CleverGuard
CleverGuard starts with the commercially available, CLEMAP One smart meter and the corresponding IOT-cloud infrastructure, allowing advanced NILM detection and load disaggregation monitoring. Adding ...
Read moreObjectives
The CleverGuard system is a novel smart-home-monitoring solution for seniors and their caregivers. By measuring and analysing the electric energy consumption of the household, the activities of daily living of the residents are derived, using an easily retrofitable low cost smart meter. Short and long term deviations from the daily/weekly routine are detected. Depending on the urgency a notification or alert to relatives and/or formal caregivers is issued in an user friendly and secure way. Due its non-visible character, the solution is non-stigmatizing, and fosters security, and peace of mind for all stakeholders.
Expected results and impact
Cleverguard supports the ubiquitous desire of most elderly persons to live as long as possible self-determined and independent. It targets this desire through three main aspects: safety, prevention and data. It provides: 1) Continuous monitoring of appliance usage and related activities of residents, using electric energy consumption low maintenance smart meter in combination with sophisticated data analytics; 2) Notification of abnormal situations and early prevention of potential upcoming risks; 3) Activity status information of appliance usage, activity patterns and their variations.
Partners
Partners involved in the project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| CLEMAP AG | Business | Switzerland | www.clemap.ch |
| Vicino | Business | Switzerland | www.vicino-luzern.ch |
| Hochschule Luzern T&A, iHomeLab | R&D | Switzerland | www.ihomelab.ch |
| Korian Belgium | End User | Belgium | www.korian.be/ |
| Telecom-IT | Business | Belgium | www.telecom-it.be/ |
| Bay Zoltán Nonprofit Ltd. for Appl. Research | R&D | Hungary | www.bayzoltan.hu/ |
| Inspiring Culture Kft | Business | Hungary | www.inspiringculture.org/ |
- Project name: ICT solution based on energy data for protecting elderly at home, staying safe and
independently (CleverGuard) - Website: www.cleverguard.care
- Coordinator: CLEMAP AG, Switzerland
- Duration: 30 Months
- Starting Date: 01.04.2021
- Total budget: € 2 555 839
- Public contribution: € 1 422 429
Objectives
To get a urine sample for medical diagnosis is unworthy and painful for elderly who suffer from incontinence or/and dementia, because they are left alone for a long time on the toilet or because of applying a catheter. Ucollect will develop a comfortable and
wearable solution to collect urine with a notification function. At the end of the project, a tested prototype should be available. This solution will relief the daily routine of caregivers, will save time for other important tasks like emotional affection and will
support mobility and independency of the elderly. But most of all it will protect the dignity of affected persons.
Expected Results and Impact
A physical prototype including a sensor and an app will be developed and the proof of concept will be done. A business plan and a roadmap for the further development will be created, so that the product will come to market-ready in two additional years. The product will relief the caregivers in their strict schedules and reduce their bad feelings when leaving the elderly alone. It will support the autonomy of the elderly.
Partners
Partners involved in the project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences | R&D | Austria | www.fhv.at |
| Brønderslev Municipality | End Users | Denmark | |
| Texible GmbH | SME | Austria | www.texible.at |
| LifeSense Group B.V. | SME | Netherlands | www.lifesense-group.com |
| Archipel Zorggroep | End User | Netherlands | www.archipelzorggroep.nl |
- Project name: Wearable and innovative solution to collect urine samples from senior citizens for health
and care purposes (Ucollect) - Website:
- Coordinator: Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences, Austria
- Duration: 9 Months
- Starting Date: 04/2021
- Total budget: € 390 346
- Public contribution: €
Contact
Karin Trommelschläger
E.: Karin.trommelschlaeger@fhv.at
T.: +43 5572 792 7307
Objectives
The ORASTAR project is planned as a short collaborative feasibility study aiming at creating a shared agenda between business and end-user partners for investigating the potential of extending the existing CARIOT BRUSH oral-care product for use in the homecare sector with the added features and services required for this sector.
Expected results and impact
Expected outcome of will be the ORASTAR product which will be ready for market introduction within 1 year following the end of the ORASTAR project, depending on the added features requested by the participating end-users. The ORASTAR product will have an impact on several levels, both on the elderly themselves, on their families and friends, on formal and informal caregivers, on the municipal care services, and dentistry services, as well as on the national level, by reducing the occurrence of preventable diseases and conditions, leading to less hospitalizations and visits to family doctor and the dentist. The ORASTAR project itself and the resulting dissemination activities will increase awareness of the challenges related to oral care, and point to new solutions.
