Objectives
The objective of the project is to develop an assistive device called ALICE with navigational and cognitive abilities. The purpose of such a device is to improve the quality of life of ageing people with impaired vision by providing them better mobility and enhancing their perception of the environment.
The assistive device called Alice will navigate user and offer a cognitive description based on a fusion of perceptions gathered from a range of sensors. For that research developments in cognitive sciences, psychology, computer vision, artificial intelligence, robot navigation and advances in positional audio will be combined.
Expected results and impact
The assistive device Alice will help blind and visually impaired to:
- navigate to and from a specific point;
- search for objects and recognise people;
- issue a warning about obstacles and imminent danger and;
- reinstate the cognitive sight system by supplying missing information to help familiarise themselves with their surroundings;
This will increase social inclusion and help users manage their everyday life more independently.
Partners
Partners involved in the ALICE project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Comland d.o.o. IT Solutions Development | SME | Slovenia | www.comland.si |
| Information and Image Management Systems, S.A. | SME | Spain | www.ims.es |
| Institut Mines-Télécom | R&D | France | www.mines-telecom.fr |
| Alpineon d.o.o. | SME | Slovenia | www.alpineon.com |
| Union of the Blind and Partially Sighted of Slovenia | End User | Slovenia | www.zveza-slepih.si |
| Communication for Blind and Disabled People ltd. | End User | United Kingdom | www.screenreader.net |
| Granite 5 Limited | SME | United Kingdom | www.granite5.com |
- Project name: Assistance for Better Mobility and Improved Cognition of Elderly Blind and Visually Impaired – ALICE
- Website: www.alice-project.eu
- Coordinator: Comland d.o.o. IT Solutions Development, Slovenia
- Duration: 30 Months
- Starting Date: 01.06.2012
- Total budget: € 1.797.253
- Public contribution: € 1.107.169
E-STOCKING
The project implementation is based on an iterative strategy. A first phase is dedicated to the development of a pre-prototype with the basic functionalities. After testing and evaluation of the ...
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Venous insufficiency is a chronic health problem with a huge impact on the quality of life of older persons, since it is greatly hindering their mobility both indoor and outdoor. It is characterised by poor back flow of blood to the heart, which can ultimately originate ulcers. The most practical non-invasive treatment to improve blood circulation is compression therapy. But even the use of current compression therapy methods (such as obtrusive and unstylish bandages and stockings) greatly limits the older persons in their mobility and hinders their autonomy and self-confidence to perform daily routine tasks and physical activity.
Expected results and impact
This project targets a novel solution with sophisticated ICT-based compression stockings that can deliver high-standard treatment. The stockings will be easy to use by older persons who will be able to put them on/off by themselves improving their self-sufficiency and mobility. The system will be programmed with a set of parameters according to the compression treatment prescribed by a medical doctor to the specific patient. During routine use, the technology will support real-time automatic adjustments of the compression levels in response to physical/physiological variations detected by the sensors.
Partners
Partners involved in the eStockings project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aarhus University, Department of Engineering | R&D | Denmark | eng.au.dk/en/ |
| Tampere University of Technology | R&D | Finland | www.tut.fi/en |
| University Hospitality Basel | R&D | Switzerland | angionet.ch |
| Silvergreen Oy | SME | Finland | www.silvergreen.fi |
| Handywear | SME | Denmark | www.handywear.dk |
| Nonwowens Innovations and research Institute | SME | United Kingdom | www.nonwovens-innovation.com |
| Tisturion | SME | Denmark | www.tisturion.dk |
| The Lindsay LegClub Foundation | End User | United Kingdom | www.legclub.org |
| Curaviva | End User | Switzerland | www.curaviva.ch |
- Project name: eStockings – New generation smart compression stockings with integrated ICT for superior customized performance
- Website: www.e-stockings.eu
- Coordinator: Tisturion, Denmark
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.02.2012
- Total budget: € 1.934.259
- Public contribution: € 1.165.280
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
The objective of ROSETTA is to help community dwelling people with progressive chronic disabilities, such as Alzheimer’s Disease, to retain their autonomy and quality of life as much as possible and to support their (in)formal carers by developing and providing an ICT system that offers activity guidance and awareness services for independent living.
