Objectives
The project develops an integrated entertainment solution for care, rehab and diagnostics. PLAYTIME motivates in a playful manner to perform personalised emotion-oriented exercise units to stimulate cognitive processes, to address physical activities and foster social inclusion. The objective is to motivate dementia users to enter a positive feedback cycle of periodic training with sensors that enable diagnostics on a daily basis, and to receive recommendations on the basis of these data that propose more personalised and better suited exercises for improved training.
Expected results and impact
PLAYTIME will deliver a fully integrated pilot application which will be evaluated in field tests in Austria and The Netherlands in a 2-stage approach. The solution contains an interactive mat, a mobile app, a diagnostics toolbox, a caregiver serious game and a recommendation toolbox. With this interactive, multimodal and digital solution we follow a blue ocean strategy, which satisfies the global trends of digitisation, gamification, individualisation and demographic change at the same time in the growing market of care, rehab and diagnostics.
Partners
Partners involved in the PLAYTIME project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| JOANNEUM RESEARCH Forschungsgesellschaft mbH | R&D | Austria | www.joanneum.at |
| Bouncing Bytes Lefkopoulos KG | SME | Austria | www.bouncingbytes.at |
| FameL GmbH | SME | Austria | www.famel.at |
| Sozialverein Deutschlandsberg | End User | Austria | www.sozialverein-deutschlandsberg.at |
| Geestelijke Gezondheidszorg Eindhoven en de Kempen | End User | The Netherlands | www.ggze.nl |
| Stichting Katholieke Universiteit Brabant, Tilburg University | R&D | The Netherlands | www.tilburguniversity.edu |
| McRoberts BV. | SME | The Netherlands | www.mcroberts.nl |
| MindBytes | SME | Belgium | www.mindbytes.be |
| Ghent University | R&D | Belgium | www.ugent.be |
- Project name: Playful Multimodal Daily training, Diagnostics and Recommendation System within a Social Network
- Website: www.aal-playtime.eu
- Coordinator: JOANNEUM RESEARCH Forschungsgesellschaft mbH
- Duration: 36 months
- Starting date: 01.04.2017
- Total budget: 1,649.027 EUR
- Public contribution: 1,117.239 EUR
Objectives
Get Ready For Activity – persuasive ambiences is the modular application of ambient lighting, sound and scents research to create room ambiences for supporting people with dementia (PwD) and their caregivers in their daily activities and structure and positively influence erratic behaviour (depression and agitation) of PwD. The project aims to develop, implement and validate as well as get ready for the market an intelligent, modular, persuasive ambient system to prepare PwD for new or changing activities during the day and thereby assist the care recipients as well as the caregivers.
Expected results and impact
Market ready modules (light, sound and scent) for creating automated room ambiences are planned to be ready two years from the end of the research project. The business plan involves a contractor for each country who helps integrating the solution in care facilities and home settings and an affordable licence system for needed software. GREAT will support PwD to live at their own homes for a longer period of their disease. The system helps with agitation or apathy in the patients and thereby ease the burden of caregivers at home and in facilities and allows for individual configuration at reduced costs.
Partners
Partners involved in the GREAT project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Applied Sciences Vorarlberg GmbH | R&D | Austria | www.fhv.at |
| Bartenbach GmbH | SME | Austria | www.bartenbach.com |
| Intefox GmbH | SME | Austria | |
| Tirol Kliniken GmbH - Hall | End User | Austria | www.tirol-kliniken.at |
| University of Applied Sciences St. Gallen | R&D | Switzerland | www.fhsg.ch |
| CURAVIVA Schweiz | End User | Switzerland | www.curaviva.ch |
| EMT - energy management team AG | SME | Switzerland | www.emt.ch |
| apollis - Institute of Social Research and Opinion Polling | SME | Italy | www.apollis.it |
- Project name: Get Ready For Activity – Ambient Day Scheduling with Dementia
- Website: http://great.labs.fhv.at/
- Coordinator: Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences, Austria
- Duration: 36 months
- Starting date: 01.02.2017
- Total budget: 3 mi €
- Public contribution: 1,66 mi €
Objectives
The CAMI project offers a fully integrated AAL solution at the overlap of tele-care and health, smart homes and robotics by offering services for social care, health care, home care and mobility. This solution consist of:
- (1) a viable solution for a next generation robotic framework that offers intelligent user-, context- and environment aware services with natural and comfortable interfaces for older adults;
- (2) a set of personalized practical services, ranging from well-being and comfort to social interaction, and to health care;
- (3) visible demonstrations of the CAMI system through extensively tested and validated pilot.
