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
Objectives
VITAAL is an evidence-based solution for an effective, target-oriented training that promotes health and independence in older adults with i) cognitive deficits, ii) an increased fall risk or iii) people suffering from urinary incontinence. Even if several parameters of a gait analysis would be useful to determine the health status of a person – a comprehensive gait analysis cannot be offered on a larger scale so far. VITAAL bridges
the gap between analysis and intervention which, to this date, is unique: A gait analysis will help to assess the end-user and specific individualised interventions help achieving a higher quality of life in people with different conditions.
Expected results and impact
Target group of VITAAL is the general ageing population threatened to develop mobility related impairments of functioning. This project will be the first to use walking speed and variability measures of walking as vital signs for the identification of threats to the health status of older individuals. By linking a specific gait speed assessment to a personalised intervention, VITAAL is an effective tool to promote health status, independence and life quality in older adults.
Partners
Partners involved in the VITAAL project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dividat AG | SME | Switzerland | www.dividat.com |
| Associação Fraunhofer Portugal Research | R&D | Portugal | www.fraunhofer.pt |
| ETH Zürich | R&D | Switzerland | www.musec.ethz.ch |
| Université de Montreal | R&D | Canada | www.medecine.umontreal.ca |
| KU Leuven | End User | Belgium | www.upckuleuven.be |
| ProCare (Belgium) | SME | Belgium | www.procarebv.nl |
| Physio SPArtos | SME | Switzerland | www.physio-artos.ch |
- Project name: Using walking speed and variability assessment for personalised interventions on Geriatric Giants (VITAAL)
- Website: www.vitaal.fit
- Coordinator: Dividat AG
- Duration: 36 months
- Starting date: 01.05.2018
- Total budget: 2,36 mi €
- Public contribution: 1,6 mi €
Objectives
vINCI develops an integrated and validated evidence-based IoT framework to deliver non-intrusive monitoring and support for older adults to augment professional health care giving. It integrates proven open-data analytics with innovative user-driven IoT devices in four standardised kits. vINCI aims to assist caregivers and provide smart care for older adults at out-patients clinics and outdoors. To verify, test (clinical validation), and identify its added value, two multi-disciplinary controlled pilots (in Romania and Cyprus) and two open-call validations (in Poland and Slovenia) will be deployed.
Expected results and impact
The project outcomes can be divided at least in 3 major dimensions:
Medical, clinical and health direction as monitoring the sample older adults selected with the inclusion/exclusion criteria. Outcomes are the collected data from pilot study and field study during pre-test/post-test experimental designs. The data will be used to validate the path analysis and confirmatory analysis models to be used by the medical caregivers.
Interactive dimension with environment and people, as social insertion due to improving executing daily activities, low pressure on family and relatives due to minimum elderly assistance, personal increase of well-being, health, autonomy and sense of keeping normal abilities, decrease of pressure on country budget for social support.
ICT technical dimension – the platform will provide a pluggable framework for an integrated monitoring of several factors affecting QoL, including physical conditions, social life, and others. The data collected by the platform will be used to validate and correct QoL interventions, without any visible major intrusion in users’ life, specific to the requirements, level of education and understanding of the information, and individual needs.
Partners
Partners involved in the vINCI project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics | R&D | Romania | www.ici.ro |
| Marche Polytechnic University | R&D | Italy | www.univpm.it |
| University of Nicosia Research Foundation | R&D | Cyprus | www.unic.ac.cy |
| National Institute of Telecommunications | R&D | Poland | www.itl.waw.pl |
| Connected Medical Devices | SME | Romania | www.connected-medical.com |
| Automa Srl | SME | Italy | www.byautoma.com |
| OPTIMA Molliter (former Salvatelli Srl) | SME | Italy | www.molliter.com |
| National Institute of Gerontology and Geriatrics “Ana Aslan” | End User | Romania | www.anaaslanacademy.ro |
| Orange Polska S.A. | Large Industry | Poland | www.orange.pl |
| Comtrade Digital Services | Large Industry | Slovenia | www.comtradedigital.com |
- Project name: Clinically-validated INtegrated Support for Assistive Care and Lifestyle Improvement: the Human Link (vINCI)
- Website: http://vinci.ici.ro
- Coordinator: National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics (ICI Bucharest)
- Duration: 36 months
- Starting date: 01.06.2018
- Total budget: 1.267.189 €
- Public contribution: 872.673 €
Objectives
IOANNA offers an integrated solution that combines various services into one platform. It helps its (mainly senior) users feel safe to walk around the city, continue being active citizens by finding an interesting temporary job or community service opening, thus, boosting their self-confidence, keeping in the same time their care-takers relaxed that if something happens, they will get automatically notified. An easy-to-use and friendly interface will help seniors find the store they are looking for, a specific product in good price near their location or offers that they would otherwise miss.
