Objectives
The HELP project intends to provide Parkinson Patients with a system that can supply specific amounts of drug according to their physical activity requirements at any moment. Because it is a continuous drug delivery system, drug peaks and “valleys” in the blood stream are avoided and so improving classical PD symptoms. The HELP system is made up of a wearable subcutaneous pump, a intraoral cartridge inserted in patients’ mouth, a wearable movement sensor, blood pressure device and a control system that is constantly sending data, checking the patient and calculating the right quantity of drug to be supplied.
Expected results and impact
This project intends to provide a proof that a monitoring drug delivery system can improve the quality of live of Parkinson patients. We want to test whether this system is seen like an improvement in the three different countries we are setting pilots. Because this consortium is very targeted on the eHealth market, each of the partners is very interested in whether commercialize or improve their prototypes its services and devices or testing a specific drug that we are using in HELP.
Partners
Partners involved in the HELP project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Telefónica I+D | R&D | Spain | www.tid.es |
| UPC | R&D | Spain | www.upc.edu |
| ABAT | R&D | Spain | www.fhcsaa.cat |
| NEVET | SME | Israel | www.maccabi4u.co.il |
| Peh-Med | SME | Israel | www.peh-med.com |
| Telecom Italia | Large Industry | Italy | www.telecomitalia.com |
| University of Palermo | R&D | Italy | portale.unipa.it |
| HSG-IMIT | R&D | Germany | www.hsg-imit.de |
| MSG | SME | Germany | mobile-solution-group.de |
- Project name: Home-based Empowered Living for Parkinson’s Disease Patients
- Website: http://help-parkinson-aal-project.tid.es
- Coordinator: Telefonica, Spain
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.06.2009
- Total budget: € 11.625.000
- Public contribution: € 1.840.000
Objectives
The DOMEO platform includes:
- 2 types of robots (cognitive and physical);
- graphic and tactile interfaces;
- voice recognition and speech synthesis;
- cloud services for tele-presence;
- tools for integration of various sensors and services.
The middleware software platform used for integration, is available in open-source, to make easier different implementations and scenarios. DOMEO deals with all the aspects of assistive robotics :
- robotic and internet technologies;
- medical and non-medical sensors;
- interface with home infrastructures;
- ethical issues.
To demonstrate and validate the potential of open robotic platforms, intensive trials (lab trials, site demos, patient’s homes field tests) are scheduled during the 3rd year.
Expected results and impact
DOMEO aims at helping elderly to stay longer and safer at home. By using advanced robotic technologies, DOMEO will also help caregivers in their daily work.
Partners
Partners involved in the DOMEO project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROBOSOFT | SME | France | www.robosoft.com |
| ISIR | R&D | France | www.isir.upmc.fr |
| CHUT | R&D | France | www.chu-toulouse.fr |
| NILR | End User | Hungary | rehabint.hu |
| TAS | Large Industry | France | www.thalesgroup.com |
| TUW | R&D | Austria | www.is.tuwien.ac.at |
| BME | R&D | Hungary | portal.bme.hu |
| Meditech | SME | Hungary | www.meditech.com |
- Project name: Domestic Robot for elderly assistance
- Website: http://www.aal-domeo.eu
- Coordinator: ROBOSOFT (France)
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.07.2009
- Total budget: € 2.400.000
- Public contribution: € 2.160.000
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
EMOTIONAAL
The aim of EMOTIONAAL is to develop an integrated healthcare-concept for elderly people in rural areas in Europe This includes the four important innovations: An integrated services platform ...
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The increase of chronic conditions and chronic diseases in European societies – especially in rural areas – is evident. The aim of scientific and political intentions is to extend the time elderly people in rural areas can live independently in their home environment. In this project an integrated solution for the elderly by the seamless inclusion of social services and new technologies in rural areas, named “The Emotional Village” was developed. The project includes intense support for self-care and prevention and assistance to carry out daily activities, health and activity monitoring and enhances safety and security.
Expected results and impact
The use of an IT supported regional care structure, telemedicine and biofeedback provides change of the health behavior by monitoring of critical biomarker and support of health promoting behavior. In case of diabetic metabolism a collaborative and individual health behavior should be improved by the advancement of participation in social life. This offers the elderly of rural areas a long and independent life in their own homes with an increase of quality of life.
