Objectives
The area of personal hygiene and toilet use is an important area in daily life which unfortunately has not yet found much interest in the AAL community. Toilet4me addresses ageing people and persons of all ages with impairments/disabilities and their needs when using a toilet outside home in public or semi-public environments (e.g. in community centres, shopping malls, theatres, hotels etc.). The aim of Toilet4me is to elaborate and verify a detailed concept for a potential future larger RDI project for actually implementing and evaluating the envisaged Toilet4me system.
Expected results and impact
For older persons and persons with impairments/disabilities improved body stability by optimal sitting height, supporting sitting-down and standing-up transition, improved safety and thereby motivation/empowerment to leave home and participate in social and active life. For secondary users reduced workload, and enhanced possibilities of providing for outside activities. For institutions, hotels, other semi-public places offering better service for community, enter important emerging market (accessible tourism).
Toilet4me
Partners involved in the Toilet4me project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| TU Wien (Vienna University of Technology) | R&D | Austria | www.tuwien.ac.at |
| CareCenter Software GmbH | SME | Austria | www.carecenter.at |
| Resto VanHarte | End User | The Netherlands | www.restovanharte.nl |
| Instituto Pedro Nunes | R&D | Portugal | www.ipn.pt |
| BEIA Consult International | SME | Romania | www.beiaro.eu |
| Cáritas Diocesana de Coimbra | End User | Portugal | www.caritascoimbra.pt |
| Sanmedi bv | SME | The Netherlands | www.sanmedi.nl |
| Ihcare, Lda | SME | Portugal | www.ihcare.pt |
- Project name: Toilet4me – Study on personalised toilets supporting active living in (semi-) public environments
- Website: www.toilet4me-project.eu
- Coordinator: TU Wien (Vienna University of Technology)
- Duration: 6 months
- Starting date: 11/2018
- Total budget: € 280.001 (t.b.c.)
- Public contribution: € 198.846 (t.b.c.)
Objectives
An increasing number of adults aged 55 and more can be found driving on European roads. This number increases due to overall ageing of the European population. Although ageing can be associated to physical and cognitive problems, most ageing people still like to drive. Maintaining mobile for a longer period of time has many advantages, such as maintaining independent, with an active life style and social life. The goal of the project is to develop and evaluate (innovative) services to support older adults to drive safe for a longer period of time.
Expected results and impact
On the long term, the following societal impacts are expected:
- To allow ageing car users to maintain mobile for a longer period of time, under safer conditions, by using personalised Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS).
- To provide stakeholders with a measurable basis to identify safe and unsafe behaviour, which can be used for different target groups.
Within the 6-month project duration, we expect:
- To gain insight in ageing car user’s interests in the use of personalised ADAS with the purpose of driver training and monitoring.
- To develop user interface concepts which focus on ageing car users.
- To identify a feasible and realistic business model around services for senior drivers.
- To prepare the introduction of a driver feedback and monitoring system allowing ageing car users to learn and maintain safe driving behaviour, within the limitations of their skill set.
- To identify and potentially validate the benefits of the use of personalised ADAS in an ageing population for end-user organisations.
Partners
Partners involved in the CARA project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| F2S2 | SME | Belgium | www.F2S2.be |
| EURAG Austria | End User | Austria | www.eurag.at |
| JESCO Auto Training School | SME | Belgium | www.jesco.be |
| KBO-PCOB | End User | The Netherlands | www.kbo-pcob.nl |
| Paris Lodron University Salzburg | R&D | Austria | www.uni-salzburg.at |
| SD-Insights | SME | The Netherlands | www.sd-insights.eu/ |
- Project Name: CuARdian Angel
- Website: www.cuardian-angel.eu
- Coordinator: F2S2
- Duration: 6 months
- Starting Date: 03.12.2018
- Total Budget: € 325.000
- Public contribution: € 230.000
Objectives
The SmartHeat project proposes to leverage on modern IoT (Internet of Things) technologies in order to radically change the home heating experience for health, comfort and well-being of elderly people. The IoT allows physical environments to be connected to the Internet by means of smart objects. A smart object can be defined as any physical entity enhanced with sensing/actuating, computation and communication capabilities. The goal will be achieved via the development of a smart, secure and elderly friendly ICT system for heating monitoring and control.
Expected results and impact
Improve self-management of older adults at home and to enhance autonomy.
The system is also able to send alert message to report or to inform secondary users about possible temperature settings which might be dangerous for the older adults. Besides enhance older adults’ autonomy, the system allow informal carers to have their social life outside home but at the same time have constant control of the proper home heating conditions of their older relatives.