Expected results and impact
The proposed project ROSETTA focuses on the prevention, early detection and efficient management of treatable psychosocial and physical consequences of chronic diseases that are accompanied by progressive cognitive decline and an increased risk of straying and falling during the advanced stages of the disease.
ROSETTA will provide benefits for end-users:
- Increased ability to perform the activities of daily living and to maintain self-sufficiency for a longer period of time;
- A feeling of safety in one’s own home for a longer period of time;
- Improvement of the quality of life;
- Prevention of overload of the caregiver and as a result prevention of burn-out;
- Early detection of deviations in the patients’ behaviour.
Partners
Partners involved in the Rosetta project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eaton Electric BV | SME | Netherlands | www.eaton.com |
| AVICS BV | SME | Netherlands | www.avics.nl |
| Landsbond der Christelijke Mutualiteiten | End User | Belgium | www.cm.be |
| CPS Europe BV | SME | Netherlands | www.cps-europe.nl |
| FRAUNHOFER-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. | R&D | Germany | www.iese.fraunhofer.de |
| I+ | SME | Italy | www.ipiu.it |
| Novay | R&D | Netherlands | www.novay.nl |
| TNO Defense, Security and Safety | R&D | Netherlands | www.tno.nl |
| Vilans | R&D | Netherlands | www.vilans.nl |
| Vereniging voor Christelijk Hoger Onderwijs, Wetenschappelijk onderzoek en Patientenzorg, waarvan uitgaand VU medisch centrum | R&D | Netherlands | www.vumc.nl |
| Westpfalz-Klinikum GmbH | End User | Germany | www.westpfalz-klinikum.de |
| Zorgpalet Baarn-Soest | End User | Netherlands | www.zorgpaletbaarnsoest.nl |
| CIBEK technology + trading GmbH | SME | Germany | www.cibek.de |
- Project name: Rosetta Guidance and Awareness Services for Independent Living
- Website: www.aal-rosetta.eu
- Coordinator: TBO, The Netherlands
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.06.2009
- Total budget: € 3.273.350
- Public contribution: € 2.232.418
Objectives
A Home Based Kit
SOFTCARE project aims to make a major advancement in the field of home monitoring by providing a home-based kit that will help to detect potential problems by delivering to carers relevant and useful information on senior users daily activity and will also warn carers in case of falls or abnormal behaviours that might be related with a dangerous situation. Additionally, SOFTCARE will also provide a voice communication channel between carers and senior users.
Expected results and impact
The SOFTCARE system will be formed by a set of devices of different kinds (mobile, static and gateway), the firmware contained on this devices and the server application that receives the data from the devices and before storing it processes it detecting activities and risk situations and generating the related alarms if required.
Additionally, the project will produce useful research results in the fields of usability of home monitoring systems, activity recognition based on accelerometer information and location and following the conclusions of the market survey executed during WP1 of the project.
Partners
Partners involved in the SOFTCARE project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Centre de Recerca I Innovació de Catalunya, S.A. (CRIC) | R&D SME | Spain | www.cric.cat |
| Forschungsinstitut des Wiener Roten Kreuzes (FRK) | End User | Austria | www.roteskreuz.at |
| MeshWorks Wireless Ltd. (MWW) | SME | Finland | www.meshworkswireless.com |
| HealthSystems Group (HEALTHSYSTEMS) | SME | United Kingdom | www.healthsysconsult.co.uk |
| Central European Institute of Technology CEIT RALTEC | End User | Austria | www.ceit.at/ceit-raltec |
- Project name: UNOBSTRUSIVE PLUG AND PLAY KIT FOR CHRONIC CONDITION MONITORING BASED ON CUSTOMIZED BEHAVIOUR RECOGNITION FROM WIRELESS LOCALIZATION AND REMOTE SENSORING
- Website: www.softcare-project.eu
- Coordinator: CENTRE DE RECERCA I INNOVACIÓ DE CATALUNYA, S.A. (CRIC), SPAIN
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.11.2009
- Total budget: € 1.205.832,94
- Public contribution: € 649,834.99
Objectives
The aim of the PAMAP project is to develop an ICT-based system for accurately monitoring the physical activity of elderly, in a clinical environment, as well as, in daily life. By putting in evidence possible deficits, health professionals are provided with objective information to enable well-founded diagnosis, better supervision of therapies, and better success measures. At the same time, by providing an entertaining and motivating user interface, the elderly should be encouraged to improve their level of physical activity.
