i-evAALution
The used technology of the bundle includes communication tools like voice recognition, tablet, a security system, a network-based solution to seek and receive neighborhood help, as well as a smart ...
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The overall objective of i-evAALution is to combine assistive technologies with modern consumer and communication products in order to support elderly persons in daily life. Therefore the technology bundle will be integrated and tested inside of 405 households divided among the participating countries (AT, NL, IT, SL). To support the everyday life of the persons, functionalities of the solutions are combined with each other. Test persons will receive support in many meaningful areas of daily life (comfort, security, social interaction, mobility).
Expected results and impact
- Design of a holistic ICT-based AAL bundle with positive business cases for potential payers and market players
- Tackle the interoperability and integration between single AAL solutions
- Integrate the preselected AAL solutions with widespread and fast-growing standard ICT-solutions as well as arising artificial intelligence based products and services for the consumer market
- Realize a long-term study to overcome the lack of statistical evidence
- New insights in needs of elderly persons in connection with technology and their surroundings
- Evidence on the socio-economic viability should provide arguments for policy-makers and public financers so that in the long-run lead all end-users have an easier access to AAL technologies.
Partners
Partners involved in the i-evAALution project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Innsbruck | R&D | Austria | www.uibk.ac.at |
| Eurac Research | R&D | Italy | www.eurac.edu |
| University of Ljubljana | R&D | Slovenia | www.uni-lj.si |
| Vilans - Centre of expertise for long-term care | End User | The Netherlands | www.vilans.nl |
| FAWO GmbH | SME | Austria | www.fawo.at |
| Johanniter Österreich | End User | Austria | www.johanniter.at |
| S.O.S. ONLUS Cooperativa Operatori Socio Canitari | End User | Italy | www.sosonlus.org |
| Eurotronik Kranj d.o.o. | SME | Slovenia | www.eurotronik.si |
| 2PCS Solutions GmbH | SME | Austria | www.2pcs-solutions.com |
| Mieelo & Alexander B.V. | SME | The Netherlands | www.mielooandalexander.com |
- Project name: i-evAALution – integrating and evaluating AAL solutions
- Website: http://www.i-evaalution.eu/
- Coordinator: University of Innsbruck, Department for Strategic Management, Marketing and Tourism
- Duration: 30 months
- Starting date: 01.04.2018
- Total budget: 3,04 mi €
- Public contribution: 1,9 mi €
Objectives
With help of Ella4Life, elderly people – healthy or with a chronic disease or mental condition – stay healthier and live a more pleasant life, independent and safe. At home on a tablet and ‘on the road’ on a smartphone or -watch. Ella will support and encourage people to adapt a healthy lifestyle. Users will be more self-supporting and independent of professional healthcare, what will result in cost reduction and effectiveness. Ella will improve the quality of life of users, the productivity of healthcare professionals and relieve informal caregivers by making it possible to monitor their loved ones from a distance.
Expected results and impact
We are convinced that Ella4Life will improve the quality of life of end-users as well as informal caregivers. When people get older, their chronic conditions often worsen, and at the same time, they get more problems handling the devices helping them manage their condition. This integration of systems makes it possible for end-users to keep on using their trusted equipment even when physical and cognitive limitations would otherwise make that very hard.
Besides the Improvement of the quality of life for end-users, Ella4Life also improves the quality of life for the informal caregivers. End-users can keep on using the trusted equipment and informal caregivers are reassured because they can follow everything from a distance and retain their normal life.
