Objectives
The Fit4Work project will develop an innovative easy-to-use and unobtrusive system that will support older workers in reducing and managing physical and mental stress resulting from their occupation. The system will provide ambient ways of monitoring physical and mental activities at work. Smart algorithms will provide context-sensitive personalised recommendations for adjusting the workplace and behaviour at work, as well as define mid- and long-term lifestyle plans to meet the demands of the work taking into consideration the worker’s age.
Expected results and impact
Through its unobtrusive and unique integration of advanced software and hardware components, the Fit4Work system will enable persons aged 55 and over to be healthy and maintain good functional capacities for work. In this way the project answers the need to facilitate continuation of professional careers, making ageing workers aware of possibilities of better transition into ‘golden years’ of their work span and prepare enterprises to develop their work environments with age-related issues incorporated into the frame of their business.
Partners
Partners involved in the Fit4Work project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center | R&D | Poland | www.psnc.pl |
| Eugeniusz Piasecki University School of Physical Education in Poznań | R&D | Poland | www.awf.poznan.pl |
| Jožef Stefan Institute | R&D | Slovenia | www.ijs.si |
| UnieKBO | End User | The Netherlands | www.uniekbo.nl |
| SGS Tecnos S.A. | Large Industry | Spain | www.sgs.es |
| SC Teamnet International SA | Large Industry | Romania | www.teamnet.ro |
| Other Side Mirror S.L. | SME | Spain | www.othersidemirror.com |
- Project name: Self-management of physical and mental fitness of older workers
- Website: www.fit4work-aal.eu
- Coordinator: Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.06.2014
- Total budget: € 2.639.826,80
- Public contribution: € 1.910.850,50
Objectives
Wellbeing offers a holistic web-based platform, combining physical training, workplace ergonomics, nutritional balance and stress management in order to ensure a healthy life style at the workplace, especially focusing on the needs of older adults. Since older adults are working in very diverse fields, the project focuses on the main thing they all have in common in order to reach a broad target group: performing their job in a sitting position for a longer period of time. Hence the project supports e.g. secretaries, office clerks, technicians, lawyers at the same level and can be extended to new target groups easily.
Expected results and impact
The system will improve the quality of life of the end-users (older employees/white-collar-workers) in a twofold manner: 1) the system increases physical and cognitive fitness, which improves the employability in older age and counteract occupational age discrimination as well as early retirement; and 2) wellbeing motivates participants to change their lifestyles to healthier and more conscious ways of life, which improves physical mobility, agility, stress resistance and overall health status. Due to fostering a healthier lifestyle, wellbeing contributes to reduce the pension expenses.
Partners
Partners involved in the wellbeing project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| CogVis Software und Consulting GmbH | SME | Austria | www.cogvis.at |
| Vienna University of Technology | R&D | Austria | www.caa.tuwien.ac.at/cvl |
| AIMC Advanced Information Management Consulting GmbH | SME | Austria | www.aimc.at |
| Fitbase Institut für Online Prävention GmbH | SME | Germany | www.fitbase.de |
| Stichting Smart Homes | R&D | The Netherlands | www.smart-homes.nl |
| Intrarom SA | End User | Romania | www.intrarom.ro |
| Ingeniería y Soluciones Informáticas S.L. | SME | Spain | www.isoin.es |
| University of Vienna, Department of Sociology | End User | Austria | www.soz.univie.ac.at |
- Project name: Optimizing the Workplace of ELderly Laborers: BE IN Good health! (wellbeing)
- Website: www.wellbeing-project.eu
- Coordinator: CogVis Software und Consulting GmbH
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.06.2014
- Total budget: € 2.500.000
- Public contribution: € 1.600.000
Objectives
The main goal of the Clockwork project is to create a healthy and comfortable environment by supporting middle-aged to older adults in the improvement of their circadian rhythms. Particularly, the solution will target shift workers, such as healthcare professionals, who are greatly affected by chronodisruption, which can lead to health issues, long absences or early retirement. The objective will be achieved through the enhancement of external synchronisers that will help users maintain a healthy day and night rhythm by introducing some imperceptible modifications in their environment.
Expected results and impact
- Identification of relevant chronodisruptors and parameters involved in their monitoring.
- Portable Zeitgeber device.
- Processing algorithms, including decision engine for various modes, signal processing and rule engine for situation interpretation.
- Electronic hardware, incorporating signal processing and AI engines.
- Intelligent, auto-regulated lighting device.