Expected results and impact
The expected result of the PAMAP project is a modular ICT solution, composed of several self-contained system components: sensory equipment, algorithms and software for physical activity analysis, visualisation, and patient feedback, and an Electronic Health Record application with web and i-TV interfaces.
The purpose of this system is to support physical activity monitoring for private (prevention) and professional (secondary prevention and rehabilitation) purposes.
Partners
Partners involved in the PAMAP project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| DFKI | R&D | Germany | www.dfki.de |
| INTRACOM TELECOM | R&D / Large Industry | Greece | www.intracom-telecom.com |
| University of Compiegne | R&D | France | www.utc.fr |
| TRIVISIO Prototyping GmbH | SME | Germany | www.chu-rennes.fr |
| Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Rennes | End User | France | www.chu-rennes.fr |
- Project name: Physical Activity Monitoring for Aging People
- Website: http://www.pamap.org
- Coordinator: DFKI, Germany
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.07.2009
- Total budget: € 2.771.929
- Public contribution: € 1.987.369
Objectives
The project will advance the state-of-the-art in fields of tele-healthcare and ambient intelligence (AmI) and enhance the elderly’s personal environment with audio-visual, sensor / motoric monitoring, and automation abilities for tracing vital signs, activity, behaviour and health condition, and detecting risks and critical situations as well as providing, proactively and reactively, effective and efficient support at home.
Then, in order to focus on the specific risks and problems experienced by elder individuals and due to the growing gap between urban and rural areas, the project is aimed to enable professional carers to access remotely past activity and medical data of their patients at anytime and from anywhere, and to promptly diagnose and react to health and life risks.
Expected results and impact
Regarding REMOTE’s progress beyond the state-of-the-art in integration of technologies and products, the following areas are characteristic.
- Open reference architectures and ontologies;
- Intelligent agents and AmI framework;
- Wearables, sensors and health/activity monitoring
- Independent living applications;
- Social support applications;
- In-home and domotic sensors and localisation systems;
- User interfaces and adaptive systems;
- Tele-healthcare products and services;
- Information extraction and use;
- Understanding of (chronic) and age-related conditions;
- Patient modelling (the medical perspective;
- User modelling (the human-machine interaction perspective;
- Elderly-friendly user interface design & development;
- Evaluation methods and tools;
- Guidelines, standards and policy.
Partners
Partners involved in the REMOTE project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| SIEMENS S.A. | Large Industry | Spain | www.siemens.com |
| TSB Soluciones S.A. | SME | Spain | www.tsbtecnologias.es |
| Universidad Politecnica de Madrid | R&D | Spain | www.lst.tfo.upm.es |
| Fundación para la Investigación Médica Aplicada | R&D | Spain | www.cima.es |
| Saliwell (renamed to Peh-Med Ltd.) | SME | Israel | www.saliwell.com |
| Centre for Research and Technology Hellas | R&D | Greece | www.certh.gr |
| Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas | R&D | Greece | www.ics.forth.gr |
| Netscouts gemeinnuetzige GmbH | R&D | Germany | www.netscouts-ggmbh.de |
| Abama Technologies S.L. | SME | Spain | www.abama.es |
| University Hospital of North-Norway (UNN) - Norwegian Centre for Telemedicine | R&D | Norway | telemed.no |
| The European Older People´s Platform | End User | Belgium | www.age-platform.org |
| Bluepoint IT Solutions | SME | Romania | www.bluepoint-it.ro |
| Medea SRL | SME | Italia | www.medeaproject.eu |
| Fraunhofer-Institut für Biomedizinische Technik | R&D | Germany | www.ibmt.fraunhofer.de |
| Ortholine Ltd. | SME | Israel | www.ortholine.co.il |
- Project name: Remote health and social care for independent living of isolated elderly with chronic conditions
- Website: www.remote-project.eu
- Coordinator: CERTH-IBBR, Greece
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.06.2009
- Total budget: € 3.410.726
- Public contribution: € 2.249.194
Objectives
eCAALYX’s objectives can be summarised as follows:
- Health monitoring of older and elderly persons with multiple chronic conditions, at home and on the move (the original CAALYX did not cover the health monitoring and management of older people with comorbidity).