Partners
Partners involved in the Ella4Life project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virtual Assistant (Virtask) | SME | The Netherlands | www.virtask.nl |
| Medicine Men | SME | The Netherlands | www.medicinemen.eu |
| IHomeLab | R&D | Switzerland | www.ihomelab.ch |
| Insurance Company Zilveren Kruis | Large Industry | The Netherlands | www.zilverenkruis.nl |
| Livelife | End User | The Netherlands | www.livelife.nl |
| Gdansk University of Technology | R&D | Poland | www.pg.edu.pl |
| Ana Aslan International Foundation | End User | Romania | www.ana-aslan.ro |
| Vicino Luzern | End User | Switzerland | www.vicino-luzern.ch |
| Muflon Sp. Z.o.o. | End User | Poland | www.orw-muflon.com.pl |
- Project name: Ella4Life, your virtual personal assistant for home and on the road
- Website: www.ella4life.eu
- Coordinator: Virtual Assistant bv
- Duration: 36 months
- Starting date: 01.06.2018
- Total budget: 1,949386 mi €
- Public contribution: 1,265876 mi €
Living well
The project aim is to adapt and develop an existing ICT virtual assistant currently used by independent and autonomous older adults so that it (Anne) can benefit people with cognitive and other ...
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Dementia and Alzheimer’s means high health expenditures, and as a result, the current government policy focuses on helping older and affected people to live at home as long as possible. However, good and affordable support for those affected requires a complementary alternative to the current healthcare system. In this project, a personal virtual assistant (PVA) Anne is being developed to assist people with early and advanced dementia in everyday life by activating reminder (appointments, medication, nutrition), employment (games, music, news, etc.) and service functions (video call, home automation).
Expected results and impact
Anne will fundamentally improve the quality of life for everyone involved: with Anne, those affected stay longer independent and can stay longer at home. For caregivers Anne could become an assistant and a direct link between the professional caregivers, the patients and their informal caregivers and provide information on the state of the patient thus making for more efficient and effective care. A prototype has been tested with the elderly and showed that support with personal calendar management was highly valued. We expect Anne to reach domestic market in the middle of 2020.
Partners
Partners involved in the Living Well project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virtual Assistant BV (Virtask) | SME | The Netherlands | www.anne4care.nl |
| Windesheim University of Applied Sciences | R&D | The Netherlands | www.windesheim.com |
| De Parabool | End User | The Netherlands | www.deparabool.nl |
| National Instute of Health and Science on Aging | End User | Italy | www.inrca.it |
| iHomeLab, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences | R&D | Switzerland | www.hslu.ch |
| Switzerland Innovation Park Biel/Bienne AG | SME | Switzerland | www.sipbb.ch |
| Stëftung Hëllef Doheem | End User | Luxembourg | www.shd.lu |
- Project name: Living well with Anne
- Website: http://livingwellwithanne.eu/
- Coordinator: Virtual Assistant BV
- Duration: 36 months
- Starting date: 01.07.2017
- Total budget: 2,5 mi €
- Public contribution: 1,6 mi €
Objectives
Providing a user-sensitive ICT-based home environment that supports a personalised and person-centric care process by detecting, communicating, and meaningfully responding to relevant states, situations, and activities of the elderly person with regard to mild cognitive impairment. Central to the proposed idea is the combination and integration of home-based ICT and social networks, connecting the elderly person living at home with their families, friends and carers, on various levels. The project will provide the technological means to exploit the power of social networks and the beneficial effect of social inclusion and activities on cognitive and mental processes.
Expected results and impact
Different technologies and devices will be integrated to provide solutions targeting the needs of the individual elderly person:
- Innovative technologies for the unobtrusive detection of user states and activities;
- A social networking technology platform specifically designed to meet the needs of, and be usable by, the elderly person;
- Ambient devices for the display of information and events and for easy interaction with the home-based system and connected others.