Partners
Partners involved in the Clockwork project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fraunhofer Portugal AICOS | R&D | Portugal | www.fraunhofer.pt |
| BCB Informática y Control SL | SME | Spain | www.bcb.es |
| Università degli Studi di Ferrara | R&D | Italy | http://www.unife.it |
| KOHS PIMEX | SME | Austria | www.pimex.at |
| Portugal Telecom Comunicações | Large Industry | Portugal | www.telecom.pt |
| Ab.Acus Srl | SME | Italy | www.ab-acus.com |
| Grado Zero Espace | SME | Italy | www.gzespace.com |
| RK Tech, Kft | SME | Hungary | www.rktech.hu |
- Project name: Smart system for the management and control of shift workers’ circadian rhythms
- Website: www.clockworkproject.eu
- Coordinator: Fraunhofer Portugal AICOS
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 02.06.2014
- Total budget: € 1.643.367,97
- Public contribution: € 959.171,00
healthy@Work
The healthy@work project will apply state of the art development processes. The envisioned system consists of mobile and server based software components and will be complemented by different ...
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healthy@work wants to increase occupational health maintenance and well-being especially for older care giving professionals and office workers. The project helps to establish healthier behaviours in occupation and at home. It addresses the often-experienced gap between just knowing what would be good for your body and mind and actually starting to change your daily behaviour. The personalised adaptive workplace health promotion programme (healthy@work) is a mobile application platform and associated infrastructure that promotes healthy behaviour through small daily inputs, activities and monitoring.
Expected results and impact
The healthy@work project will apply state of the art development processes. The envisioned system consists of mobile and server based software components and will be complemented by different mobile, wearable and fixed sensor-systems. The mobile part of the system has to ensure that health-related activity data can be collected by using sensors which are integrated into smartphones (e.g. accelerometer, GPS, WLAN) or can be used or triggered by smartphones in conjunction with temporarily attached components within the building (e.g. NFC or QR-code) or on the body (wearable sensors).
End-users will be involved in Switzerland and United Kingdom through our local consortium partners CURAVIVA and Bournemouth Borough Council. End-users are involved in the requirement phase and the organization can act as a showcase enterprise that will implement a growing healthy@work programme during the different field trial iterations.
Partners
Partners involved in the healthy@work project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| YouPers AG | SME | Switzerland | www.youpers.ch |
| Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts – Engineering & Architecture CEESAR - iHomeLab | R&D | Switzerland | www.iHomeLab.ch |
| Romus | SME | Switzerland | www.romus.ch |
| u-sentric | SME | Belgium | www.u-sentric.com |
| XIM Ltd. | SME | United Kingdom | www.xim.co.uk |
| Bournemouth Borough Council | End User | United Kingdom | www.bournemouth.gov.uk |
| CURAVIVA | End User | Switzerland | www.curaviva.ch |
- Project name: healthy@work
- Website: www.youpers.ch
- Coordinator: YouPers AG
- Duration: 24 Months
- Starting Date: 01.04.2014
- Total budget: € 2.277.571
- Public contribution: € 1.179.069
Objectives
The project brings together 3 universities and 5 companies active and experienced in R&D of assistive devices to specify the full-body personal mobility, reaching, and grasping requirements of elderly persons allowing them to continue managing their daily activities related to voluntary occupation (maintaining gardens or carrying groceries of more needy people) , as well as participating in local social activities while preserving their health and providing motivation to remain active and independent. Basic products comprising upper-, lower- and full-body assistive exoskeletons will be designed, developed, and validated.
Expected results and impact
The AXO-SUIT integrates recent advances in assistive technology to study and design exoskeletons and to meet the challenges in helping elderly workers. The results will include novel exoskeletons consisting of modules to allow integration to realise prototype upper-, lower- and full-body assistive suits. They will comprehensively supplement the strength of elderly persons with effective and affordable exoskeletons and improve directly their quality of life. The exoskeletons could also be extended to more aged persons, weak or disabled adults, or elder employees as their needs are similar.
Partners
Partners involved in the AXO-SUIT project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aalborg University | End User | Denmark | www.aau.dk |
| University of Gävle | End User | Sweden | www.hig.se |
| University of Limerick | R&D | Ireland | www.ul.ie |
| Welldana A/S | End User | Denmark | www.welldana-innocare.com |
| Bioservo Technologies AB | Large Industry | Sweden | www.bioservo.se |
| MTD Precision Engineering Ltd | SME | Ireland | www.tooling.ie |
| COMmeto bvba | SME | Belgium | www.commeto.be |
| Hjälpmedelsteknik Sverige | End user | Sweden | www.hjalpmedelsteknik.se |
- Project name: Assistive exoskeleton suitable for elderly persons / AXO-SUIT
- Website: www.axo-suit.eu
- Coordinator: Aalborg University, Denmark
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.10.2014
- Total budget: € 2.788.762
- Public contribution: € 1.641.470
Objectives
The AHEAD project aims at increasing the quality of life of elderly by assisting them for keeping an active and independent life. Physical and cognitive condition all decrease as a person is getting older. To improve quality of life of elderly, the project make use of devices that elderly people have already adopted: eyeglasses and hearing aid. The integration and combination of advanced and innovative sensing as well as ICT based modules will result in supporting system for improving daily life and health condition.