- Improve the quality of life of elderly persons by increasing their freedom and safety. This is achieved by promptly detecting and controlling any decompensation episodes, so that their independent life at home can be extended and their hospitalisation or admission in nursing homes are avoided for longer periods. Besides improving the elderly person’s quality of life, this approach will also result in various cost reductions and in relieving some of the growing burden on acute care/healthcare systems.
- Prevent deterioration of the patient condition by providing continuous support, guidance, and relevant health education (the original CAALYX did not have such strong home-based components for the delivery of education on leading a healthy lifestyle).
- Achieve all of the above goals by providing a solution that is commercially viable, acceptable by all users/stakeholders, reliable, long-term, flexible, scalable, and virtually maintenance-free in non-technical environments, thus suitable for real-world deployment.
Expected results and impact
As a result, the project will provide a distributed and scalable system to allow monitoring of elders by multiple professionals simultaneously (elder’s doctors and caretakers) and will enable the provision of meaningful coordinated actions under the concept of a health agenda for prevention and self‐management of their multiple chronic conditions. It will be formed by the home and mobile monitoring systems, their associated health, mobility and location sensors and the caretaker site.
Partners
Partners involved in the eCAALYX project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fundació Privada CETEMMSA | R&D | Spain | www.cetemmsa.com |
| Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo | R&D | Spain | www.tid.es |
| INESC Porto – Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores do Porto | R&D | Portugal | www2.inescporto.pt |
| University of Plymouth Enterprise Ltd | R&D | United Kingdom | www.universityplymouth.com |
| University of Limerick | R&D | Ireland | www.ul.ie |
| Corscience GmbH & Co KG | SME | Germany | www.corscience.de |
| Fundació Hospital Comarcal Sant Antoni Abat | End User | Spain | www.fhcsaa.cat |
| Fraunhofer Portugal | R&D | Portugal | www.fraunhofer.pt |
| TeleMedic Systems, Ltd | SME | United Kingdom | www.telemedicsystems.com |
| Zentrum für Kardiovaskuläre Telemedizin GmbH | End User | Germany | www.ccr.charite.de |
| National University of Ireland, Galway | R&D | Ireland | www.nuigalway.ie |
- Project name: Enhanced Complete Ambient Assisted Living Experiment
- Website: www.ecaalyx.org
- Coordinator: Fundació Privada CETEMMSA (Spain)
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.05.2009
- Total budget: € 4.118.002
- Public contribution: € 2.689.499
HAPPY AGEING
HAPPY AGEING system will be composed of three main modules: a lifestyle monitor, able to record main activities taking place in the home and compare them with habits of the monitored subject; a ...
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The Happy Ageing project objectives are:
- to prevent the incidence of chronic conditions and to manage such conditions when present, supporting independent living;
- to develop and integrate a customizable system matching the demand for technology by the elderly with current market supply;
- to directly involve the end-user in the development phase, assessing the user’s expectations and needs, assuring user acceptance of the new system;
- to stimulate business innovation and create market opportunities to distribute and sell HAPPY AGEING devices.
Expected results and impact
There is considerable scope for the development and application of assistive technology to make the homes of older people more able to support care, either self-care or by others. HAPPY AGEING, will stress this issue, trying to reduce the costs for caring with a less use of institute and to strength the position of older persons as active consumers, making their individual demands clearer by a deep analysis of user’s needs.