Partners
Partners involved in the SmartHeat project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| TEAMNET INTERNATIONAL (Coordinator) | Large Industry | Romania | www.teamnet.ro |
| ModoSmart S.L. | SME | Spain | www.modosmart.com |
| MX-SI S.L. | SME | Spain | www.mx-si.net |
| SensorID s.n.c. | SME | Italy | www.sensorid.it |
| terzStiftung | End User | Switzerland | www.terzstiftung.ch |
| EURAG | End User | Austria | www.eurag-europe.org |
| Glukadvice | SME | The Netherlands | www.glukadvice.com |
| University of Geneva | R&D | Switzerland | www.unige.ch |
- Project name: SmartHeat (Smart, secure and user friendly heating monitoring and control for elderly people) – SmartHeat.AAL.EC
- Website: www.smartheat-aal.eu
- Coordinator: TEAMNET INTERNATIONAL
- Duration: 36 months
- Starting Date: 01.10.2015
- Total budget: € 2.746.870,69
- Public contribution: 45% National + 55% AAL
Contact
Cristina Stanica
E.: Cristina.Stanica@teamnet.ro
T.: +40 723 190 430
Monica Georgescu
E.: Monica.Georgescu@teamnet.ro
Phone: +40 723 766 075
Cristian Cheru
T.: +40 732 714 230
Objectives
Supporting senior Heart Failure patients, their family, relatives and friends, cardiologists and general healthcare professionals accessing innovative ICT solutions that promote an easier, wider and sustainable access to healthcare is the main goal of the SmartBEAT project. SmartBEAT offers an integrated solution to leverage patient self-care through autonomous condition monitoring and real-time feedback to their carers. Using SmartBEAT, it is possible to improve disease outcomes and enhance the quality of life of senior Heart Failure patients.
Expected results and impact
- A full–fledged, mobile and tailored integration of telemonitoring sensors for Heart Failure care that connects both primary and secondary end-users;
- Processing algorithms capable of identifying subtle changes on physiological parameters that may represent HF decompensations, preventing hospitalisation;
- An overall solution where caregivers, and potentially patients, can define their interests related to heart diseases and related drugs or procedures, and semantic processes will give back curated and valuable information from scientific and research papers.
Partners
Partners involved in the SmartBeat project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fraunhofer Portugal AICOS | R&D | Portugal | www.fraunhofer.pt |
| Centro Hospitalar São João | End User | Portugal | portal-chsj.min-saude.pt |
| Verhaert New Products & Services NV | SME | Belgium | www.verhaert.com |
| Remedus | SME | Belgium | www.remedus.be |
| Seniornett Norge | End User | Norway | www.seniornett.no |
| LifeonKey | SME | Israel | www.lifeonkey.com |
| VigiSense S.A. | SME | Switzerland | www.vigisense.com |
| KempenLIFE | End User | The Netherlands | www.kempenlife.nl |
| Stichting Smart Homes | R&D | The Netherlands | www.smart-homes.nl |
| Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto | R&D | Portugal | www.med.up.pt |
- Project name: SmartBEAT: Smart system for the management of Heart Failure in older adults
- Website: www.smartbeatproject.org
- Coordinator: Fraunhofer Portugal AICOS
- Duration: 36 months
- Starting Date: 01.05.2015
- Total budget: € 2.369.558,40
- Public contribution: € 1.415.915,32
Objectives
The main goal of the PersonAAL project is to extend the time older people can live in their home environment, increasing their autonomy and assisting them in carrying out activities of daily living by means of intelligent and intuitive web applications.
The project will provide an authoring environment and a run-time support to facilitate the development of accessible and personalised applications and adapt previously authored care applications to elderly users, their changing abilities, their environment and device features. Moreover this platform will be used to personalise a set of care applications.
Expected results and impact
The achievements of this project will be a platform for adaptation and end user development as well as three applications that are expected to substantially reduce the reliance on healthcare professionals by elderly persons. These applications include self-management features, (A) facilitating the use of these solutions by elderly, and (B) incorporating personalisation technology to enable the exact matching of specific features with the capabilities of the user. Potential external target organisations include assistive technology vendors, care givers organisations and health centres interested in offering improved services.
Partners
Partners involved in the PersonAAL project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Santer Reply SpA | Large Industry | Italy | www.reply.eu |
| Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche | R&D | Italy | www.isti.cnr.it |
| Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa | R&D | Portugal | www.fc.ul.pt |
| Plux Wireless Biosignals SA | SME | Portugal | www.plux.info |
| IBM Norway | Large Industry | Norway | www.ibm.com/no-no/ |
| Sunnaas Rehabilitation Hospital | End User | Norway | www.sunnaas.no |
| Università della Svizzera Italiana | R&D | Switzerland | www.arpage.ch |
| terzStiftung | End User | Switzerland | www.terzstiftung.ch |
- Project name: PersonAAL – Personalized web applications to improve quality of life and remote care for older adults
- Website: www.personaal-project.eu
- Coordinator: Santer Reply S.p.A.