Expected results and impact
Hearing impairment constitutes an additional handicap to the natural process of aging that has a very negative impact in the quality of life, having a great impact in the human communication process, leading to isolation and sometimes to depression. Expected provided services will help elderly end users to life more independently, helping them in gaining confidence and supporting healthy life, and most important facilitating communication with other humans. Social, health and economic impact is ensured once the project achieve technological and user acceptance challenges.
Partners
Partners involved in the AHEAD project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atos | Large Industry | Spain | www.atosresearch.eu |
| Tecnalia | R&D | Spain | www.tecnalia.com |
| Innovationsmanufaktur | SME | Germany | www.holistic-innovation.org |
| Center for Usability Research and Engineering | R&D | Austria | www.cure.at |
| Johanniter | End User | Austria | www.johanniter.at |
| Cosinuss | SME | Germany | www.cosinuss.com |
| AuditData | SME | Denmark | www.auditdata.com |
| Bruckhoff | R&D | Germany | www.bruckhoff.com/en/start |
| Forschungszentrum Informatik an der Universität Karlsruhe | SME | Germany | www.fzi.de/en |
- Project name: Augmented Hearing Experience and Assistance for Daily life
- Website: www.ahead-project.eu
- Coordinator: Augmented Hearing Experience and Assistance for Daily life
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.07.2013
- Total budget: € 3.843.436
- Public contribution: € 2.096.609
HELICOPTER
Bad life habits play a major role in developing and progression of age-related diseases: nutrition, medical therapies and physical exercise are among the keys for prevention and control. Regular ...
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The HELICOPTER proposal aims at exploiting ambient-assisted living techniques to provide older adults and their informal caregivers with support, motivation and guidance in pursuing a healthy and safe lifestyle. The proposal is targeted at 65+ adults, not suffering from major chronic diseases or severe disabilities, yet possibly being affected by (or being at risk of) metabolic or circulatory malfunctioning (e.g., hypertension, mild diabetes) or by mild cognitive deficits. Behavioural analysis is exploited to make health monitoring more effective and less invasive.
Expected results and impact
A heterogeneous sensor network will be designed and implemented, including environmental, wearable and clinical sensors. A global monitoring framework will be developed, in which all data converge toward a common database feeding a data analysis engine, capable of inferring from logged data current activity and behavioural information.
The inference model will involve medical knowledge as well as suitable “big data” analysis techniques. The HELICOPTER environment will be deployed and tested at several pilot sites, located in Sweden and in The Netherlands, for a 18 months period.
Partners
Partners involved in the HELICOPTER project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Me.Te.Da. S.r.l. | SME | Italy | www.meteda.it |
| Università degli Studi di Parma | R&D | Italy | www.unipr.it |
| SC Vision Systems SRL | SME | Romania | www.vision-systems.ro |
| University of Skövde | R&D | Sweden | www.his.se |
| Laboratorio delle Idee S.r.l. | SME | Italy | www.labidee.com |
| Municipality of Skövde | End User | Sweden | www.skovde.se |
| Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design | SME | Denmark | www.ciid.dk |
| Coöperatie Slimmer Leven 2020 | End User | The Netherlands | www.slimmerleven2020.org |
| International Business School, Jönköping University | R&D | Sweden | hj.se/jibs |
- Project name: Healthy Life support through Comprehensive Tracking of individual and Environmental Behaviors
- Website: www.helicopter-aal.eu
- Coordinator: Me.Te.Da. S.r.l.
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.07.2013
- Total budget: € 2.880.010,00
- Public contribution: € 1.655.905,00
Contact
Sandro Girolami, MeTeDa Srl
T.: +39 347 3572118
Paolo Ciampolini, University of Parma
T.: +39 0521 905828, +39 334 6669195,
Objectives
Collected data enables the system to track variations in the daily activities over time in order to detect the right time to provide a recommendation. This allows for timely access to quantitative data from the user and allows the activation of individual and social recommendations. The offered recommendations can be in the form of suggesting individual activities at home, such as preparing meals or social interactions with peers.
Expected results and impact
The goals of the project are in line with the goals of the end-user organisations. Each organisation is expected to agree on an expected outcome with their end-users and work with them to achieve this. The ideal goal is that the individual end-user will develop an increased personal confidence and competency from using the system and recognise it as a user-friendly and easy-to-use technology device with flexible features. It is expected that end-user organisations working on the project will continue to suggest features that can further enhance the service.
