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PHArA-ON project will maximise the use of advanced services, devices, and tools from IoT, artificial intelligence and robotics to cloud computing, smart wearables, Big Data and intelligent analytics. Its aim is to create a set of integrated and highly customisable interoperable open platforms. Platform interoperability will be implemented within Pharaon ecosystems and platforms, which will be validated in two stages: pre-validation and large-scale pilots (LSPs) conducted at pilot sites in Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia and Spain (Murcia and Andalusia).
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PROGRESSIVE (H2020 CSA) was looking at how standards for ICT based products and services can help to meet the needs and preferences of older people and respond to the challenges and opportunities arising from an ageing population, so that everyone can enjoy healthy lives. PROGRESSIVE accompanied standardisers, policy makers, manufacturers, service providers, and European citizens by helping them adopt new approaches to standards development in the field of ICT for ageing well. A standards database is available at: https://progressivestandards.org/standards
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Living lab project for testing gerontechnologies with older adults. A categorization of 150 companies active in this field is available (airtable dataset, accessible upon request).
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The aim of the project is to improve the sleep of residents with cognitive impairments (e.g. dementia) at nursing homes in a cross Nordic collaboration. The objectives are - to adjust an existing sensor to monitoring residents' sleep and provide an alarm that complies safety requirements and personal data, - to get a tool that objectively can evaluate efforts to improve residents' sleep and circadian rhythm, - to support systematic professionalism and interdisciplinary collaboration with the residents in focus
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The smart rollator was the key part of MOVEROLL, finnish project. It can be used to monitor the well-being, physical condition and health of seniors based on the data it gathers. The smart aspects of the rollator are the added sensors and algorithms that measure a range of functions.
Read MoreSmart textiles and wearables for keeping independent longer the ageing population
Category: User Experience
Collecting health data for early diagnostic, treatment from distance, send help for emergency
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International project that will create Smart Inclusive Living Environments (SLE) enabling aging in place. They will support independent and active aging living through a participatory SLE ecosystem model; the 'Digital Care Facilitator', an AI-based system; a conversational agent as an everyday intermediary enhancing social participation; personal mHealth apps, and eHealth monitors and devices. The project will demonstrate that SMILE works for a very heterogeneous group: older people with severe dementia, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and care transitions during post-surgery recovery.
Read MoreSOL-TECH - Human-centered solar smart technology design for healthy aging
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The project aims to co-design and develop solar-powered smart tags and sensors that can be integrated into home environments to prevent and monitor falling, hence supporting the independent living of the aging population and improving the quality of life, while powered by clean energy harnessed from indoor light.
Read MoreSpeech analysis for Hungtington or Parkinson (to detect possible signs of early impairment)
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A model for digital neural impairment screening and self-assessment, which can evaluate cognitive and motor deficits for patients with symptoms of central nervous system (CNS) disorders, such as mild cognitive impairment (MCI), Parkinson's disease (PD), Huntington's disease (HD), or dementia. The data was collected with an Android mobile application that can track cognitive, hand tremor, energy expenditure, and speech features of subjects. We extracted 238 features as the model inputs using 16 tasks, 12 of them were based on a self-administered cognitive testing (SAGE) methodology and others used finger tapping and voice features acquired from the sensors of a smart mobile device (smartphone or tablet)
Read MoreState of the Art of Audio- and Video-Based Solutions for AAL
Category: User Experience
It is a matter of fact that Europe is facing more and more crucial challenges regarding health and social care due to the demographic change and the current economic context. The recent COVID-19 pandemic has stressed this situation even further, thus highlighting the need for taking action. Active and Assisted Living (AAL) technologies come as a viable approach to help facing these challenges, thanks to the high potential they have in enabling remote care and support. Broadly speaking, AAL can be referred to as the use of innovative and advanced Information and Communication Technologies to create supportive, inclusive and empowering applications and environments that enable older, impaired or frail people to live independently and stay active longer in society. AAL capitalizes on the growing pervasiveness and effectiveness of sensing and computing facilities to supply the persons in need with smart assistance, by responding to their necessities of autonomy, independence, comfort, security and safety. The application scenarios addressed by AAL are complex, due to the inherent heterogeneity of the end-user population, their living arrangements, and their physical conditions or impairment. Despite aiming at diverse goals, AAL systems should share some common characteristics. They are designed to provide support in daily life in an invisible, unobtrusive and user-friendly manner. Moreover, they are conceived to be intelligent, to be able to learn and adapt to the requirements and requests of the assisted people, and to synchronise with their specific needs. Nevertheless, to ensure the uptake of AAL in society, potential users must be willing to use AAL applications and to integrate them in their daily environments and lives. In this respect, video- and audio-based AAL applications have several advantages, in terms of unobtrusiveness and information richness. Indeed, cameras and microphones are far less obtrusive with respect to the hindrance other wearable sensors may cause to one's activities. In addition, a single camera placed in a room can record most of the activities performed in the room, thus replacing many other non-visual sensors. Currently, video-based applications are effective in recognising and monitoring the activities, the movements, and the overall conditions of the assisted individuals as well as to assess their vital parameters (e.g., heart rate, respiratory rate). Similarly, audio sensors have the potential to become one of the most important modalities for interaction with AAL systems, as ?iew full abstract
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