Expected results and impact
CAMI will offer a Core System Component, offering different services to the user:
- (1) the capability of health, home and environment monitoring and management;
- (2) an intelligent, informed, friendly collaborator, taking orders, giving advice or reminders and ready to help, and get help, when needed;
- (3) a platform that offers a personalized, intelligent and dynamic program management also reporting and communication to health professionals;
- (4) telepresence for communication (video, voice) with caregivers, family, friends through multi-modal interfaces.
Partners
Partners involved in the CAMI project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest | R&D | Romania | www.upb.ro |
| Centrul IT pentru Stiinta si Tehnologie | SME | Romania | www.citst.ro |
| CNet Svenska AB | SME | Sweden | www.cnet.se |
| Mälardalen Universit | R&D | Sweden | www.mdh.se |
| Ecotopias | End User | Denmark | ecotopias.dk |
| Aliviate Development ApS | SME | Denmark | www.aliviate.dk |
| ECLEXYS Sagl | SME | Switzerland | www.eclexys.com |
| Knowledge Society Association | End User | Poland | www.ssw.org.pl |
- Project name: Artificially intelligent ecosystem for self-management and sustainable quality of life in AAL – CAMI
- Website: www.camiproject.eu
- Coordinator: University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest
- Duration: 36 months
- Starting Date: 01.06.2015
- Total budget: € 2.675.528,73
- Public contribution: € 2.028.517,28
Objectives
The NOAH project aims at developing innovative continuous monitoring techniques, based on non-intrusive home sensors and on advanced data analytics techniques.
By monitoring behavioural features in daily living activities, user-specific activity profiles are worked out. Changes (either abrupt or slowly developing), possibly related to health or wellness issues, can thus be detected in a fully automatic fashion, relieving the caregiver from the sensor-data interpretation burden. Differentiated feedbacks are given to the end-user, the caregiver and the care system.
Expected results and impact
NOAH is expected to provide the end-user and his relatives with more detailed insights and awareness, with the ability of early detecting meaningful trends or events. To the formal caregiver and the care providers, the augmented knowledge about users’ current needs can profitably integrate into care routines, providing prioritising tools and alerts coming from continuous monitoring. To the healthcare system, continuous monitoring and early anomaly detection should support effective prevention strategies, resulting in avoiding or reducing hospitalisation and improving end-user’s quality of life.
Partners
Partners involved in the NOAH project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Parma | R&D | Italy | www.unipr.it |
| AICOD s.r.l. | SME | Italy | www.aicod.it |
| PROGES s.c.a r.l. | Large Industry / End User | Italy | www.proges.it |
| Transilvania University of Brașov | R&D | Romania | www.unitbv.ro |
| VISION SYSTEM S.r.l. | SME | Romania | www.vision-systems.ro |
| University of Applied Sciences FH JOANNEUM | R&D | Austria | www.fh-joanneum.at |
| Arzt und Labor EDV A. Günzberg GmbH | SME | Austria | www.alag.at |
| TRiAS architecten B.v.b.a | SME / End User | Belgium | www.triasarchitecten.be |
- Project name: Not Alone at Home
- Website: http://www.noahproject.eu/
- Coordinator: University of Parma
- Duration: 36 months
- Starting date: 01.06.2016
- Total budget: € 2.039.316,60
- Public contribution: € 1.122.463,38
SENSE-GARDEN
The progressive impact of dementia on memory, communication, behaviour, orientation, and mood can have serious implications for an individual’s wellbeing. Whilst there is currently no cure for ...
