Objectives
Setting up an online platform, based on e-services, of thematic travels for the elderly persons. This platform will allow:
- Elderly people to select the best travel itinerary based on their needs and capabilities ;
- Tour operator to propose relevant thematic travel for elderly people and optimized services.
Then during the travel, the STIMULATE platform (through the mobile device) will offer aid and assistance to elderly people to facilitate and make better their travel.
Expected results and impact
IT solution that will be validated and market tested with the primary user segment (elderly), and to have validated a proposed business model with a detailed exploitation plan by the close of the project term. This exploitation plan will have identified the value chain, developed a preliminary business and marketing plan, and created a network of key potential future business partners (content providers, tour operators, etc.) to launch the STIMULATE service within one year of the project’s completion.
Partners
Partners involved in the STIMULATE project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Centre de Recherche Public Henri Tudor | R&D | Luxembourg | www.tudor.lu |
| Cybercultus | SME | Luxembourg | www.cybercultus.lu |
| Technische Universitat Wien | R&D | Austria | www.tuwien.ac.at |
| Utrecht School of the Arts | R&D | Netherlands | www.hku.nl |
| Au fil des Cévennes | End User | France | |
| E-Seniors | End User | France | www.eseniors.eu |
| Europäische Arbeitsgemeinschaft Osterreich - EURAG | End User | Austria | www.eurag.at |
| Dessine-moi mon répit – DMMR Tourisme | End User | France | www.alloj.fr |
- Project name: Sustainable E² Mobility services for elderly persons – STIMULATE
- Website: www.stimulate-aal.eu
- Coordinator: Public Research Centre Henri Tudor, Luxembourg
- Duration: 24 Months
- Starting Date: 01.09.2011
- Total budget: € 1.748.019
- Public contribution: € 1.290.000
Contact
Dr. Djamel KHADRAOUI
E.: djamel.khadraoui@tudor.lu
T.: +352 661 42 59 14
Objectives
The goal is to develop an attractive, intelligent, demand oriented and age-independent personal protection and caring system (2PCS device and infrastructure) without stigmatisation, restriction of freedom and permanent monitoring. The aim of the project is to improve the mobility, the information accessibility and the subjective as well as objective safety of elderly people. Another goal of the 2PCS system is to reduce the emotional and psychological burden for care persons as well as for family members and to improve mobility, safety and freedom along all relevant life-phases.
Expected results and impact
By empowering primary end-users 2PCS helps to overcome subjective insecurity, individual fears, disorientation, lack of relevant local based information and lack of communication abilities. 2PCS is adaptable to each person´s individual life-phase and provides three basic solutions:
- A business edition (for stationary care / assisted living / rehab.);
- A home edition (for ambulatory care / home care);
- A private edition (for leisure, travel and sports). The consortium has developed KPIs for the addressed solutions to focus on and monitor the qualitative, quantitative and economic criteria set.
Partners
Partners involved in the 2PCS project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tertianum Stiftung | R&D | Switzerland | www.stiftung.tertianum.ch |
| European Academy of Bozen/ Bolzano | R&D | Italy | www.eurac.edu |
| Curena AG | SME | Switzerland | www.curena.ch |
| Humanocare GmbH | SME | Austria | www.humanocare.at |
| Mieloo & Alexander B.V. | SME | Netherlands | www.mielooandalexander.com |
| Odenwälder Kunststoffwerke Gehäusesysteme GmbH | SME | Germany | www.okw.com |
| RF-Embedded GmbH | SME | Germany | www.rf-embedded.eu |
| Privatklinik Villa Melitta – Casa Di Cura | SME | Italy | www.villamelitta.it |
- Project name: Personal Protection and Caring System – 2PCS
- Website: www.2pcs.eu
- Coordinator: University of Innsbruck Department for Strategic Management, Marketing and Tourism, Austria
- Duration: 24 Months
- Starting Date: 01.07.2011
- Total budget: € 1.741.213
- Public contribution: € 1.114.679
Contact
Ao. Univ. Prof. Dr. Kurt Promberger
E.: kurt.promberger@uibk.ac.at
T.: +43-512-507-7600
Mag. Dr. Felix Piazolo
Objectives
The WayFiS project aims at improving the capability of seniors to plan, manage and execute travel and transportation projects at their own discretion by solving the problems elderly people cope with when trying to move in unknown outdoor environments, thus enabling them to take part in the self-serve society. The problems that are approached are mainly related to the access to information, sight problems, walking/motor abilities, cognitive abilities, associated health limitations, scarce availability of proper information (regarding transport adaptations, stations/stops accessibility) etc…
Expected results and impact
The product developed with WayFiS project will be constituted by a mobile interactive end-user application, delivered as a service, for elderly people that has been thought to be used with minimum intrusiveness for them and maximum benefit. First estimations of time to market (that may be modified after receiving users’ feedback) let us plan a needed period of 15 months after the finalisation of the project for the development of the first ready to market service. This final phase will consist in the development of the final product, final test users’ validation, marketing strategies, publication of the service in applications stores, advertising agreements.