Partners
Partners involved in the Agnes project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Umeå University, Dept. of Informatics | R&D | Sweden | www.umu.se |
| Athens Information Technology | R&D | Greece | www.ait.gr |
| Can Controls | SME | Germany | www.cancontrols.com |
| Graz University of Technology | R&D | Austria | www.portal.tugraz.at |
| Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia | End user / R&D | Spain | www.uned.es |
| Kendro Merimnas Oikoyennias kai Pediou | End user | Greece | www.kmop.gr |
| ONDA Communication S.p.A | Large Industry | Italy | www.ondacommunication.com |
| Fundacion Instituto Gerontologico Matia | End user | Spain | www.ingema.es |
| Skellefteå Kommun | End user | Sweden | www.skelleftea.se |
- Project name: User-sensitive Home-based Systems for Successful Ageing in a Networked Society
- Website: http://agnes-aal.eu
- Coordinator: John Waterworth, Department of Informatics Umeå University (Sweden)
- Duration: 36 months
- Starting Date: 01.09.2009
- Total budget: € 3.635.370
- Public contribution: € 2.045.816
Trans Safe
Trans.Safe resorts to environmental monitoring, physiological monitoring and movement monitoring. The physiological data gathering system delivers heterogeneous sensor data both in the time domain ...
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In Trans.Safe, a system will be developed to support senior workers who can and wish to stay actively longer in a job position with a high personal and public safety risks. The focus is especially on physically and psychologically demanding working places in the transportation sector with high physiological stress potential (truck drivers, train drivers, control room personnel etc.). Trans.Safe will support companies in finding ways to keep their experienced personnel motivated, fit and on duty while at the same time guarantee their personal and the public, safety on the background of the demographic change.
Expected results and impact
Trans.Safe will provide a solution to reliably measure work-load, inform the employees and actively provide countermeasures. This system will be specially tailored for senior employees in the transportation sector and in domains with similar safety and risk environments. The solution creates a new kind of product which brings new service opportunities for the business partners of the consortium, employees (e.g. improved perceived health), employers (e.g. better staff management) and society (higher public safety, economies for the social security systems, macro-economic benefits).
Partners
Partners involved in the Trans.Safe project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts – Engineering & Architecture, CEESAR-iHomeLab | R&D | Switzerland | www.hslu.ch |
| Youse GmbH | SME | Germany | www.youse.de |
| Telecom Italia S.p.A. | Large Industry | Italy | www.telecomitalia.com/tit/en.html |
| VAG Verkehrs-AG Nürnberg | End User | Germany | www.vag.de |
| MAN Truck & Bus AG | Large Industry | Germany | www.mantruckandbus.com |
| Scuola Superiore Sant' Anna | R&D | Italy | sssa.bioroboticsinstitute.it |
| konplan systemhaus ag | SME | Switzerland | www.konplan.com |
| Design LED Products Ltd | SME | United Kingdom | www.designledproducts.com |
- Project name: AmbienT Response to Avoid Negative Stress and enhance SAFEty: Trans.Safe
- Website: www.TransSafe.eu
- Coordinator: Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts – Engineering & Architecture, CEESAR-iHomeLab
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.07.2014
- Total budget: € 3.550.378
- Public contribution: € 1.981.680
Senior Ludens
The SeniorLudens project will provide organisations with the first Serious Game development platform for the fast, easy and cheap creation of serious professional training games, which are suitable ...
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The main goal of the project is the implementation of the first professional 3D serious games development and training platform in the market. The platform will provide a collaborative hub for development, deployment, use, and evaluation of serious games, allowing the users to share their experiences with the SeniorLudens community. The games will immerse the user in a three-dimensional representation of a workplace, guiding the user through the steps needed to accomplish complex tasks and by that means acquiring new skills.
Expected results and impact
The SeniorLudens platform will improve the quality of life for the end-users: (i) developing means for learning and training of older workers; (ii) assisting employees or customers of advanced age to continue a meaningful career and participatory life; (iii) increasing independence of older adults to manage their occupational activities; (iv) adapting the way of working to keep seniors motivated and active in work or other meaningful activities; (v) helping older adults to adapt cognitively with their tasks, maintaining their quality of life and work-life balance; (vi) preserving of cognitive capabilities of older adults when performing their useful activities.