Partners
Partners involved in the HAPPY AGEING project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI RIPOSO E CURA PER ANZIANI V.E. II (INRCA) | R&D | Italy | www.inrca.it |
| FUNDACIÓ PRIVADA CETEMMSA (CETEMMSA) | R&D | Spain | www.cetemmsa.com |
| SPEED AUTOMAZIONE Srl (SPD) | Large Industry | Italy | www.speedautomazi.it |
| GLOBAL SECURITY INTELLIGENCE LIMITED (GSI) | SME | United Kingdom | globalseci.com |
| AB.ACUS Srl (ABACUS) | SME | Italy | www.ab-acus.com |
| INSTITUTE OF SOCIOLOGY, HUNGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (ISO) | R&D | Hungary | socorg.socio |
| ASSOCIATION OF CATHOLIC ORGANIZATIONS OF SENIOR CITIZENS (UNIEKBO) | End User | Netherlands | www.uniekbo.nl |
- Project name: A Home based APProach to the Years of AGEING
- Website: http://happyageing.info/
- Coordinator: INRCA, Italy
- Duration: 28 Months
- Starting Date: 01.04.2009
- Total budget: € 1.673.779
- Public contribution: € 986.153
Objectives
The Health at Home project (H@H) aims at solving societal problems related to the provision of healthcare services for elderly citizens affected by Chronic Hearth Failure (CHF), by enabling remote self-management of the patients and connecting in‐hospital care of the acute syndrome with out‐of‐hospital follow‐up. The new home care model should allow planning, controlling and monitoring of activities carried out by patient, caregivers, social and sanitary professionals, enabling the medical staff to monitor situations at distance and take action in case of necessity by the involvement of public and private health organizations. This new strategy will decrease the acting time in cases of destabilization of CHF patients and will reduce avoidable hospital re‐admissions, resulting in an improved quality of life for the patient and in a cost reduction for the National Sanitary System.
H@H Demonstration and results
A technical validation of the system has been implemented involving 30 patients with CHF disease in NYHA class III and IV, with an average age of 62 years and recently hospitalized for HF. The minimum period of monitoring was one month. A specific testing protocol and a questionnaire have been developed to gather patients, caregivers and physicians feedbacks and validate the system. The results show a very limited number of activity misses (<3%), mostly in the first days of monitoring, confirming also the property of such system to improve the therapy compliance. Moreover, the number of false positive alarms is less than 5%. No connectivity and transmission problems, including data lost, occurred. All end‐users reported a positive feedback and good satisfaction level in the final questionnaire. Physicians reported that the use of this platform does not load up in a significant way their regular activity, but represents a valid means to control at distance the evolution of the followed patients thanks to the high quality of acquired signals and alarms detection capability. All physicians involved in the demonstration are definitively in favour of the adoption of the H@H system. The 89% of the patients report a very high satisfaction level, highlighting the friendliness of the solution and the easiness to follow the daily therapy.
Expected results and impact
The H@H system is expected to enhance the quality of life of CHF patients (at present 14 million of European Citizens with an incidence of 3,6 million of new cases per year), to improve the effectiveness and cost management of specialized centres thus reducing costs for the public sanitary system. H@H ICT technologies have been successfully proved through an initial demonstration phase, while the clinical validity and the economic analysis for this new healthcare model has to be validated on a wider number of patients.
Partners
Partners involved in the H@H project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Consorzio Pisa Ricerche | R&D | Italy | |
| Caribel Programmazione Sri | R&D | Italy | |
| Mediasoft Ltd | Business | Slovenia | www.mediasoft.si |
| Fundacion CITIC | SME | Spain | |
| Hospitales Universitarios 'Virgen del Rocio' | R&D | Spain | www.hospitaluvrocio.es/ |
| Fondazione Gabriele Monasterio | R&D | Italy | www.ftgm.it/ |
| Zdravstveni Dom Koper | End User | Slovenia | www.zd-koper.si/ |
- Project name: Health@Home
- Website: www.health‐at‐home.eu
- Coordinator: Consorzio Pisa Ricerche, Italy
- Duration: 30 Months
- Starting Date: 01.02.2009
- Total budget: € 2.699.799
- Public contribution: € 1.178.600