Partners
Partners involved in the project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| MEDICA | SME | Denmark | www.medicaconnect.dk |
| ZITEC | SME | Romania | www.zitec.com |
| USTH | End User | Norway | www.utviklingssenter.no/ |
- Project name: A Feasibility Study on Using Ambient Assisted Living Technology to Support Toothbrushing Adherence in Elderly with Cognitive Impairments in the Home Care Setting (ORASTAR)
- Website:
- Coordinator: Medica Connect ApS
- Duration: 9 months
- Starting Date: 04/2021
- Total budget: € 309,460.00
- Public contribution:
SI-FOOtWORK
The SI-FOOtWORK system will allow for the workers to focus on avoiding or reducing back pain. The uniqueness of the SI-FOOtWORK project lies in the combination of pressure monitoring in insoles, ...
Read moreObjectives of the project
The aim of the project is to develop a personalized Smart Insole system FOr Older WORkers to reduce bacK pain (SI-FOOtWORK). The SI-FOOtWORK system will consist of an insole that, equipped with pressure sensors, can measure lifting workloads of older workers. By integrating state-of-the art low power technology the insole can wirelessly and ubiquitously communicate with an adaptable Artificial Intelligence (AI) lifting engine, that can evaluate lifting amounts and correctness. These immediate notifications will empower the user to avoid and stop problematic lifting situations, thus reducing the risk of developing back pains due to overexertion.
Expected results and outcome
SI-FOOtWORK will improve the quality of life for older persons by enabling them to retain their job function by correcting risk behaviours leading to back-pain, reducing sick days and optimising their general well-being. SI-FOOtWORK will develop and validate a robust, easy-to-use and cost-effective solution targeted older workers assisting them to prevent, mitigate and correct risk behaviours when lifting – leading to keeping workers active and healthy for longer time, thus contributing to the sustainability of social security and healthcare systems. A successful market introduction and exploitation of the SI-FOOtWORK technology will have strong impacts on growth of the European active and assisted living sector, employment and industrial competitiveness, specifically on the consortium SMEs.
Partners
Partners involved in the project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Technical University of Denmark | R&D | Denmark | www.dtu.dk |
| Norwegian University of Science and Technology | R&D | Norway | www.ntnu.no |
| Canary Technology Innovations SRL | SME | Romania | www.canarytech.ro |
| Hoka Tæpper og Gulve | End Users | Denmark | www.hokagulve.dk |
| Ana Aslan International Foundation | End Users | Romania | www.anaaslanacademy.ro |
- Project name: Smart Insole system FOr Older WORkers to reduce bacK pain (SI-FOOtWORK)
- Coordinator: Technical University of Denmark
- Duration: 9 months
- Starting Date: 01.03.2021.
- Total budget: € 258,207
- Public contribution:
mHealthINX
mHealthINX users will be able to measure, assess, and elaborate on the personal stress level in a mobile and unobtrusive way. The system will indicate critical stress levels and suggest personalized ...
Read moreObjectives:
Age-related decline of physical and cognitive abilities produces often stressful situations for older employees. Especially at an older age, occupational stress is a key risk factor for developing mental disorders or cardiovascular diseases. In recent years many Apps have emerged trying to tackle the topic but with the main problem of are lacking clinical evidence. Besides, they miss a holistic approach because they are not co-designed with the target group. In contrast to that, the mHealthINX solution will provide a user-friendly, coherent, and holistic solution for supporting older employees in occupational stress management and mental health provision.
Expected Results and Impact:
The mHealthINX solution will provide a user-friendly, coherent and holistic solution to support older employees in managing their stress level and in promoting their mental health. It will combine advantages of assessment using self-reported and objective bio signal-based measures with advantages of App- and VR-based interventions. The solution will prove its effectiveness in the field. The strong business- and end-user-oriented consortium, having access to various stakeholders, and the low-cost hardware design are promising factors for making the mHealthINX solution very fast attractive to the market.
Partners
Partners involved in the project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH | R&D | Austria | www.ait.ac.at/ |
| Medical University of Vienna | R&D | Austria | www.meduniwien.ac.at |
| mindcoa.ch GmbH | SME | Austria | www.mindcoa.ch/ |
| Creagy AG | SME | Switzerland | www.creagy.ch/ |
| ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences | R&D | Switzerland | www.zhaw.ch |
| tanteLouise | End Users | Netherlands | www.tantelouise.nl/ |
| MedRecord B.V. | SME | Nertherlands | www.medrecord.io/ |
| GameSolutionsLab B.V. | SME | Netherlands | www.gamesolutionslab.com/ |
| terzStiftung | End Users | Switzerland | www.terzstifung.ch |
| Ovos media gmbh | SME | Austria | www.ovos.at |
- Project name: The mental Health eXperience; Indication – iNtervention – eXperience (mHealthINX)
- Website: www.mhealthinx.eu
- Coordinator: AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH
- Duration: 36 months
- Starting date: 03/2020
- Total budget: € 2.900.000
- Public contribution: € 1.800.000
Objectives:
It happens to a lot of older adults: Losing a partner. While most older adults mourn for some time and then continue their lives, another group of older adults cannot process this loss properly and experience prolonged grief. Prolonged grief, on its turn, leads to other health problems, such as loneliness, cardiovascular problems, and depression. The LEAVES project will result in an online service that supports older adults in processing their loss. It will use a combination of online, blended and offline services to help the older adult and to determine the onset of mental problems early on.
