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
Objectives
ICT-based services aimed at supporting safety, autonomy and effectiveness of feeding daily activities are proposed, either home-based (in the kitchen environment) and internet-based. Simple services deals with the kitchen safety management, whereas more articulated ones will fully exploit networking among devices (remote operation features) and among people (social-oriented applications). User-centred design strategies are exploited to ensure service usability and trustworthiness, user’s reward and satisfaction. Designed features will enter the mainstream production line of a large enterprise.
Expected results and impact
Smart appliances, including network connectivity features, will be designed and produced: AAL features will be accounted for into mainstream industry production, fulfilling “design for all” prescriptions. The whole industrial design cycle will be carried out within the project, leading to fully certified, ready-to-market devices. Services supporting independent and rewarding kitchen activities will be made available and tested on a 18 month pilot phase, in 3 European countries. Users and market perspectives will be assessed through evaluation tools, also exploited for iterative trimming of devised solutions.
Partners
Partners involved in the FOOD project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| INDESIT Company SpA | Large Industry | Italy | www.indesitcompany.com |
| ANMIL | End User | Italy | www.anmil.it |
| Brainport Development N.V. | End User | Netherlands | www.brainport.nl |
| Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design | SME | Denmark | ciid.dk |
| Department Of Social Services, Local Council Brasov | End User | Romania | www.brasovcity.ro |
| International Business School, Jönköping University | SME | Sweden | www.jibs.se |
| Consiglio Nazionale della Ricerca | R&D | Italy | www.ifac.cnr.it |
| Università degli Studi di Parma, Centro di Collaborazione sulle Tecnologie Assistive | R&D | Italy | www.unipr.it |
| SC Vision Systems SRL | R&D | Romania | www.vision-systems.ro |
- Project name: Framework for Optimizing the prOcess of FeeDing – FOOD
- Website: www.food-aal.eu
- Coordinator: Indesit Company SPA
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.09.2012
- Total budget: € 3.232.865,99
- Public contribution: € 1.616.337,00
Contact
Leonardo Arteconi
E.: leonardo.arteconi@indesit.com
T.: +39 0732 663999
Paolo Ciampolini
T.: +39 0521 905828, +39 334 6669195
Objectives
TRAINUTRI AALs project aims to raise consciousness about self wellness, enabling the exchange of knowledge related to physical and nutritional healthy habits. The project will help people (seniors between 50 and 65 years from both sex) to develop healthy habits (keeping them physically active and actively involved into their health maintenance) and will enable people to share and exchange healthy habits related activities, experiences and knowledge allowing them to keep and enrich their social relationships while they age in their preferred environments.
Expected results and impact
The improvement of the quality of life of elderly people is the main objective of this project, as the basis of the project are helping senior to make personalised exercise.
There are also indirect contributions, like the ones derived from the social inclusion, and interaction between people.
Keeping strong and reliable social bonds is essential for maintaining a good quality of life. Elderly will be empowered and remain active in the provision of their health and general well-being.
Partners
Partners involved in the TRAINUTRI project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Planet Media | SME | Spain | www.planetmedia.es |
| UPM | R&D | Spain | www.gbt.tfo.upm.es |
| MobiHealth | SME | Netherlands | www.mobihealth.com |
| University of Geneva | R&D | Switzerland | http://asg.unige.ch |
| KMOP | End User | Greece | www.kmop.gr |
| UC3M-CAOS | R&D | Spain | www.caos.inf.uc3m.es |
| ArxIT SA | SME | Switzerland | www.arxit.ch |
| Vigisense SA | SME | Switzerland | www.vigisense.com |
- Project name: TRAINing and NUTRItion senior social platform
- Website: www.planetmedia.es
- Coordinator: Planet Media Studios SL.
- Duration: 24 Months
- Starting Date: 01.05.2010
- Total budget: € 3.416.850,20
- Public contribution: € 1.758.830
SILVER GAME
The envisioned platform is conceived as an integrated solution which combines sensor-controlled serious gaming, web-based information services and interactive entertainment and which brings ...
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Silvergame is a multimedia platform, which is to host a variety of game-based applications, community features and web-based services specifically designed to cater to the needs of elderly people. The project focuses on activities like singing, dancing and driving to activate senior citizens and encourage social interaction among them. The idea is to take advantage of information and communications technologies to contribute to the physical and mental well-being of elderly people.