Partners
Partners involved in the WayFiS project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| HI-Iberia Ingenieria y Proyectos SL | SME | Spain | www.hi-iberia.es |
| University of Geneva | R&D | Switzerland | www.qol.unige.ch |
| ArxIT SA | SME | Switzerland | www.arxit.com |
| CETIEX | End User | Spain | www.cetiex.es |
| Bay Zoltán Foundation For Applied Research, Institute for Applied Telecommunication Technologies | R&D | Hungary | www.bzlogi.hu |
| Teréz Anya Szociális Integrált Intézmény, Hévíz (HRS ) | End User | Hungary |
- Project name: WayFiS, Way Finding Seniors
- Website: www.wayfis.eu
- Coordinator: HI-IBERIA Ingeniería y Proyectos SL, Madrid, Spain
- Duration: 30 Months
- Starting Date: 01.03.2011
- Total budget: € 1.497.410
- Public contribution: € 962.526
Objectives
The aim of AmCo is to develop a new, innovative and integrated standard‑AAL-platform to enhance the quality of life and help all and especially elder people coping with every-day life, like bed‑linen‑changing‑, cleaning‑ or party‑services. Therefore smart living services are offered, adjusted to the needs of the individual. Communication should be endowed, advocated and inspirited, i.e. by easily video-conferencing and digital black boards. Furthermore the individual safety is increased, i.e. by automatic cooker-deactivation or in-house emergency calls. So the individual potentials can be brought into action.
Expected results and impact
Developing a new standard AAL-platform is the main purpose of the AmCo Project, therefore the AmCo Platform is the most remarkable result of the project. Another result will be the academic evaluation of the pattern-of-use categorised by demographic respectively geographic parameters, which can be consulted in future AAL projects. Furthermore the evaluation can be used to design service portfolios for new applications. Moreover the utilisation of the AmCo-platform will help elderly people living in their own homely ambience as long as possible with as little inpatient health care as possible.
Parners
Partners involved in the AmCo project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deutsches Rotes Kreuz | End User | Germany | www.drk-bitburg-pruem.de |
| FACO Immobilien GmbH | End User | Germany | www.faco.de |
| Fraunhofer-Institut für Software und Systemtechnik ISST | R&D | Germany | www.isst.fraunhofer.de |
| BEKO Engineering & Informatik AG Competence Center Smart Home Solutions | Large Industry | Austria | www.smarthome.ag |
| Wincasa AG Immobilien-Dienstleistungen | Large Industry | Switzerland | www.wincasa.ch |
| Competence Center Independent Living University of St. Gallen | R&D | Switzerland | il.iwi.unisg.ch |
- Project name: Ambient Concierge, AmCo
- Website: www.ambient-concierge.eu
- Coordinator: German Red Cross
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.11.2011
- Total budget: € 2.620.726,85
- Public contribution: € 1.427.109,00
Objectives
Care@Home is about enabling empowerment, wellness and social care services to the home of the elderly through interactive multimedia SmartTV. The idea is to enclose the social support system for the elderly and carry this as a personalised communication and service channel in their home. Whereby the technology provide a two-way communication for family, friends and care givers as well as entertainment and services for household, shopping and community information.