Partners
Partners involved in the SeniorLudens project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indra Software Labs | Large Industry | Spain | www.indracompany.com/en |
| YouRehab AG | SME | Switzerland | https://reha-stim.com/ |
| Consorzio di Bioingegneria e Informatica Medica | SME | Italy | www.cbim.it |
| Unie KBO | End User | The Netherlands | www.uniekbo.nl |
| Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi | End User | Italy | www.dongnocchi.it |
- Project name: Senior Ludens
- Website: http://www.seniorludens.eu
- Coordinator: Indra Software Labs
- Duration: 30 Months
- Starting Date: 01.04.2014
- Total budget: € 1.828.243
- Public contribution: € 886.056
Objectives
The Fit4Work project will develop an innovative easy-to-use and unobtrusive system that will support older workers in reducing and managing physical and mental stress resulting from their occupation. The system will provide ambient ways of monitoring physical and mental activities at work. Smart algorithms will provide context-sensitive personalised recommendations for adjusting the workplace and behaviour at work, as well as define mid- and long-term lifestyle plans to meet the demands of the work taking into consideration the worker’s age.
Expected results and impact
Through its unobtrusive and unique integration of advanced software and hardware components, the Fit4Work system will enable persons aged 55 and over to be healthy and maintain good functional capacities for work. In this way the project answers the need to facilitate continuation of professional careers, making ageing workers aware of possibilities of better transition into ‘golden years’ of their work span and prepare enterprises to develop their work environments with age-related issues incorporated into the frame of their business.
Partners
Partners involved in the Fit4Work project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center | R&D | Poland | www.psnc.pl |
| Eugeniusz Piasecki University School of Physical Education in Poznań | R&D | Poland | www.awf.poznan.pl |
| Jožef Stefan Institute | R&D | Slovenia | www.ijs.si |
| UnieKBO | End User | The Netherlands | www.uniekbo.nl |
| SGS Tecnos S.A. | Large Industry | Spain | www.sgs.es |
| SC Teamnet International SA | Large Industry | Romania | www.teamnet.ro |
| Other Side Mirror S.L. | SME | Spain | www.othersidemirror.com |
- Project name: Self-management of physical and mental fitness of older workers
- Website: www.fit4work-aal.eu
- Coordinator: Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.06.2014
- Total budget: € 2.639.826,80
- Public contribution: € 1.910.850,50
Objectives
The objective of PEARL is to create motivating and age-friendly smart workplaces. PEARL wants to support the extension of the working life and the intergenerational exchange between older and younger colleagues. The project will research, develop and deploy a programmable platform enabling the integration and customisation of supportive ICT technologies, such as ergonomic surfaces, tools for cognitive support, intelligent time and task management as well as training on the job. Smart user identification will allow the automatic reconfiguration of workplaces according to specific user needs and preferences.
Expected results and impact
PEARL will provide a first-of-a-kind platform for the programmable and modular configuration of ICT-enabled age-friendly workplaces, which will be an essential element of EU’s strategy towards prolonging working life. Another point for improving quality of life will be the alleviation of cognitive decline and health risks with the help of trainings. By offering flexible smart workplaces and by fostering intergenerational exchange also younger employees will benefit of PEARL solutions. PEARL will offer enterprises the possibility of choosing a deployment configuration that best suits their needs.
Partners
Partners involved in the PEARL project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH | R&D | Austria | www.ait.ac.at |
| Roessingh Research and Development | SME | Netherlands | www.rrd.nl |
| Singular Romania Computer application S.R L. | Large Industry | Romania | www.singularlogic.ro |
| Empirica Gesellschaft für Kommunikations- und Technologieforschung mbH | SME | Germany | www.empirica.com |
| COMARG Communication & Marketing Agency | SME | Switzerland | www.comarg.ch |
| SENSAP Swiss AG | SME | Switzerland | www.sensap.ch |
| Aalborg University | R&D | Denmark | ctif.aau.dk |
| RFID-specialisten | SME | Denmark | www.rfid-specialisten.dk |
- Project name: PEARL – Platform for Ergonomic and motivating, ICT-based Age-friendly woRkpLaces
- Website: www.pearl-project.eu
- Coordinator: AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Austria
- Duration: 30 Months
- Starting Date: 01.05.2014
- Total budget: € 3.095.941
- Public contribution: € 1.971.740
ActGo-Gate
ActGo-Gate is a Python-based web-application linked to open source solutions for alternative currencies and commercial ERP systems, complemented by mobile apps to provide anytime/anyplace access. ...