Expected Results and Impact:
The impact that the project hopes to achieve on well-being, focuses on, for example, decreasing grief symptoms, and prolonged grief (with a reduction from 25% (average rate) to 17.5%). At the end of the project, we aim to have at least three opportunities for exploitation, whereby a preferred supplier (a large company or organizations focused on psychiatric care) for the service for each country is present in the consortium. It is the goal to have a marketable product ready by the end of the project that will be expanded with personalization features in the years that follow.
Partners
Partners involved in the project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roessingh Research and Development | SME | Netherlands | www.rrd.nl |
| National Foundation for the Elderly | End Users | Netherlands | www.ouderenfonds.nl |
| University of Bern | End Users | Switzerland | www.unibe.ch |
| School of Social Work, University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Olten | University | Switzerland | www.fhnw.ch/ |
| Nothing AG | SME | Switzerland | www.nothing.ch |
| NOVA University of Lisbon | University | Portugal | www.unl.pt |
| Psychiatric Department at the Health Unit of Baixo Alentejo | End Users | Portugal | www.ulsba.min-saude.pt/ |
| Sensing Future Technologies | SME | Portugal | www.sensingfuture.com |
| DELA Natura- en levensverzekeringen N.V. | Large Enterprise | Netherlands | www.dela.nl |
- Project name: optimizing the mentaL health and resiliencE of older Adults that haVe lost thEir spouSe via blended, online therapy (LEAVES)
- Website: https://www.leaves-project.eu/
- Coordinator: Roessingh Research and Development
- Duration: 36 months
- Starting date: 02/2020
- Total budget: € 2.500.000
- Public contribution: € 1.500.000
Objectives:
H2HCare aims to support seniors with heart failure in their transition from acute (hospital) to the community (home) care by providing a robot-based coaching system for helping them to follow the recommended post-discharge treatment plan and lifestyle changes. Using the robot the H2HCare system will provide the following functionalities to end-users: (i) virtual coaching and a direct link with doctors for older adults during their convalescence empowering them to self-manage their recovery at home and avoid hospital readmission; (ii) support for increasing their adherence to post-discharge instructions; (iii) assist health professionals through older adults accurate monitoring and follow-up for preventing re-hospitalization.
Expected Results and Impact:
H2HCare will sustain and improve the quality of life of older adults in different dimensions helping them to better cope with and self-manage transitional care problems in case of heart failure avoiding hospital re-admissions. The expected impact is to reduce with 15% of the re-hospitalization rate of older adults’ patients and transitional care process costs due to improved and timely robot-based follow-up, coaching and intervention. H2HCare will follow a market penetration approach targeting to commercialize a robot with an ecosystem of services for transitional care using a monthly subscription, in 12 months after the project ends.
Partners
Partners involved in the project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Technical University of Cluj-Napoca | R&D | Romania | www.utcluj.ro/en/ |
| Tellu IoT AS | SME | Norway | www.tellucloud.com/ |
| University Hospital of Geneva | End User | Switzerland | www.hug-ge.ch |
| ConnectedCare Services B.V. | SME | Netherlands | www.connectedcare.nl |
| Seniornett | End Users | Norway | www.seniornett.no/ |
| No Isolation | SME | Norway | www.noisolation.com |
- Project name: Social robot-based solution for elders’ Care management and coaching after discharge from Hospital to Home – H2HCare
- Website: https://h2hcare-aal.eu/
- Coordinator: Technical University of Cluj-Napoca
- Duration: 36 months
- Starting date: 04/2020
- Total budget: € 1.600.000
- Public contribution: € 1.000.000
Contact:
Dr. Tudor Cioara
E.: tudor.cioara@cs.utcluj.ro
T.: +40740062380
Objectives:
Often frailty in elderly is strengthened by too low levels of activity. Physical exercise has been proven to be a good intervention to increase self-reliance and independence. It also enhances the quality of life and can cut costs of care. However, not all elderly are in touch with professionals who are trained to assess the physical capacity and set up a training program. This project empowers (home) care workers and citizens to take up this role, by offering them an app, with the exercises.