Expected results and impact
The final product will be an online platform (web or smartphone/tablet application). The amount of users and their opinion of the platform will be a strong indication of whether the outcome will be successful. The use of IOANNA will be beneficial for the stores, as such we expect them to be among the regular end-users. Statistics of stores using the platform will offer an insight of the change in the market share with IOANNA’s use. We expect that senior adults will now be more confident to stay alone at home or go out and do the everyday activities that they used to do.
Partners
Partners involved in the IOANNA project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| GeoImaging Ltd | SME | Cyprus | www.geoimaging.com.cy |
| Ideable solutions, SL | SME | Spain | www.ideable.net |
| Ana Aslan International Foundation | End User | Romania | www.anaaslanacademy.ro |
| EasyLife | SME | Italy | |
| ESKILARA S. Koop. Txikia | SME | Spain | www.digitalsocial.eu |
| AGECARE (CYPRUS) LTD | End User | Cyprus | www.materia.com.cy |
| SingularLogic Romania Computer Application SRL | Large Industry | Romania | www.portal.singularlogic.eu |
- Project name: Integration Of All stores Network & Navigation Assistant
- Website: http://ioanna-project.eu/
- Coordinator: GeoImaging Ltd
- Duration: 30 months
- Starting date: 01.04.2018
- Total budget: 1.52 mi €
- Public contribution: 0.94 mi €
Objectives
The INCARE project is addressing the recognized need of integrative technological solutions for sustainable elderly care. Within INCARE, we will turn national and European funded projects into viable products by building on two successful solutions developed within previous AAL and European projects. Both NITICS, funded within the AAL 2012 call, and RAPP, funded 2013-2016 through the EC through the 7th Framework Programme FP7, were designed to support elderly people to live independently in their home environment and social circle. Read more about these projects at NITICS and RAPP.
Expected results and impact
INCARE is designed to support seniors to live independently and reduce or optimize the amount of care they require. The success of INCARE will be considered against qualitative and quantitative key performance indicators such as user satisfaction (no lower than 80%), acceptance rate 70-75%, reduced caregiver burden, etc. The INCARE solution is planned to reach the market in maximum 2 years after project completion. Our current business model deals with monthly service fees from the end-consumer for their in-use INCARE modules based on micropayment (e.g. 9.50 EUR per module, month and account).
Partners
Partners involved in the INCARE project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Centrul IT pentru Stiinta si Tehnologie | SME | Romania | www.citst.ro |
| ECLEXYS Sagl | SME | Switzerland | |
| University Politehnica of Bucharest | R&D | Romania | www.upb.ro |
| IZRIIS Institute for research, intergenerational relations, gerontology and ICT | End User | Slovenia | www.izriis.si |
| Warsaw University of Technology | R&D | Poland | www.robotyka.ia.pw.edu.pl |
| The Unit for Social Innovation and Research „Shipyard“ | End User | Poland | www.stocznia.org.pl |
| Bay Zoltán Nonprofit Ltd. for Applied Research | R&D | Hungary | www.bayzoltan.hu |
| Softic Ltd. | SME | Hungary | www.softic.hu |
- Project name: Integrated Solution for Innovative Elderly Care
- Website: www.aal-incare.eu
- Coordinator: S.C. Centrul IT pentru Stiinta si Tehnologie
- Duration: 36 months
- Starting date: 01.10.2018
- Total budget: 2,2 mi €
- Public contribution: 1,2 mi €
i-evAALution
The used technology of the bundle includes communication tools like voice recognition, tablet, a security system, a network-based solution to seek and receive neighborhood help, as well as a smart ...
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The overall objective of i-evAALution is to combine assistive technologies with modern consumer and communication products in order to support elderly persons in daily life. Therefore the technology bundle will be integrated and tested inside of 405 households divided among the participating countries (AT, NL, IT, SL). To support the everyday life of the persons, functionalities of the solutions are combined with each other. Test persons will receive support in many meaningful areas of daily life (comfort, security, social interaction, mobility).
Expected results and impact
- Design of a holistic ICT-based AAL bundle with positive business cases for potential payers and market players
- Tackle the interoperability and integration between single AAL solutions
- Integrate the preselected AAL solutions with widespread and fast-growing standard ICT-solutions as well as arising artificial intelligence based products and services for the consumer market
- Realize a long-term study to overcome the lack of statistical evidence
- New insights in needs of elderly persons in connection with technology and their surroundings
- Evidence on the socio-economic viability should provide arguments for policy-makers and public financers so that in the long-run lead all end-users have an easier access to AAL technologies.