Expected results and impact
Silvergame offers new options for interaction and communication by bringing into play the same mechanisms that have contributed to the success of the web-based social media and network gaming – success stories that have been developing with hardly any participation at all of the elderly people.
The expected result is an established technological platform with three ready-to-use applications catering to the aforementioned goals – and flexible enough to take on additional applications as plug-ins to add more functionalities in the future.
Partners
Partners involved in the Silvergame project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Exozet Berlin GmbH (Coordinator) | SME | Germany | www.exozet.com |
| AIT Austrian Institute of Technology | R&D | Austria | www.ait.ac.at |
| Audio Riders Oy | SME | Finland | www.audioriders.fi |
| Fraunhofer FIRST | R&D | Germany | www.first.fraunhofer.de |
| Golden Oldies / Grenville Jones | End User | United Kingdom | www.golden-oldies.org.uk |
| Reha-Zentrum Lübben | End User | Germany | www.rehazentrum.com |
- Project name: SilverGame: A platform for serious gaming to foster the social inclusion of elderly people
- Website: www.silvergame.eu
- Coordinator: Exozet Berlin GmbH, Berit Hanold
- Duration: 26 Months
- Starting Date: 01.05.2010
- Total budget: € 2.777.061
- Public contribution: € 1.862.012
Contact
Berit Hanold
E.: berit.hanold@exozet.com
T.: 0049 (30) 2465600
Objectives
The aim of Ageing in Balance (AiB) project is to develop a new solution for preventing the falls of the older adults, which would reduce the costs produced by the falls and increase the quality of life of the older people. The solution will include two aspects: assessing the fall risk and preventing the falls. The fall risk assessment tools will include full-scale professional assessments and also short assessments, which can be used for self-assessments or by care professionals. The prevention tools will consist of physical and cognitive exercises and also environmental guidance.
Expected results and impact
The result of the project will include technologies for fall risk assessment; tools for professional use and self-assessment –tools for older users, and fall prevention software for older users to motivate behaviour change. Preventing the majority of falls would save a lot of money and improve and prolong the good quality of life of ageing adults.
Falls, especially among the elderly, result in high costs for care and rehabilitation for the western type of societies.
Partners
Partners involved in the AiB project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland | R&D | Finland | www.vtt.fi |
| Four Computing | SME | Finland | www.fourcomp.com |
| Alkit Communications | SME | Sweden | www.alkit.se |
| Hospital La Fuenfria | End user | Spain | www.madrid.org |
- Project name: Ageing in Balance
- Website: http://aib.vtt.fi
- Coordinator: VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.03.2012
- Total budget: € 1.478.093
- Public contribution: € 826.147
Contact
Milla Immonen
E.: milla.immonen@vtt.fi
T.: +358 20 722 2168
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
Objectives
The objective of ALMA is to provide a modular, low-cost, integrated system to support autonomous mobility and orientation for the elder and, more in general, for the person with cognitive and/or mobility impairments. ALMA will develop a set of modules that can work in isolation or in cooperation, for: localisation, tracking, path planning and navigation, service search and scheduling, autonomous wheelchair mobility, and interfacing with the user.
Expected results and impact
The project will results in a set of modules for navigation, localisation, planning, monitoring, and interfacing, that can be assembled and configured according to different needs, budgets, and available resources. The ALMA modules/system will target a number of different scenarios, ranging from the individual use in domestic environments to the multiple and collective use in large care- and assistance-giving facilities, where they can be conveniently integrated with existing hw/sw technologies.
