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From: David Stodolsky <>
Subject: Complete ambient assisting living experiment
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 10:20:36 +0100

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Objective:
Europe faces a social change, which is brought about by the  
unprecedented demographic change: the share of elderly people to the  
entire population is steadily growing, while the share of the  
youngest; especially the working population is shrinking. Ambient  
Assisted Living (AAL), as a specific user-oriented type of "Ambient  
Intelligence", may greatly help in this situation.

AAL aims to prolong the time people can live in a decent more  
independent way by increasing their autonomy and self-confidence, by  
allowing them to discharge normal everyday activities, by improved  
monitoring and care of the elderly or ill person, by enhancing their  
security while ultimately saving resources. The main objective is to  
develop a wearable light device able to measure specific vital signs  
of the elder or ill person, to detect falls and to communicate  
autonomously in real time with his/her caregiver in case of an  
emergency, wherever they are. The emergency information can be  
directed to the personal caretaker and/or the 112 Emergency Service.

The emergency information will provide the geographic position and  
health information of the elder in a sensible way for the caretaker  
or emergency service. The incorporation of largely non-intrusive new  
sensors for fall detection and highly sensitive positioning is  
expected to address many of the elderly concerns about adopting  
technology. The monitoring device for the caretaker can range from a  
mobile phone and/or a more complex system so that an integrated care- 
taking service can be created to look after groups of elders. In this  
case, when monitoring the elder at home, the system will be  
complemented with other devices such as cameras in a way that  
personal services can be established for the elder. The system will  
be tested in a real usability site arranged through a social  
programme for the elderly, and will obtain reliable assessment by  
gathering real end user's feedback.

David Stodolsky    Skype: davidstodolsky

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