IS-ACTIVE

The project emphasizes the role of the home as care environment, by providing real-time support to patients. IS-ACTIVE proposes a combined technological solution, which uses intelligent miniaturized inertial sensing used for ambulatory human movement analysis, and wireless communication.
The IS-ACTIVE sensor-based system is meant to provide the patients:

An effective sensing system for daily use, which analyses in real-time their physical activity and condition;
An easy-to-use interface and a natural feedback, so that they become easily aware about the importance of self-management.

Field trials will be conducted in different locations and their results are expected to provide qualitative and quantitative indications on the system accuracy, robustness,reliability and usability, together with assessing the user experience regarding the motivation in self-managing the chronic condition.

Objectives

The general objective of IS-ACTIVE is to devise a person-centric healthcare solution for patients with chronic conditions – especially elderly people – based on miniaturised wireless inertial sensors, which provide distributed motion capture and intelligent recognition of activities and situations.
The home becomes the main care environment, where patients can receive real-time feedback in order to monitor, self-manage and improve their physical condition according to their specific situation.

Expected results and impact

IS-ACTIVE aims at producing tangible results in the form of fully-functional prototypes with a relatively short estimated time to market (1-2 years).
The IS-ACTIVE consortium aims to design, build and test systems that can eventually be bought and used by the individuals, instead of being the property of healthcare institutions. IS-ACTIVE will attempt to shift medical device technology into the mainstream consumer electronics market. This implies that there is a strong focus towards ease of use, integration and pricing.

Partners

Partners involved in the IS-ACTIVE project

Organization	Type	Country	Website
University of Twente	R&D	Netherlands	www.utwente.nl
Roessingh Research & Development	R&D / SME / End User	Netherlands	www.rrd.nl
Inertia Technology	R&D / SME	Netherlands	www.inertia-technology.com
Norwegian Centre for Integrated Care and Telemedicine	R&D / End User	Norway	www.telemed.no
NORUT Northern Research Institute	R&D	Norway	www.norut.no
University Hospital Elias	R&D / End User	Romania	www.spitalul-elias.ro
PROSYS PC	R&D / SME	Romania	www.prosyspc.ro

Project name: Inertial Sensing Systems for Advanced Chronic Condition Monitoring and Risk Prevention
Website: www.is-active.eu
Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Paul Havinga, University of Twente (The Netherlands)
Duration: 36 Months
Starting Date: 01.04.2009
Total budget: € 1,814,812
Public contribution: € 1,394,777

Contact

Dr. Raluca Marin-Perianu

E.: raluca.marinperianu@utwente.nl

T.: +31 53 489 3633