PHIL

Phil is a responsive user interface library specifically designed for aOS applications

Based on pure HTML5, CSS and javascript it is simple to use

Declarative data-binding via Knockout

Can be mixed and matched with other libraries as required

Identity

OpenID Connect is the new open cloud standard for identity provision & single sign-on based on OAuth2.

Use popular cloud identity providers (e.g. Google, Amazon, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter) to identify users to aOS and simplify on-boarding new users with the minimum of effort

Authentication

Choose what suits best

• username & password
• single use code via SMS
• apps (e.g. google authenticator)
• hardware devices (e.g. fido U2F, Yubikey)
• biometric devices (e.g. fingerprint)

Integrate via OAuth2 and with LDAP and other authentication services

Access Control

Consistent access control across all Apps and Services

• Role-based
  • individual, group and app roles
• Permissions at any level
  • hierarchical propagation
• Fine-grained permissions
  • sensible defaults & extensible

Groups

A group combines individuals, roles and other groups for any purpose

Groups and roles can be nested arbitrarily deeply and can have multiple parents

All Actors (user, bot, app, device, service) can be grouped together

Whatever is possible for an individual is possible for a group

• sending and receiving messages
• sharing
• permissions
• having its own system, apps ...

Invitations

Invite people to become contacts and/or to sign up for your aOS-based system

Send via conversation centre, email, text message or other messaging system (e.g. instant messaging) as appropriate

Notifications & Alerts

A configurable service including app and top bar plugin through which apps notify the user when things happen in their environment

Notification rules settings app allows user configuration of rules and actions in response to notifications received

Appflows

Produce anything:

from simple self-service questionnaires to to complex rules-based, branching & personalised assessments

from business process automation to real-time, personalised and multifactorial decision support

Uses a intuitive & fluent Domain Specific Language with editor auto-complete etc.

Smart Books

Defined in declarative domain-specific language

Automatically generated UI forms for viewing & editing

Highly-flexible: Smart Books made from cards and other Smart Books, composable to any depth and reuseable, add in and change items at any time

Semantically rich: data items linked to ontologies to avoid semantic drift

Languages

Simply switch between languages in your profile

All UI text derived from standardised I18n translation templates

Fully extensible

Referrals

Send referrals to organisations and services defined in the Resource Centre

Receive and accept referrals from external systems (e.g. GP primary care system)

Generate standard tasks on acceptance of referrals, including feedback to referrer

Smart Things

Link up enviroment sensors, assistive devices, activity monitors, alarms, medical devices, cameras...whatever you need

Smart Agents can monitor streams from all devices, as well as apps & services to make sense of all the data and identify potential problems early & alert appropriate people to take proactive action

Achievements

A gamification service which awards achievement trophies to your users

Fully extensible to any triggering actions and time-periods

Integrated with notifications

Ratings

A generic ratings service to include in cards

Used in Resource Centre and Backpack

Average of all user ratings displayed

Comments

A generic comments service to add to your items

Used in the journal, planner, backpack and resource centre apps

• Bots
• Smart Agents

Self-service booking

Create free slots for self-service booking in your planner

Book slots in other's planners via text message conversation with Sam Bot

or visit a person's planner online and book directly yourself

Smart Assessments & Questionnaires

Use Appflows to define and auto-generate rules-based assessments & questionnaires

Pre-populated with existing data and live data from connected sensors & devices

No need to repeat yourself & no irrelevant sections and questions

Quick and easy for self-service

Instructions

Apps provide input channels and triggers with a defined set of fields of specific data-types

Predicates (field - operator - value), which can be combined, are tested on each trigger to determine when to trigger an instruction

Apps and services provide output channels and actions with a defined set of parameters

Trigger field values are available to actions via variable interpolation

Settings

Exensible service to record & make use of user preferences & preferences

Smart Books provides the user interface

Add new sections to support your Apps & Services

Employ the simple API to store & access settings data