- Duration: 36 months
- Starting Date: 01.10.2015
- Total budget: € 3.100.000,00
- Public contribution: € 1.700.000,00
Objectives
This project aims to provide an answer to societal challenges, by providing an innovative Organisational Life Assistant (OLA), a virtual presence that supports instrumental activities relating to daily living needs of older adults, allowing them to be more independent, self-assured and to have a healthier, safer and organised life. It also facilitates caregivers by supporting them on offering high-quality assistance; OLA will mediate and facilitate interaction (communication and collaboration) between senior citizens and their informal caregivers or other services or professionals, through technological devices such as standard computers, mobile devices (tablets) and home automation modules.
Expected results and impact
OLA will promote the maintenance of older adults in what is the most comfortable environment for them: their home. This will not only benefit elderly citizens, but also their families and the community as a whole, and therefore help foster social values. The improvement of the autonomy levels will also contribute to enhance the older adult’s capabilities and will enable increased confidence, making the elderly more active in today’s society and consequently less inclined to be confined in formal healthcare providers. This will lead to a more inclusive society while helping to counter societal and economic problems that an ageing population will inevitably provoke.
Partners
Partners involved in the OLA project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inovamais, S.A. | SME | Portugal | inovamais.eu |
| ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon | R&D | Portugal | www.iscte-iul.pt |
| Bay Zoltán Nonprofit Ltd. for Applied Research | R&D | Hungary | www.bayzoltan.hu |
| Comfort Keepers - Comfort at Home, Lda. | End User | Portugal | www.comfortkeepers.pt |
| Knowledge Society Association | End User | Poland | gb.pl.ssw.org.pl |
| Liquid Media AB | SME | Sweden | www.liquid.se |
- Project name: OLA – Organisational Life Assistant for future active ageing
- Website: http://project-ola.eu/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/organizationallifeassistant
- Coordinator: Inovamais, S.A.
- Duration: 30 months
- Starting Date: 01.03.2015
- Total budget: € 1.099.977,46
- Public contribution: € 731.342,37
Objectives
Europe faces the problem of not only having an ageing population, but also a decreasing group of formal carers. CareInMovement (CiM) tackles this challenge and innovates the way we think about care of the elderly by using advanced ICT. On the one hand, it aims at increasing the number of carers and building up a sustainable care community by mobilising and empowering volunteers and family carers. And on the other hand, it supports the care recipients’ side to prolong independent living by maintaining the current health status through enhancing everyday life activities by proposing individually tailored motion activities.
Expected results and impact
CiM involves its users in meaningful activities that contribute to improve their personal health conditions. Vitality and physical well-being may be enhanced and ideally CiM positively impacts on people’s mental well-being as well. The extension of care communities by the integration of volunteers relieves family carers. They are able to better manage stress and reduce the negative impact of care activities. Further CiM enables social care organisations to organise care more effectively and efficiently. The roadmap for market launch will be implemented within one year after project end.
Partners
Partners involved in the CiM project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft m.b.H. | R&D | Austria | www.salzburgresearch.at |
| ilogs mobile software GmbH | SME | Austria | www.ilogs.com |
| Eichenberger Szenografie | SME | Switzerland | www.szenografie.com |
| Vienna University of Economics and Business | R&D | Austria | www.wu.ac.at |
| bit media e-solutions GmbH | Large Industry | Austria | www.bitmedia.at |
| Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg | R&D | Austria | www.sportwissenschaft.uni-salzburg.at |
| ALDIA Cooperativa Sociale | End User | Italy | www.aldia.it |
| Hilfswerk Salzburg | End User | Austria | www.hilfswerk.at |
- Project name: Empowering communities to care by combining smart technology and personal help to maintain mobility – CareInMovement (CiM)
- Website: http://www.careinmovement.eu/
- Coordinator: Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft m.b.H.
- Duration: 36 months
- Starting Date: 01.10.2015
- Total budget: € 2.087.000,00
- Public contribution: € 1.180.000,00
Contact
DI (FH) Mag. Cornelia Schneider
E.: cornelia.schneider@salzburgresearch.at
T.: 0662 2288 222
Objectives
ENSAFE aims at supporting more effective prevention and self-care strategies by creating a smarter, more accessible and versatile link among the elderly person, their living environment and the support network around them by creating an elderly-oriented, network-based services aimed at fostering independent life. The service vision is built upon a layer of existing technologies, encompassing mobile communication, environmental sensing and clinical monitoring. Within the project the technologies will be further developed and integrated into a common framework which, in turn, will provide the basis for implementing innovative services.
Expected results and impact
An integrated system composed of a set of networked devices including a smart phone with built-in sensors, wearable sensors and environment sensors. Due to the open and flexible system design new sensors can be added, allowing for a constant enlargement of the range of elderly users with specific needs and conditions. Pilot applications are set in four different pilot countries representing a wide spectrum of development levels, living and service standards. A business model will be developed to describe how the product service will create, deliver and capture the value of the innovation and will consider the market, economic, social, cultural and other contextual factors across Europe.