Partners
Partners involved in the EMOTIONAAL project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| B. Braun Melsungen AG (BBM) | Large Industry | Germany | www.bbraun.de |
| Protestant University of Applied Sciences DepT. of Health Sciences and Nursing, Darmstadt (EHD) | R&D | Germany | www.efh-darmstadt.de |
| Opsolution NanoPhotonics GmbH, Kassel (OPN) | Large Industry | Germany | www.opsolution.de |
| HD Projekte | Large Industry | Germany | www.hd-projekte.de |
| University of Marburg, Institute of Geography (UNIMR) | R&D | Germany | www.uni-marburg.de/fb19 |
| University of Kassel, Institute of Nanostructure and Analytics (INA) | R&D | Germany | te.ina-kassel.de |
| DIAK University Institute for Socio-Economic Sciences, Pieksämäkki, Finland (DIAK) | R&D | Finland | english.diak.fi |
| Vitaphone GmbH, Telemedical Services, Vienna, SME (VPH) | Large Industry | Austria | www.vitaphone.co.at |
- Project name: The Emotional Village: Integrated Preventive AAL concept for the rural Aging Society in Europa
- Website: www.emotionalaal.eu
- Coordinator: B. Braun Melsungen AG (BBM)
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.07.2009
- Total budget: € 3.200.000
- Public contribution: € 1.600.000
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 ...
Read moreObjectives
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
Objectives
Identifying the end user and to find out which requirements it has on our CapMouse human interface technology of Brusell Dental connecting to PC/Mac and Android mobile devices. The most demanding group of end users is probably persons suffering from high spinal injuries whit this group setting the demands for the development work of the carrier. The product will be modular in the sense that the sensor arm and head will be adapted to fit different kinds of carriers, for example headset, ear cap (like a hearing aid) or to glasses. The primary use of the Cap Mouse will be to control PC/Mac/Android devices as an alternative to eye tracking and similar where time scanning today is used to confirm a choice.
Expected results and impact
The Capmouse project will result in a CapMouse (product) interface (headset) for elderly/elderly disabled to offer tongue controlled keyboard/mouse functionality via standard USB connection, over Windows OS applications and Android applications. The project delivers a proof of concept on how a head mounted capacitive sensor controlled by the tongue can be used as an input for a human machine interface. The main target group is elderly/elderly disabled. The concept will include a prototype with a multi sensor headset and a hardwired hardware interface based on HID/USB.
Partners
Partners involved in the CapMouse project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brussel Dental AS. | SME / R&D | Norway | www.bruselldental.com/aal |
| PRO | End user | Sweden | www.pro.se/ |
| HMC International | SME / R&D | Belgium | www.hmc-products.com |
| Lots Design | SME | Sweden | www.lotsdesign.se |
| Stinct | SME | Sweden | www.shiftdesign.se |
- Project name: Cap Mouse
- Website: www.brusell-dental.com/aal
- Coordinator: Brusell Dental
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 15.06.2009
- Total budget: € 1.131.110
- Public contribution: € € 540.000
Objectives
The project CARE aims to realise an intelligent monitoring and alarming system for independent living of elderly persons. Specifically, this project targets the automated recognition and alarming of critical situations (like fall detection) using a stationary (and non-wearable) technology and real-time processing while preserving the privacy and taking into account system dependability issues, especially ensuring reliability, availability, security, and safety from a holistic point of view. A biologically-inspired dynamic stereo vision sensor from AIT is being integrated into the Everon caring system for seamless analysis and tracking of elderly persons at home. This real-time information is exploited for incident detection (e.g., fall detection, immobilised person), and instantaneous alarming the concerned parties.
Expected results and impact
The system concept mainly targets single individuals living in their own private homes. By targeting elderly persons living in their private homes, the business potential of CARE is huge.
The AAL market is changing and is expected to boom in the next few years as a result of demographic developments and large R&D investment by industries and stakeholders. Safety of elderly at home is a clear European dimension. Actual products on the market mainly consist of wearable systems and intelligent floor technologies and exist since several years; however their success is narrowed to limited market like nursing homes rather than the widespread aged communities.
In the context of independent living, wearable systems do not have the best acceptance for primary end-users (elderly persons), especially those who are not impaired.
The CARE system has a huge potential for exploitation and ensuring safety for independent living if the evaluation goes successful. The fall detection service can be integrated in the Everon caring system for a wider deployed in Europe strengthening the independent living market and society.