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There are 47 million people living with dementia worldwide and expected to increase to 131 million by 2050. A person with dementia experiences loss of function, especially memory, eventually affecting verbal communication and ultimately creating disconnection from the close ones such as family and friends. The SENSE-GARDEN project will create rooms that automatically adapt to the memories and lives of their visitors with dementia. The aim is to evoke and awaken emotions by providing stimuli to the different senses, such as sight, touch, hearing, and smell, leading to a re-connection with the reality around.
Expected Results and Impact
The main question to be answered in SENSE-GARDEN is: can we use a technological adaptive space, stimulating senses with music, images, smells, to be used as a therapy offered to older adults living with dementia to reduce the progression of the disease? The project will use these immersive spaces, simulating images of mountains, music of singing birds, and forest aromas. We expect to be able to access lost areas of the memory in persons with dementia and to help them re-connecting to reality. SENSE-GARDENS in four countries will be totally operating at project end to attract European marketing interest.
Partners
Partners involved in the SENSE-GARDEN project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| University Hospital of North Norway | R&D | Norway | www.ehealthresearch.no |
| Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy from Bucharest | End User | Romania | www.umfcd.ro |
| Odda Municipality | End User | Norway | www.odda.kommune.no |
| Sta. Casa da Misericordia | End User | Portugal | www.scml.pt |
| Compexin S.A. | SME | Romania | www.compexin.ro |
| Vulpia Vlaanderen VZW | End User | Belgium | www.vulpia.be |
| e-Point | SME | Belgium | www.e-point-the-electronic-point-of-care.com |
| Norwegian University of Science and Technology | R&D | Norway | www.ntnu.no |
- Project name: Virtual and memory adaptable spaces creating stimuli for the senses in ageing people with dementia
- Website: sense-garden.eu
- Coordinator: University Hospital of North Norway
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.06.2017
- Total budget: € 2,1 mi
- Public contribution: € 1.3 mi
Objectives
The motivation behind gAALaxy is to support older adults in staying autonomously and socially active in their familiar environment and in introducing them to AAL-technologies while using an ambient and activating approach. The unique holistic approach of gAALaxy is the merging of stand-alone solutions that support elderly people in their core areas of life by combining home automation with AAL products and services on an adaptable and modular “AAL ready Smart Home” system that fits into the changing life phases of the user.
Expected results and impact
Next to the expected result that market-ready AAL-solutions will benefit from the interoperability created by gAALaxy and the creation of AAL scenarios that also make use of the capabilities of Smart Home solutions the project aims to measure the effects on Quality of Life aspects by primary as well as secondary end-users. By doing so the project will, besides providing new standardised APIs, at like a business catalyst for AAL products to easier reach customers and sales channels. Even after the project duration it is planned to have an ongoing cooperation based on gAALaxy to integrate more solutions and to develop AAL scenarios using other technologies.
Partners
Partners involved in the gAALaxy project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Innsbruck | R&D | Austria | www.uibk.ac.at |
| University of Antwerp | R&D | Belgium | www.uantwerpen.be |
| European Academy of Bolzano / Bozen | R&D | Italy | www.eurac.edu |
| Austrian Red Cross – Freiwillige Rettung Innsbruck | End User | Austria | www.roteskreuz-innsbruck.at |
| Privatklinik Villa Melitta – Casa di Cura | End User / SME | Italy | www.villamelitta.it |
| CogVis GmbH | SME | Austria | www.cogvis.at |
| Fifthplay n.v. | SME | Belgium | www.fifthplay.com |
| SIS Consulting GmbH | SME | Austria | www.sis-consulting.com |
| SF1 Bvba | SME | Belgium | www.sf1.services |
- Project name: gAALaxy – The universal system for independent and interconnected living at home
- Website: www.gaalaxy.eu
- Coordinator: University of Innsbruck – Department of Strategic Management, Marketing and Tourism
- Duration: 30 months
- Starting date: 01.05.2016
- Total budget: 3,785,408.81 €
- Public contribution: 2,072,994.94 €
Objectives
Follow.Me aims to satisfy people’s desire of monitoring the position of elderly people with different forms of dementia and Alzheimer, in order to prevent danger situations. Caregivers and family members will be able to track their patients and loved ones using geofencing technologies in order to know when they leave or enter a given area, the speed they are travelling, send them notifications that will appear on the watch and even call them. They will be able to create safe areas, unsafe areas and alarms when the Follow.Me device leaves a given location or when it arrives at a given place.