Expected results and impact:
The project will result in an app for self-training which might be almost ready for approaching the market (TRL 6-7). For the other countries the result is a report on market analysis and business strategy and possible partnership for market access of the assisted-training app. This will be suitable for all elderly in these countries and can have a high impact on their wellbeing. In order to reach this, this project facilitates the pilots and research needed.
Partners
Partners involved in a project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| DigiRehab | SME | Denmark | www.digirehab.dk/us/ |
| Zorggroep.H.Hart | End User | Belgium | http://www.h-hart.be/ |
| AlpScapes | SME | Austria | www.alpscapes.com/ |
| Favrskov Kommune | End Users | Denmark | www.favrskov.dk/ |
- Project name: Digital training for improved Elderlies self-reliance and quality of LIFE (e-LIFE)
- Website: www.digirehab.dk/elife
- Coordinator: DigiRehab A/S
- Duration: 9 months
- Starting date: 03/2020
- Total budget: € 458.682
- Public contribution: € 196.452
Contact:
Niels Heuer
E.: niels@digirehab.dk
T.: +45 22 72 72 20
Objectives:
Dehydration of elderly is a significant problem. AquaTime is a new IoT-enabled solution to monitor and motivate elderly people and provide an overview for caretakers of the hydration status of elderly citizens. The solution is aimed at the public healthcare sector.
The objective of this project is to define, develop and test a specific version of AquaTime that fulfills most wishes and requirements of the eldercare sector in Extremadura, Spain. The developed solution will be able to add value for all types of stakeholders such as end users, formal and informal caretakers and public sector decision makers.
Expected results and impact:
This project wants to make and test a solution that fits the needs of different stakeholders in the care sector in Extremadura, Spain, taking the language, care sector, culture and climate into account. It is estimated that AquaTime can be used to reduce the risk of dehydration. It will also lead to an understanding of the potential for process improvement (e.g. a more uniform level of care with respect to dehydration), improved quality of life and cost savings. After the project has finished (and approvals, e.g. CE marking, have been obtained), AquaTime can be deployed in the market.
Partners
Partners involved in the project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heveas | SME | Denmark | www.heveas.com |
| Medbroker | SME | Denmark | www.medbroker.com |
| Designit Oslo | SME | Norway | www.designit.com |
| FundeSalud | End Users | Spain | www.fundesalud.es |
- Project name: AQUATIME – The Smart Hydration Assistant
- Website: To be launched
- Coordinator: Heveas
- Duration: 9 months
- Starting date: 01/01/2020
- Total budget: € 270.000
- Public contribution: € 170.000
Contact:
Soren Jensen
E.: ssj@heveas.com
T.: +45 36699 1354
CARU cares
In order to evaluate the acceptance and effectiveness of the solution, a main focus throughout the project are field tests of the CARU device and its functionalities. Today, CARU is on the market and ...
Read moreObjectives
Technology should make people’s lives simpler. CARU is a device that facilitates communication between elderly people, relatives and caregivers. It also provides relevant information about behaviour changes or similar to caregivers. Interaction with the device is carried out by voice commands, which is the most natural way of interaction for us humans. In the project, we will evaluate the acceptance of and the effectiveness for all stakeholders. Also, we will implement and test a completely new feature: Care documentation by voice, which could reduce time pressure and improve care quality.
Expected results and impact
As CARU is already commercially available, the project aims to optimize the impact of the solution to end-users. This includes the safety of elderly as well as their feeling of social inclusion and autonomy. We expect this to increase significantly by the use of CARU. For caregivers we strive to improve the attractiveness of the profession by decreasing time pressure and making processes more efficient. The new features of documentation by voice and announcement of the arrival time have a great potential for that (by saving time) and we aim to proof this during the project.
Partners
Partners involved in the project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| CARU AG | SME | Switzerland | www.caruhome.com |
| Bonacasa | SME | Switzerland | www.bonacasa.ch |
| Hochschule Luzern Tand A, iHomeLab | R&D | Switzerland | www.ihomelab.ch |
| Johanniter gGmbH | User | Austria | www.johanniter.at |
| Fachhoschule Wiener Grafik Design Werkstats | R&D | Austria | www.fhwn.ac.at |
| Schneeweis Wittmann Grafik Design Werkstat | SME | Austria | http://www.schneeweiswittmann.at/ |
| Senior Living Group | LARGE INDUSTRY | Belgium | www.srliving.be |
| Vienna University of Economics and Business | R&D | Austria | www.wu.ac.at |
- Project name: CARU cares
- Website: www.carucares.com
- Coordinator: Hochschule Luzern Tand A, iHomeLab
- Duration: 36 months
- Starting date: 06/2019
- Total budget: € 2.400.000
- Public contribution: € 1.200.000