Partners
Partners involved in the CARE project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIT Austrian Institute of Technology (Coordinator) | R&D | Austria | www.ait.ac.at |
| SensoCube GmbH | SME | Germany | www.sensocube.com |
| Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Biomedical Engineering Knowledge Centre | R&D | Hungary | portal.bme.hu |
| Oy Everon Ab | SME | Finland | www.everon.net |
| Yrjö ja Hanna Ltd | End User | Finland | www.yrjojahanna.fi |
| Senioren Wohnpark Weser GmbH | End User | Germany | www.residenz-gruppe.de |
- Project name: Safe Private Homes for Elderly Persons
- Website: www.care-aal.eu
- Coordinator: AIT Austrian Institute of Technology
- Duration: 30 Months
- Starting Date: 01.07.2009
- Total budget: € 2.380.000
- Public contribution: € 1.730.000
Objectives
The project supports the development of an open, standardized, integrated European platform to deliver connected ICT-based assistive living solutions for the elderly. By building on initiatives at the national level and, taking account of different funding mechanisms in EU member states (Social insurance-based; Germany and Hungary, private insurance-based; Netherlands and taxation-based; UK), to develop and assess business models to support the mainstream provision of assistive solutions. The focus will be on dementia sufferers, but the platform will offer the potential to be extended to other chronic conditions.
Expected results and impact
The project has already had significant commercial success. The UK partners, Peverell and Centrihealth, have developed a new assisted living solution which uses the corkboard component of the CCE solution. They have invested considerable resources of their own to launch a new assisted living solution called Apollo in the UK and they openly state that they would not have developed this solution had they not been involved in the CCE project. UID have developed a dementia RFID enabled table, which has commercial spin offs in other areas.
Partners
Partners involved in the CCE project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Biomedical Engineering Knowledge Centre | R&D | Hungary | http://english.www.bme.hu |
| Building Research Establishment | R&D | UK | www.bre.co.uk |
| Centrihealth | Large Industry | UK | www.centrihealth.com |
| Fraunhofer | SME | Germany | www.igd.fraunhofer.de/en |
| Innomed Medical Inc. | Large Industry | Hungary | www.innomed.hu/about_us |
| MedCom GmbH | Large Industry | Germany | www.medcom-online.de |
| Hungarian Association of Home Care and Hospice | SME | Hungary | |
| Philips | Large Industry | Netherlands | www.philips.com/global |
| Peverel | End User | UK | www.peverel.co.uk |
| User Interface Design GmbH | Large Industry | Germany | www.uid.com/en/home |
- Project name: Connected Care for Elderly Persons Suffering from Dementia (CCE)
- Website: http://www.cceproject.eu/
- Coordinator: Building Research Establishment Limited (BRE)
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.07.2009
- Total budget: € 3.000.000
- Public contribution: € 1.500.000
Objectives
The BEDMOND project aims at developing an ICT-based system for an early detection of Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative diseases, based on a behavioural change to approach and focused in elderly people while living at home in an Ambient Assisted Living environment. With such an early detection health professionals can later on apply an also early treatment which will help the elder to live longer in an independent way at home by delaying as long as possible Alzheimer’s disease appearance.
Expected results and impact
While scientists deepen into genetic associations for neurodegenerative diseases, health professionals are searching for tools for an early diagnostic so that they can early apply clinical test and pharmacological treatment to slow down the disease progression. Combining tele-assistance and smart home technologies (Ambient Assisted Living), BEDMOND platform provides the doctor with objective information about behavioural changes and MCI detection prior to the disease is patent. Some behavioural changes occurred while being at home – objectively detected, recognized and interpreted through health professional’s criteria – are periodically reported to the doctor. Then, this decision-making support system can help to start an early drug treatment.
Partners
Partners involved in the BEDMOND project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| TECNALIA Research and Innovation Foundation (formerly ROBOTIKER Foundation) | R&D | Spain | www.tecnalia.com |
| INGEMA Foundation | End user / R&D | Spain | www.ingema.es |
| IBERNEX Ingeniería, S.L. | SME | Spain | www.ibernex.es |
| AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH | R&D | Austria | www.ait.at |
| Center for Usability Research & Engineering GmBH (CURE) | R&D | Austria | www.cure.at |
| METICUBE, Software Engineering | SME | Portugal | www.meticube.com |
- Project name: BEHAVIOUR PATTERN BASED ASSISTANT FOR THE EARLY DETECTION AND MANAGEMENT OF NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES
- Website: http://www.bedmond.eu
- Coordinator: TECNALIA RESEARCH AND INNOVATION (Spain)
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.07.2009
- Total budget: € 2.379.179,20
- Public contribution: € 1.378.564,51