Expected results and impact
The outcomes of Follow.me will be an integrated solution consisting of: an application developed for smartwatches available on the market (iOS and Android) for the localisation of the elderly and people with mental disorders in an outdoor and indoor; an indoor location system based on an innovative use of Wi-Fi technology/BLE for an easy localisation of the patient; cloud-based services, available for families and medical workers, that can generate a wide range of alarms and to ensure a rapid and timely communication with the patient through the use of PCs or Smartphones.
Partners
Partners involved in the Follow.Me project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per l’Informatica | R&D | Italy | www.consorzio-cini.it |
| University and Emergency Hospital of Bucharest | End User | Romania | www.suub.ro |
| SIVECO | Large Industry | Romania | www.siveco.ro |
| Austrian Institute of Technology | R&D | Austria | www.ait.ac.at |
| MobiMesh | SME | Italy | www.mobimesh.eu |
| Epsilon | SME | Italy | www.epsilonline.com |
| SYNYO GmbH | SME | Austria | www.synyo.com |
| LiCalab vzw | End User | Belgium | www.licalab.be |
| Wit-Gele Kruis Limburg vzw | End User | Belgium | www.witgelekruis.be |
- Project name: Follow.Me
- Website: http://followmeproject.eu/overview.html
- Coordinator: Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per l’Informatica (CINI)
- Duration: 24 months
- Starting date: 01.06.2016
- Total budget: 2,2 mi €
- Public contribution: 1,1 mi €
Objectives
DayGuide introduces a novel ICT-based system, supporting older adults suffering from mild cognitive impairment and early dementia in their daily life and their families. The system also supports persons living alone with no care person available on a regular basis. Persons with cognitive impairment experience various domestic challenges, depriving them from the pursuit of an independent, self-organised life at home. DayGuide responds directly to these challenges through technology allowing people to live as independent as possible for as long as possible. Informal caregivers benefit through improved information and exchange in a networked environment.
Expected results and impact
DayGuide will improve the Quality of Life for end-users. The main results will be: 1) Structuring daily activities for the elderly in early phases of MCI or dementia and providing significant improvement as it is oriented towards the specific needs of the person (user-centred design). 2) This also affects the quality of life of the carer. Preventing burden and stress in the support provider significantly reduces the need for pharmacological treatment of this group and prevents secondary diseases. 3) National policies aim for the elderly to live as long as possible in their own environment. The problems and the solution that DayGuide provides apply in the same way throughout Europe.
DayGuide
Partners involved in the DayGuide project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH | R&D | Austria | www.ait.ac.at |
| Cubigo International NV | SME | Belgium | www.cubigo.com |
| CREAGY AG | SME | Switzerland | www.creagy.ch |
| Movisie | R&D | The Netherlands | www.movisie.nl |
| terzStiftung | End User | Switzerland | www.terzstiftung.ch |
| De Wever | End User | The Netherlands | www.dewever.nl |
| MAS Alzheimerhilfe | End User | Austria | www.alzheimer-hilfe.at |
| Kadex BV | SME | The Netherlands | www.kadex-domotica.com |
| Kepler University Clinic GmbH | R&D | Autria | www.kepleruniklinikum.at |
- Project name: DayGuide
- Website: www.dayguide.eu
- Facebook: www.facebook.com/dayguide.dementia
- Twitter: @DayGuide
- Coordinator: Dr. Heinrich Garn
- Duration: 36 months
- Starting date: 01.04.2016
- Total budget: 2,2 mi €
- Public contribution: 1,3 mi €
StayActive
In an initial phase, end users will be contacted and a set of initial requirements will be developed. These requirements will be refined together with the partners and a final user requirements set ...