Expected results and impact
The progress beyond to the state-of-the-art of Care@Home project is that relevant technology regarding sensors, wireless networks, communication and multimedia is to be integrated in community driven products and services for the elderly, which are highly personalised and easy-to-use. Because of the easy accessible ‘design platform’ of Philips SmartTV, development new applications and services are in reach of many organisations and companies.
Partners
Partners involved in the Care@Home project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delft University of Technology | R&D | Netherlands | www.tudelft.nl |
| Philips Consumer Lifestyle | Large Industry | Netherlands | www.philips.com |
| Singular Logic Romania / INTRAROM | Large Industry | Romania | www.singularlogic.eu |
| Healthcare over Internet Protocol Community Interest Company | SME | United Kingdom | www.hoip.eu |
| The Building Research Establishment | R&D | United Kingdom | www.bre.co.uk |
| Mextal BV | SME | Netherlands | www.mextal.com |
| National Elderly Foundation | End User | Netherlands | www.ouderenfonds.nl |
| Living Lab Foundation | End User | Netherlands | www.livinglab.nl |
| Actimage | SME | Luxembourg | www.actimage.com |
| Bournemouth Borough Council | End User | United Kingdom | www.bournemouth.gov.uk |
- Project name: CARE services advancing the social interaction, health wellness and well-being of elderly people AT HOME Care@Home
- Website: www.careathome-project.eu
- Coordinator: Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 21.11.2011
- Total budget: € 3.907.881,34
- Public contribution: € 2.033.585,95
BANK4ELDER
Bank4Elder project will develop and validate new interfaces for existing ways of banking. Each mode and technology will be: Web: Building new web pages will allow end users to choose between normal ...
Read moreObjectives
Bank4Elders is a project thought to help elder people using new banking modes: web, automated teller machine (ATM), TV and mobile phone just defining a new framework. Target users will be active European people aged over 50. As elderly people cannot enjoy these services with usually complex interfaces, we will develop new smart interfaces able to be customised and adapted to each user satisfying functional, accessibility, usability and aesthetic needs previously detected in different work groups with this elderly people.
Expected results and impact
We expect to exploit these interfaces/services in four countries: Spain, Portugal, Italy and Germany; moreover, as it is said, the interfaces will be easily adaptable to other banks so they could be sold to any European bank. Thus, we have a potential market of 3900 banks and 76.5M elderly potential users. Brief estimated sales summary: 1st year – 6 banks and 76530 users; 2nd year – 12 banks and 229590 users; 3rd year – 24 banks and 382650 users; 4th year – 36 banks and 765300 users. However, due to the characteristics of banking sector, a more accurate estimation will be done next years.
Partners
Partners involved in the Bank4Elders project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| VECTOR SF | Large Industry | SPAIN | www.vectorsf.com |
| INSTITUTO DE BIOMECANICA DE VALENCIA | R&D | SPAIN | www.ibv.org |
| NUROMEDIA | SME | GERMANY | www.nuromedia.com |
| NEW AMUSER | SME | ITALY | www.newamuser.it |
| DIGINTEL | SME | ITALY | www.digintel.it |
| FEDERACION PROVINCIAL DE UDP DE VALENCIA | End User | SPAIN | www.valenciaudp.org |
| ASSOCIAÇAO REDE DE UNIVERSIDADES DA TERCEIRA IDADE | R&D | PORTUGAL | www.rutis.com |
- Project name: Innovate Ways of Banking Designed for and by the Elderly / BANK4ELDER
- Website: www.bank4elder.eu
- Coordinator: Vector SF, Spain
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.10.2011
- Total budget: 1,723,108 €
- Public contribution: 974,644 €
Contact
Jaime González Martín
E.: jagonzalez@vectorsf.com
T.: +34 911 830 654
Objectives
ELDERHOP wants to provide a complex easy-to use solution to improve the quality of life of elderly people. The objective is to develop, test, and make available a suite of open-source mobile and TV applications, which supports people above 65 in their important daily activities like shopping, using public transport, etc. The envisioned end product will facilitate the outdoors activity and navigation capabilities of the elderly, while decreasing their anxiety and stress levels. Our goal is to launch the service at the end of 2013, and reach 2% of the target population within 24 months after finishing the project.