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The project’s goal is to create an ICT based marketplace supporting entrepreneurship, self-fulfilment and social participation for golden workers and active retirees. The project aims to create a transferable model as gate for different occupation modules. The model builds on local social marketplaces (existing local communities or social network sites) that serve as a basis and starting point for developing three occupational modules: “Serve the community”, “Flexible occupation”, and “Get involved with organisations”, each to start off in one of the three pilot regions.
Expected results and impact
- ActGo-Gate provides a platform for self-determined, flexible participation in different contexts (paid and unpaid), leveraging self-entrepreneurship and social participation of golden workers and active retirees.
- Integrated marketplace with intelligent matching of supply and demand allows situational and individual management of occupation with little time and effort
- Mobile applications (with a focus on easy-to use interaction concepts like NFC) allow flexible, anytime/anyplace and easy to use access to the platform.
Partners
Partners involved in the ActGo-Gate project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of St. Gallen | R&D | Switzerland | www.iwi.unisg.ch |
| Mobanode Ltd. | SME | Ireland | www.mobanode.com |
| Wroclaw University of Economics – Institute of Business Informatics | R&D | Poland | www.ue.wroc.pl/en/ |
| Entwicklungszentrum Gut altwerden GmbH | End User | Germany | www.ez-gaw.de |
| Business Engineering Institute St. Gallen AG | SME | Switzerland | www.bei-sg.ch |
| Alster Service Center GmbH | End User | Germany | www.alsterservicecenter.de |
| Benevol | End User | Switzerland | www.benevol-sg.ch |
- Project name: Active Retiree and Golden Workers Gate (ActGo-Gate)
- Website: www.actgo-gate.eu
- Coordinator: University of St. Gallen, Institute of Information Management
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.10.2014
- Total budget: € 3.030.000
- Public contribution: € 1.610.000
REVOLUTION
The project develops a framework for “real-time volunteering” and three example services: 1. Mobility Service (arranging local rides to a specified place – select the possible drivers in ...
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The program REVOLUTION – REaltime VOLunteering solUTION – aims to give pensioners voluntary occupation. REVOLUTION will break new ground to match supply and demand: It will be an online solution, which instantly indicates what jobs are needed to be done. The participants can submit their needs for services and labour provider their capacity mobile via smartphone – but the software also detects patterns of behaviour and helps to organise voluntary work. Many more details will optimise usability and user experience to facilitate dissemination of this application. This will help keep people staying active more easily and this is crucial for well-being and health. A rolling stone gathers no moss.
Expected results and impact
REVOLUTION will deliver a comprehensive working prototype for mobile applications which will be validated with end-users in Switzerland and England. The systems main results will be: (1) a unified and intuitive user interface that appeals to people who are not familiar with technology, (2) provision of content regarding daily live activities and nutrition, (3) p provision of inspiration management including agendas and reminders and (4) basic information for third partners to display health status for caregivers and friends.
Partners
Partners involved in the REVOLUTION project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| YouPers AG | SME | Switzerland | www.youpers.ch |
| CREAGY AG | SME | Switzerland | www.creagy.ch |
| iHomeLab | R&D | Switzerland | www.iHomeLab.ch |
| terzStiftung | End User | Switzerland | www.terzstiftung.ch |
| u-sentric | SME | Belgium | www.u-sentric.com |
| XIM Ltd. | SME | United Kingdom | www.xim.co.uk |
| ANA ASLAN International Foundation | End User | Romania | www.brainaging.ro |
- Project name: REVOLUTION
- Website: www.youpers.ch
- Coordinator: YouPers AG
- Duration: 24 Months
- Starting Date: 01.06.2014
- Total budget: € 1.976.736
- Public contribution: € 1.019.402