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The StayActive system aims to reduce the stress condition and health problems and work problems arising from stress for older end users, while at the same time supporting the organisation by enabling users to adhere to corporate policies more easily.
StayActive objectives are(i) increasing autonomy and productivity in older workers; (ii) promoting empowerment and more equal access to services; (iii) creating a product that has an impact on the end user audience and has social relevance; (iv) providing access to a novel ICT product for older workers, which would easily integrate in their daily life.
Expected results and impact
To develop the Stress and burn-out detection prototype system consisting in: wearable sensors and cloud system able to monitor continuously some of the biological signals for detecting and indicating the stress state; a mobile application in order to supports the user “just-in-time”, through personalised recommendations and various relaxation activities, including relaxation games. An important social and ethical issue is the ability of the StayActive system is to collect personal and sensitive data about an older worker. The challenge is to optimise between comfort / strong support, only possible when personal data are collected, and protection against unwanted data collection, which leads to less
StayActive support.
Partners
Partners involved in the StayActive project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| ICT-based Solutions for Supporting Occupation in Life of Older Adults | Large Industry | Romania | www.teamnet.ro |
| Ana Aslan International Foundation | End User | Romania | www.brainaging.ro |
| RGB Medical Devices, S.A | SME | Spain | www.rgb-medical.com |
| HI-Iberia Ingenieria y proyectos S.L. | SME | Spain | www.hi-iberia.es |
| University of Geneva | R&D | Switzerland | www.unige.ch |
| ELearning Studios | SME | United Kingdom | www.e-learningstudios.com |
- Project name: StayActive
- Website: http://www.stay-active.net/
- Coordinator: Teamnet International SA
- Duration: 30 months
- Starting Date: 01.04.2014
- Total budget: 2 679 021 €
- Public contribution: 1 536 395 €
Objectives
The objective of CARELINK is to deliver a tracking solution that addresses the issue of wandering in People with Dementia (PwD), allowing carers to monitor PwD. Using current machine-learning technologies we will profile user routes that can then be used to build a repository of route patterns to be compared against live routes, thus allowing for early warnings if deviation that looks like a wandering event occurs. This will be backed up by dissemination and knowledge exchange functionality to keep carers and interested parties up to date with the latest development and information related to the condition.
Expected results and impact
CARELINK intends to deliver a low-cost, low-energy connected health solution for carers to monitor the location and proximity of their loved ones with Dementia. This will be delivered through a tailored wireless sensor network which will be developed to support the location and proximity tracking. The platform will learn of patients’ location movements, thus allowing patterns to be built up for future detection of pattern change in behaviour. This will improve the probability of survival following a wandering event and will improve the quality of care for People with Dementia.
Partners
Partners involved in the CARELINK project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Waterford Institute of Technology - TSSG | R&D | Ireland | www.tssg.org |
| Uninova | R&D | Portugal | www.uninova.pt |
| U-Sentric | SME | Belgium | www.u-sentric.com |
| Open Sky Data Systems | SME | Ireland | www.openskydata.com |
| Akademie Berlingen | End User | Switzerland | www.akademie-berlingen.ch |
| CREAGY | SME | Switzerland | www.creagy.ch |
- Project name: CARELINK for People with Dementia and their community
- Website: http://carelink-aal.org
- Coordinator: Waterford Institute of Technology – TSSG
- Duration: 30 months
- Starting date: 01.08.2017
- Total budget: €2,282,944
- Public contribution: €1,505,155