPHER

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SAFIR pilot SAPHER

• Hazardous Substance Information System with eyes
  and hands free handling by voice-dialogues
• Final SAFIR eventBrussels, IBM
  Forum27.05.2008Dr. Harald KuppelmaierBASF IT
  Services

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Facts and Figures

• BASF The worlds leading chemical company
• Sales 2007 57,951 million
• EBIT 2007 7,316 million
• 95,175 employees (31.12.2007)
• About 150 production sites worldwide
• BASF IT Services
• Sales 2007 405 million Euros
• Around 2,400 employees (31.12.2007)
• Headquarters in Ludwigshafen (Germany) and 30
  locations across Europe
• Solutions and services designed to manage the
  entire IT lifecycle
• Wholly owned subsidiary of BASF, largest IT
  service provider of the BASF Group
• Intention of BASF IT Services SAFIR engagement
• ? Enable BASF IT Services to voice-activate
  industrial systems

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SAFIR Opportunities
Why was this EC project interesting for us?

• Find new fields of application with innovative
  solutions for our Environment, Health and Safety
  competence
• Enable BASF IT Services to voice-activate
  industrial systems
• The whole competence in one boat SAFIR
  consortium
• From research across technology and software
  development to end user know how
• European Commission
• Support, e.g. administrative support for quality
  assurance
• Chance for further contacts, e.g. to
  complementary projects
• EC places us in the position to gain new
  expertise and market potentials

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SAFIR Application SAPHER
Hazardous substance information system

• Target
• Support in handling information on hazardous
  substancesin emergency situations
• Initial situation
• Data queries in several databases and
  applications take too long
• Data queries are only possible via keyboard and
  monitor
• Solution
• Parallel query of different databases with just
  one click or voice command
• On- and offline data access, data source
  independent
• Offer hands eyes free using voice-dialogs
  (graphically, by voice or both parallel)

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SAPHER Scenario
Emergency situation
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SAPHER Application UsersDifferent potential user
situations
Control room
Mission leaders in the field
Field users with inherent protection equipment
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BASF IT Services Contributions
SAFIR project

• Substantial contribution in acquiring the SAFIR
  project
• Leading and coordination of special user
  application domain (WP4)
• Development of application SAPHER
• Enabling of in- and output channels graphically,
  by voice dialog or both parallel
• Implementation of an interface to a Enterprise
  Resource Planning IT system
• Setting up of an open connection interface, data
  source independent
• Allow emergency response users to configure their
  desired data sub sets
• Provide knowledge and experience from
  Environment, Health and Safety projects and our
  process industry expertise for SAFIR
• Open market potentials for the emergency response
  domain, e.g. fire brigades
• First steps to introduce speech processing to the
  process industry

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SAFIR Outcomes
for BASF IT Services

• Building up of relevant knowledge for speech
  processing
• Technologies - applicable hardware - process
  knowledge
• Voice technology offers new opportunities for
  industrial IT-applications
• Combination of our process industry expertise
  with SAFIR speech processing know-how
• Mobile applications are often combined with hand
  eyes free usage
• Increase of data and process quality, saving of
  efforts and time
• Enabling of new processes like the data access
  for fully protected fire fighters
• Results and experiences can be transferred to
  other application areas, such as
• Speech activation of screening in plant
  protection
• Voice controlled logistic processes
• Voice-enabled industrial inspection and
  maintenance
• Voice-enabled office management

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Questions and discussion

• Thank you for your attention.

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Contact

• Dr. Harald Kuppelmaier Manager Master Data and
  Environment Health Safety Solutions
• BASF IT Services Holding GmbHJaegerstraße
  1D-67059 LudwigshafenPhone 49 621 60-42653Fax
  49 621 60-78817Mobile 49 172
  7437722harald.kuppelmaier_at_basf-it-services.comww
  w.basf-it-services.com