Partners
Partners involved in the i-evAALution project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Innsbruck | R&D | Austria | www.uibk.ac.at |
| Eurac Research | R&D | Italy | www.eurac.edu |
| University of Ljubljana | R&D | Slovenia | www.uni-lj.si |
| Vilans - Centre of expertise for long-term care | End User | The Netherlands | www.vilans.nl |
| FAWO GmbH | SME | Austria | www.fawo.at |
| Johanniter Österreich | End User | Austria | www.johanniter.at |
| S.O.S. ONLUS Cooperativa Operatori Socio Canitari | End User | Italy | www.sosonlus.org |
| Eurotronik Kranj d.o.o. | SME | Slovenia | www.eurotronik.si |
| 2PCS Solutions GmbH | SME | Austria | www.2pcs-solutions.com |
| Mieelo & Alexander B.V. | SME | The Netherlands | www.mielooandalexander.com |
- Project name: i-evAALution – integrating and evaluating AAL solutions
- Website: http://www.i-evaalution.eu/
- Coordinator: University of Innsbruck, Department for Strategic Management, Marketing and Tourism
- Duration: 30 months
- Starting date: 01.04.2018
- Total budget: 3,04 mi €
- Public contribution: 1,9 mi €
Objectives
With help of Ella4Life, elderly people – healthy or with a chronic disease or mental condition – stay healthier and live a more pleasant life, independent and safe. At home on a tablet and ‘on the road’ on a smartphone or -watch. Ella will support and encourage people to adapt a healthy lifestyle. Users will be more self-supporting and independent of professional healthcare, what will result in cost reduction and effectiveness. Ella will improve the quality of life of users, the productivity of healthcare professionals and relieve informal caregivers by making it possible to monitor their loved ones from a distance.
Expected results and impact
We are convinced that Ella4Life will improve the quality of life of end-users as well as informal caregivers. When people get older, their chronic conditions often worsen, and at the same time, they get more problems handling the devices helping them manage their condition. This integration of systems makes it possible for end-users to keep on using their trusted equipment even when physical and cognitive limitations would otherwise make that very hard.
Besides the Improvement of the quality of life for end-users, Ella4Life also improves the quality of life for the informal caregivers. End-users can keep on using the trusted equipment and informal caregivers are reassured because they can follow everything from a distance and retain their normal life.
Partners
Partners involved in the Ella4Life project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virtual Assistant (Virtask) | SME | The Netherlands | www.virtask.nl |
| Medicine Men | SME | The Netherlands | www.medicinemen.eu |
| IHomeLab | R&D | Switzerland | www.ihomelab.ch |
| Insurance Company Zilveren Kruis | Large Industry | The Netherlands | www.zilverenkruis.nl |
| Livelife | End User | The Netherlands | www.livelife.nl |
| Gdansk University of Technology | R&D | Poland | www.pg.edu.pl |
| Ana Aslan International Foundation | End User | Romania | www.ana-aslan.ro |
| Vicino Luzern | End User | Switzerland | www.vicino-luzern.ch |
| Muflon Sp. Z.o.o. | End User | Poland | www.orw-muflon.com.pl |
- Project name: Ella4Life, your virtual personal assistant for home and on the road
- Website: www.ella4life.eu
- Coordinator: Virtual Assistant bv
- Duration: 36 months
- Starting date: 01.06.2018
- Total budget: 1,949386 mi €
- Public contribution: 1,265876 mi €
Living well
The project aim is to adapt and develop an existing ICT virtual assistant currently used by independent and autonomous older adults so that it (Anne) can benefit people with cognitive and other ...
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Dementia and Alzheimer’s means high health expenditures, and as a result, the current government policy focuses on helping older and affected people to live at home as long as possible. However, good and affordable support for those affected requires a complementary alternative to the current healthcare system. In this project, a personal virtual assistant (PVA) Anne is being developed to assist people with early and advanced dementia in everyday life by activating reminder (appointments, medication, nutrition), employment (games, music, news, etc.) and service functions (video call, home automation).
Expected results and impact
Anne will fundamentally improve the quality of life for everyone involved: with Anne, those affected stay longer independent and can stay longer at home. For caregivers Anne could become an assistant and a direct link between the professional caregivers, the patients and their informal caregivers and provide information on the state of the patient thus making for more efficient and effective care. A prototype has been tested with the elderly and showed that support with personal calendar management was highly valued. We expect Anne to reach domestic market in the middle of 2020.