Expected results and impact
The project intends to develop a complete end-to end solution to help elderly people in their daily activities outside of their homes. The solution will be available from app stores, and it will increase the sense of security, comfort, and self-esteem of elderly people through providing them easy-to use technologies. Further expected benefits include the increased digital inclusion of the elderly through user-friendly interfaces adapted to their needs, and the assistance provided to the elderly in the search for special deals and discounts (helping them to save money).
Partners
Partners involved in the ELDERHOP project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mobility and Multimedia Coordination Office Nonprofit Ltd. | SME | Hungary | www.mmklaszter.com |
| KIBU Innovation Nonprofit Ltd. | SME | Hungary | www.kitchenbudapest.hu |
| HomeSys Media Ltd. | SME | Hungary | hybridbox.tv |
| Center for Usability Research and Engineering | R&D | Austria | www.cure.at |
| COOSS Marche | End User | Italy | www.cooss.marche.it |
| Create-mediadesign GmbH | SME | Austria | www.create.at |
| Intergrasys SA | SME | Spain | www.integrasys-sa.com |
- Project name: Solution Assisting the Shop Hopping of Elderly – ELDERHOP
- Website: www.elderhop.com
- Coordinator: Mobility and Multimedia Coordination Office Nonprofit Ltd.
- Duration: 24 Months
- Starting Date: 01.09.2011
- Total budget: € 1.777.488
- Public contribution: € 1.029.910,12
Objectives
ENTRANCE is a multidisciplinary project with 8 partners from 4 European countries. The consortium consists of 2 research institutions, 2 user organisations and 4 SMEs. ENTRANCE will develop an innovative platform for trip planning, indoor and outdoor navigation and Internet service use. The platform will comprise a home terminal with a serious game and a multi-sensory mobile interface for navigation and way finding. The home and mobile technology will be usable and accessible. It will also help older adults maintain and develop their cognitive abilities. The technology will be tested in France and Austria.
Expected results and impact
The ENTRANCE platform will give more independence to older adults when using e-booking services and when navigating outdoors and indoors. It will not only be useful, usable and accessible, but will also help its users maintain and develop their cognitive abilities. The ENTRANCE platform will be tested with about 90 users aged 50 or more, at two test locations in Austria and France. The tests will be done iteratively, both in laboratory and in the field. The project will have a duration of 3 years, for an effort of 525 PM. The ENTRANCE platform could be brought to the market at the end of 2015.
Partners
Partners involved in the ENTRANCE project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Commisariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives | R&D | France | www-list.cea.fr |
| Paris Lodron University of Salzburg | R&D | Austria | www.icts.sbg.ac.at |
| Autonom’Lab | End User | France | www.autonom-lab.com |
| 50Plus GmbH | End User | Austria | www.50plusgmbh.com |
| Geomobile GmbH | SME | Germany | www.geomobile.de |
| GFTH Ltd. | SME | Hungary | www.gfthu.com |
| Idées-3com | SME | France | www.idees-3com.com |
| Splitted-Desktop Systems | SME | France | www.splitted-desktop.com |
- Project name: Enabling Elderly People travel and Internet Access – ENTRANCE
- Website: www.entrance.fr
- Coordinator: CEA LIST, France
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.09.2011
- Total budget: € 4.385.128
- Public contribution: € 2.096.042
Objectives
FEARLESS is a project designed to detect a wide range of risks with a single sensor unit, enhancing mobility and enabling elderly to take active part in the self-serve society by reducing their fears. Another main focus of this project is the lack of expertise at the supplier side and thus the integration of important parts of the supply chain (i.e. network of electricians and electric shops).
It will utilise the flexibility of vision based sensors and combine it with acoustic event detection. This combination will significantly enhance the reliability of the overall system. The potential dangers, which can be detected with FEARLESS include smoke/fire, flooding, falls or sudden changes in daily life caused by a deterioration of the health condition. The overall aim of this project is the reduction of barriers (i.e. fears and concerns), which impedes the mobility of elderly people, often suffering from dementia or light loss of cognitive activities.
Expected results and impact
The social alarm technology is increasingly deployed to provide non-institutionalised care and to promote an independent lifestyle for the elderly population. The actual low penetration of the technology is expected to offer growth opportunities to information and communications infrastructure providers, social alarm equipment suppliers as well as community service providers.