Partners
Partners involved in the SONOPA project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Docobo | R&D | United Kingdom | www.docobo.co.uk |
| Saxion University of Applied Sciences | R&D | The Netherlands | www.saxion.edu |
| Smart Signs | R&D | The Netherlands | www.smartsigns.nl |
| University of Deusto | SME | Spain | www.deusto.es |
| SpringTechno | SME | Germany | www.springtechno.com |
| Blue Danube Robotic | SME | Austria | bluedanuberobotics.com |
| E-seniors | SME | France | www.e-seniors.asso.fr |
| Camera-Contact | R&D | France | http://camera-contact.com |
| The Christelijke Mutualiteit | SME / End User | Belgium | www.cm.be |
| iMinds/Ghent University | SME | Belgium | http://www.iminds.be |
- Project name: SOcial Networks for Older adults to Promote an Active Life (SONOPA)
- Website: www.sonopa.eu
- Coordinator: Docobo Limited
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.05.2013
- Total budget: € 3.238.818,93
- Public contribution: € 1.444.061,22
Objectives
The purpose of the project is to relieve informal caregivers through the use of information and communication technology.
The objectives are :
- A developed and evaluated platform for informal caregivers in ambient assisted living.
- An exploitation plan for the dissemination of the results.
Expected results and impact
The expected results is a platform for the delivery of self-care @ home services , as well as for stimulating and supporting daily activities at home by means of technologies that include smart sensing environments integrated with adaptable information system to connect elderly people with informal carers.
The SALIG++ product will be sold as individual licenses to elderly and informal caregivers, or as group licenses to care funders and formal caregivers. SALIG++ will primarily be paid by care funders. The market size is approximately 50 million people in need that will grow to about 75 million (2050).
Partners
Partners involved in the SALIG++ project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stockholm University | R&D | Sweden | www.su.se |
| Divitel BV | SME | The Netherlands | www.divitel.com |
| Almende BV | SME | The Netherlands | www.almende.com |
| HI Iberia | SME | Spain | www.hi-iberia.es |
| TU Delft | R&D | The Netherlands | www.tudelft.nl |
| Stockholm LänsLandsting | End User | Sweden | www.sll.se |
| Actimage | SME | Luxembourg | www.actimage.fr |
| PIAP | R&D | Poland | www.piap.pl |
- Project name: Smart Assisted Living involving Informal careGivers
- Website: www.salig.eu
- Coordinator: Stockholm University, Sweden
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.06.2014
- Total budget: € 4.175.433,00
- Public contribution: € 2.494.421,00
Care4Balance
This always-on intelligent dashboard will be used to show status information and will enable communication and coordination towards the professional and the informal caregiver. The information to ...
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C4B will do on-demand and multi-stakeholder service design based on intelligent dashboard systems representing the status & context of the actors involved. The intelligent dashboard is an always-on interactive device that is easy to use for older adults. The system envisages improved and sustainable care provision by informal caregivers, optimized cooperation with formal caregivers and QoL improvement for the older adult. Better communication and cooperation in-between formal and informal caregivers are envisaged. C4B will support task delegation and community based care.
Expected results and impact
Realise and test a flexible and easy to use system that will support the elderly to interact with his/her support circle. Task overview, task delegation, care offerings and supporting intelligence captured through sensor networks will empower all actors involved. Co-creation and interoperability with other networks and services will leverage the go-to-market. The C4B project will test several business scenarios in order to come up with sustainable models for market introduction after the project finalisation in the four involved countries.
Partners
Partners involved in the Care4Balance project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| iMinds | R&D | Belgium | www.iminds.be |
| Televic Healthcare | Large Industry | Belgium | www.televic-healthcare.com |
| connectedcare | SME | The Netherlands | www.connectedcare.nl |
| Hogeschool Amsterdam | R&D | The Netherlands | www.hva.nl |
| Van Dorp Zorg en Welzijn | Large Industry | The Netherlands | www.vandorpzorgenwelzijn.nl |
| AMSTA | End User | The Netherlands | www.amsta.nl |
| Alcatel-Lucent Bell N.V | Large Industry | Belgium | www.Alcatel-Lucent.be |
| Pervaya | SME | France | www.pervaya.com |
| VigiSense | Large Industry | Switzerland | www.vigisense.com |
| Hochschule Luzern – iHomeLab | R&D | Switzerland | www.iHomeLab.ch |
- Project name: Care4Balance – Care for balancing informal care delivery through on-demand and multi-stakeholder service design
- Website: www.aal-care4balance.eu
- Coordinator: iMinds
- Duration: 30 Months
- Starting Date: 01.03.2013
- Total budget: € 2.380.199
- Public contribution: € 1.532.042