Partners
Partners involved in the ENSAFE project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Regionaal Zorg Communicatie Centrum | End User | The Netherlands | www.rzcc.nl |
| GOCIETY® | SME | The Netherlands | www.gociety.nl |
| University of Technology Eindhoven | R&D | The Netherlands | www.tue.nl |
| Me.Te.Da. S.r.l. | SME | Italy | www.meteda.it |
| PROGES | Large Industry | Italy | www.proges.it |
| Università degli Studi di Parma | R&D | Italy | www.unipr.it |
| Gaia Systems AB | SME | Sweden | www.gaia.se |
| SICS Swedish ICT AB | R&D | Sweden | www.sics.se |
| North West Coast Academic Health Science Network | End User | Sweden | www.nwcahsn.nhs.uk |
| ICE Creates Ltd | SME | United Kingdom | www.icecreates.com |
- Project name: ENSAFE – Elderly-oriented, Network-based Services Aimed at independent life
- Website: www.ensafe-aal.eu
- Coordinator: RZCC (Regionaal ZorgCommunicatie Centrum)
- Duration: 36 months
- Starting Date: 01.07.2015
- Total budget: € 2.147.100
- Public contribution: € 1.200.234,89
Objectives
The CoME project provides a solution to reduce the number of seniors that demand care services by way of disease prevention and health self-management. Through miniaturised always-on sensors, seniors will be allowed to self-report themselves whenever appropriate in a non-intrusive way and send this information to professional caregivers to predict long-term state thanks to the analysis of these activity patterns.
It also eases the work of informal caregivers providing them with care tutorials and a match-making tool that facilitates care distribution between them and other caregivers.
Expected results and impact
- Reducing the number of seniors that will demand for care through disease prevention and health self-management
- Easing the access to care services by seniors to obtain a high-quality care at home and in the community
- Extracting interesting conclusions from the analysis of users’ activity patterns
- Improving informal caregivers and professionals support
- Reducing informal caregivers working charge
Partners
Partners involved in the CoME project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| HI-Iberia Ingenieria y Proyectos SL | SME | Spain | www.hi-iberia.es |
| Biomedical Research Institute for Health in Lleida | End User | Spain | www.irblleida.org |
| University of Geneva | R&D | Switzerland | www.unige.ch |
| Vigisense | SME | Switzerland | www.vigisense.com |
| ConnectedCare services BV | SME | The Netherlands | www.connectedcare.nl |
| Pannon Business Network Assciation | End User | Hungary | www.pbn.hu |
- Project name: Caregivers and Me, CoME
- Website: www.come-aal.eu
- Coordinator: HI-Iberia Ingeniería y Proyectos SL
- Duration: 36 months
- Starting Date: 01.12.2015
- Total budget: € 2.338.834,53€
- Public contribution: € 1.320.650,98€
Objectives
The overall objective of Home4Dem is to address the challenge of dementia care that is a major burden for industrialised societies, through the large-scale deployment in the market of an innovative ICT platform to enable people with dementia to live at home independently and to maintain an active social life, thus improving their quality of life and that of their caregivers. The test of the platform will be in real life condition preceded by a specific training to improve the acceptability of the solution and empower the technological literacy of the users.
Expected results and impact
By contributing to the ability of the People with Dementia to live independently in their house, the Home4Dem platform is expected to improve their quality of life and avoid unnecessary institutionalisations. In addition, the platform will support informal carers in their daily tasks: by reducing the time spent in monitoring activities, the platform is expected to reduce their burden of care.
Ultimately, Home4Dem will enrich the range of existing home-based care services to support independent living and reduce the use of institutional care.
Partners
Partners involved in the Home4Dem project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Institute of Health and Science on Aging (IRCCS-INRCA) | End User | Italy | www.inrca.it |
| ArieLAB Srl | SME | Italy | www.arielab.com |
| iHomeLab | R&D | Switzerland | www.hslu.ch |
| University of Lund | R&D | Sweden | www.lu.se |
| Eichenberger Szenografie | SME | Switzerland | www.szenografie.com |
| Domo Safety | SME | Switzerland | www.domo-safety.com |
| Trelleborg Kommunen | End User | Sweden | www.trelleborg.se |
| Karde AS | SME | Norway | www.karde.no |
| Automa Srl | SME | Italy | www.byautoma.it |
- Project name: HOME-based ICT solutions FOR the independent living of people with DEMentia and their caregivers
- Website: http://www.home4dem.eu/
- Coordinator: I.N.R.C.A.
- Duration: 30 months
- Starting date: 01.09.2015
- Total budget: € 3,352,100.00
- Public contribution: €1,645,950.00