The following technologies are proposed in the actual market:
- First-generation Alarms: These devices consist of a simple telephone unit and a pendant with a button that can be triggered when help is required by the user. The monitoring centre systems receive the call, which displays the caller’s identity and location, thereby enabling care staff to provide immediate response based on the level of urgency.
- Second-generation Alarms: This segment, otherwise known as telecare refers to the use of sensors such as smoke, fire and flood detectors, among others, which enable the care staff to respond to a crisis by providing immediate response in case of emergencies.
- Third-generation Alarms: This refers to a more advanced type of telecare service, which collects activity data automatically through various sensors on a continuous basis through the detection of various movements.
At present, the most mature market in the field of ICTs and ageing concerns social alarms (first generation). FEARLESS is an enrichment of the current home care services covering the third generation alarms market.
Partners
Partners involved in the FEARLESS project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| CogVis GmbH | R&D | Austria | www.cogvis.at |
| Vienna University of Technology | R&D | Austria | caa.tuwien.ac.at |
| University of Bamberg | End User | Germany | www.uni-bamberg.de |
| TeSAN | End User | Italy | www.tesan.it |
| i2CAT Technological Center | End User / R&D | Spain | www.i2cat.net |
| InfoKom GmbH | End User / SME | Germany | www.infokom.de |
| Linkcare Health Services | R&D | Spain | www.ipk.fraunhofer.de |
| Fraunhofer IPK | R&D | Germany | |
| Samariterbund Wien | End User | Austria | www.samariterbund.net |
| Medical University of Vienna | R&D | Austria | www.meduniwien.ac.at |
- Project name: Fear Elimination As Resolution for Loosing Elderly’s Substantial Sorrows FEARLESS
- Website: www.cogvis.at
- Coordinator: CogVis GmbH, Pulverturmgasse 3, A-1090 Vienna, Austria
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.07.2011
- Total budget: € 2.680.777
- Public contribution: –
Contact
DI Michael Brandstötter, MSc
E.: brandstoetter@cogvis.at
T.: +43 1 997 1594 0
Objectives
FoSIBLE aims at the well-being and self-esteem of older people by supporting an active life-style to prevent loneliness. FoSIBLE aims at providing bridging spaces to foster social interactions and experiences by acknowledging the diversity of preferences, needs and interests. Fosible will develop a Social TV community platform with game technologies and smart furniture and will provide adapted input devices including gesture recognition fostering social support between peers through virtual communities and entertainment applications.
Expected results and impact
FoSIBLE is targeted around providing a TV-based Social Media Centre with services for :
- Staying in touch with relatives and friends, as well as contacting peer groups
- Participating in games and physical activity
- Sharing interests (cooking, poetry, etc.)
The project intends to provide new ways to control social technology applications, e.g. via tablet control, gestures, or smart furniture. An open platform will allow for additional integration and dissemination to end-users.
Partners
Partners involved in the FoSIBLE project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Duisburg-Essen | R&D | Germany | www.uni-siegen.de |
| University of Siegen | R&D | Germany | www.uni-siegen.de |
| Fraunhofer Institute IMS | R&D | Germany | www.ims.fhg.de |
| University of Technology of Troyes | R&D | France | www.utt.fr |
| CURE – Center of Usability Research and Engineering | R&D | Austria | www.cure.at |
| AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH | R&D | Austria | www.ait.ac.at |
| Mauser Einrichtungssysteme GmbH & Co. KG | Large Industry | Germany | www.mauser-moebel.de |
| Kaasa Solution GmbH | SME | Germany | www.kaasa.com |
| Malakoff-Médéric Centre Les Arcades | End User | France | www.reseau.malakoffmederic.com |
- Project name: Fostering Social Interactions for a Better Life of the Elderly
- Website:
- Coordinator: University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
- Duration: 30 Months
- Starting Date: 01.05.2010
- Total budget: 2.879.451 €
- Public contribution: 1.871.030 €
Contact
Prof. Dr.-Ing Jürgen Ziegler & Steffen Budweg
T.: +49 203 379 – 2270