Partners
Partners involved in the ALMA project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scuola Universitaria Professionale della Svizzera Italiana (SUPSI) | R&D | Switzerland | www.supsi.ch |
| Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione | R&D | Italy | www.polimi.it |
| Info Solution SpA | SME | Italy | www.infosolution.it |
| VCA Technology Ltd. | SME | United Kingdom | www.vcatechnology.com |
| Istituti Sociali di Chiasso | End User | Switzerland | www.chiasso.ch |
| Clinica Hildebrand | End User | Switzerland | www.clinica-hildebrand.ch |
| University of Wurzburg, Department of Criminal Law, Criminal Justice, Legal Theory, Information and Computer Science Law | R&D | Germany | www.uni-wuerzburg.de |
| Degonda Rehab SA | SME | Switzerland | www.degonda.ch |
- Project name: ALMA: Ageing without Losing Mobility and Autonomy
- Website: http://www.alma-aal.org/
- Coordinator: Scuola Universitaria Professionale della Svizzera Italiana (SUPSI)
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 02.04.2013
- Total budget: € 2.997.526
- Public contribution: € 1.435.220
Contact
Gianni Di Caro
E.: gianni@idsia.ch
T.: +41 76 2203264
Objectives
The proposal aims at enabling integral outdoor and indoor localisation and mobility services for elderly people with age-related sensory (visual, auditory) and cognitive (memory) impairments that help them in their daily routine activities far from home. Special attention will be given to key activities for their autonomous living (e.g. shopping, banking) and with a particular societal benefit (e.g. accompanying grandchildren); procuring active and convenient engagement of all relevant stakeholders (relatives, health-social-security services, establishments).
Expected results and impact
The aim to create an open platform in E-MOSION highlights the need and wish of the consortium to be compatible to or even better reuse other open AAL platforms, such as universAAL. As AIT is partner in universAAL there will be the possibility for a close collaboration and thus the chance to enable a European AAL ecosystem for the creation of market solutions. E-MOSION offers a suite of services delivered in an innovative business model that offers an unprecedented value proposition. Exploitation and utilisation is possible on two fronts – businesses and primary users.
Partners
Partners involved in the E-MOSION project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| INTEGRASYS | SME | Spain | www.integrasys-sa.com |
| AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH | R&D | Austria | www.ait.ac.at |
| Noldus Information Technology BV | SME | Netherlands | www.noldus.com |
| INERTIA Technology | SME | Netherlands | inertia-technology.com |
| MATTERSOFT | SME | Finland | www.mattersoft.fi |
| Unie KBO | End User | Netherlands | www.uniekbo.nl |
- Project name: E-MOSION: Elderly friendly MObility Services for Indoor and Outdoor sceNarios
- Website: www.emosion-project.eu
- Coordinator: Integrasys S.A. (Spain)
- Duration: 30 Months
- Starting Date: 01.07.2012
- Total budget: € 2.413.672,80
- Public contribution: € 1.538.170,00
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
GUIDING LIGHT
Light is used to meet visual needs of human (e.g. highlighting risks of falling), is applied for temporal orientation throughout the day (e.g. emphasising day-night rhythm), for spatial navigation ...
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Within this project we will develop and implement an intelligent light wayguidance system, which should attenuate age-related mobility impairments caused by reduced spatio-temporal orientation, worry about getting lost, and fear of falling. This guiding light will consist of up to date lighting technologies, innovative intelligent control algorithms, smart mobility monitoring systems, and a distributed information system for mobility parameters. Together with end-users and all stakeholders we will examine how these components can be combined with inter-personal care services.
Expected results and impact
Outcome of the project is an intelligent light wayguidance system consisting a variable set of flexible modules that work together with other heterogeneous home automation systems, information and communication systems as seamlessly as possible. The application of this guiding light system will support the spatial-temporal orientation of older people and thus sustain their mobility as long as possible.
Partners
Partners involved in the Guiding Light project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fachhochschule Vorarlberg | R&D | Austria | www.fhv.at |
| Tridonic GmbH & Co KG | SME | Austria | www.tridonic.com |
| Bartenbach Lichtlabor GmbH | SME | Austria | www.bartenbach.com |
| myVitali AG | SME | Switzerland | www.myvitali.com |
| apollis - Institut für Sozialforschung und Demoskopie O.H.G | SME | Italy | www.apollis.it |
| YOUSE GmbH | SME | Germany | www.youse.de |
- Project name: Ambient Light Guiding System for the Mobility Support of Elderly People, Guiding Light
- Website: www.guiding-light.labs.fhv.at
- Coordinator: University of Applied Sciences Vorarlberg, Austria
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.05.2012
- Total budget: 2.850.159 €
- Public contribution: 1.565.000 €
Contact
Prof. Dr. Guido Kempter
E.: guido.kempter@fhv.at
T.: +43 5572 792 7300