Partners
Partners involved in the Living Well project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virtual Assistant BV (Virtask) | SME | The Netherlands | www.anne4care.nl |
| Windesheim University of Applied Sciences | R&D | The Netherlands | www.windesheim.com |
| De Parabool | End User | The Netherlands | www.deparabool.nl |
| National Instute of Health and Science on Aging | End User | Italy | www.inrca.it |
| iHomeLab, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences | R&D | Switzerland | www.hslu.ch |
| Switzerland Innovation Park Biel/Bienne AG | SME | Switzerland | www.sipbb.ch |
| Stëftung Hëllef Doheem | End User | Luxembourg | www.shd.lu |
- Project name: Living well with Anne
- Website: http://livingwellwithanne.eu/
- Coordinator: Virtual Assistant BV
- Duration: 36 months
- Starting date: 01.07.2017
- Total budget: 2,5 mi €
- Public contribution: 1,6 mi €
Active@Work
The Active@Work project addresses the development and deployment of a web based solution, centred at helping senior workers in their roles within the organisation, providing services to streamline ...
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The Active@Work project will result in a Virtual Assistant tool able to assist adult workers, in particular those close to retirement age, to continue executing their daily work or to continue active despite their age. It will be a multi-modal solution (e.g., PC, tablets or smartphones), capable of interacting with the end-user in a very natural and personalised way. The solution will incorporate an “intelligent agent” that will assist the user at accomplishing his/her work without compromising health and preventing any other risk derived from fatigue or stress at work.
Expected results and impact
(1) The capability of detecting and monitor a set of bio-parameters through the use of multi-sensor wearable devices (2) A cognitive system capable of interpreting the conditions of the work environment and a catalogue of services to assist them in their daily work (3) State-of-the-art collaborative platform for interactions and share of experiences between older and younger employees .(4) Senior workers will exercise and raise their cognitive skills or recover their skill levels within a training environment. (5) The solution will be tested in two distinct pilots first pilot being deployed under the orientation of a medical clinic the second pilot in a multinational consulting company
Partners
Partners involved in the Active@Work project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| ATOS | Large Industry | SPAIN | www.atos.net |
| INOV INESC INOVACAO - INSTITUTO DE NOVAS TECNOLOGIAS | R&D | PORTUGAL | www.inov.pt |
| HEART LINK ONLINE N.V. | SME | BELGIUM | www.heart-link-online-halo.be |
| Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. | R&D | GERMANY | www.fraunhofer.de |
| University of St. Gallen | R&D | SWITZERLAND | www.unisg.ch |
| Multisector Norte – Innovation Consulting , Lda. | SME | PORTUGAL | www.multisector.pt |
| BodyTel Europe GmbH | SME | GERMANY | www.bodytel.com |
| Beltz Medical Klinik GmbH | SME | GERMANY | www.diagnostikklinik.com |
- Project name: Active Older Adults@Workplace
- Website: http://www.activeatwork.eu
- Coordinator: ATOS
- Duration: 30 Months
- Starting Date: 01.06.2014
- Total budget: € 3.024.127
- Public contribution: € 1.876.727
Contact
Blanca Jordan
Rosana Valle Soriano
T.: +34625599312
Trans Safe
Trans.Safe resorts to environmental monitoring, physiological monitoring and movement monitoring. The physiological data gathering system delivers heterogeneous sensor data both in the time domain ...
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In Trans.Safe, a system will be developed to support senior workers who can and wish to stay actively longer in a job position with a high personal and public safety risks. The focus is especially on physically and psychologically demanding working places in the transportation sector with high physiological stress potential (truck drivers, train drivers, control room personnel etc.). Trans.Safe will support companies in finding ways to keep their experienced personnel motivated, fit and on duty while at the same time guarantee their personal and the public, safety on the background of the demographic change.
Expected results and impact
Trans.Safe will provide a solution to reliably measure work-load, inform the employees and actively provide countermeasures. This system will be specially tailored for senior employees in the transportation sector and in domains with similar safety and risk environments. The solution creates a new kind of product which brings new service opportunities for the business partners of the consortium, employees (e.g. improved perceived health), employers (e.g. better staff management) and society (higher public safety, economies for the social security systems, macro-economic benefits).
Partners
Partners involved in the Trans.Safe project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts – Engineering & Architecture, CEESAR-iHomeLab | R&D | Switzerland | www.hslu.ch |
| Youse GmbH | SME | Germany | www.youse.de |
| Telecom Italia S.p.A. | Large Industry | Italy | www.telecomitalia.com/tit/en.html |
| VAG Verkehrs-AG Nürnberg | End User | Germany | www.vag.de |
| MAN Truck & Bus AG | Large Industry | Germany | www.mantruckandbus.com |
| Scuola Superiore Sant' Anna | R&D | Italy | sssa.bioroboticsinstitute.it |
| konplan systemhaus ag | SME | Switzerland | www.konplan.com |
| Design LED Products Ltd | SME | United Kingdom | www.designledproducts.com |
- Project name: AmbienT Response to Avoid Negative Stress and enhance SAFEty: Trans.Safe
- Website: www.TransSafe.eu
- Coordinator: Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts – Engineering & Architecture, CEESAR-iHomeLab
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.07.2014
- Total budget: € 3.550.378
- Public contribution: € 1.981.680