ACANTO ACCOMPANY ALFRED

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1 You will find below an overview of current research and innovation projects funded by the EU. It regards projects funded by the European R&I Programme, Horizon 2020, which started in 2014, and its two preceding programmes: the ICT Policy Support Programme (part of the Competitiveness and Innovation framework Programme - CIP), and the Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development. For applied research projects on ICT for Ageing Well carried out under the Active Assisted Living Programme, refer to the Catalogue of Projects at

2 ACANTO CyberphysicAl social NeTwOrk using robot friends Up to 4,3 M EC funding (Horizon 2020) February July 2018 ACCOMPANY Acceptable robotics COMPanions for AgeiNg Years Up to 3.7 M EC funding (FP7) October September 2014 The goal of the ACANTO project is to spur older adults into a sustainable and regular level of physical exercise under the guidance and the supervision of their carers. The key elements of ACANTO are a robotic friend (the FriWalk) that supports the user in the execution of daily activities that require physical exercise, and an intelligent system that recommends activities that a senior user perceives as compelling and rewarding. The FriWalk takes the form of a standard walking assistant, but it is in fact an intelligent robot that is able to localise itself, to sense the surrounding environment, to plan a course of action that suits the user needs and to guide the user along safe routes. The FriWalk is also a personal trainer that can support the user in the execution of a training programme, monitor the motion of the user in search of muscular or gait problems and report them into the user profile. ACCOMPANY has developed a robotic companion as part of an intelligent environment. It helps older people to live independently at home by providing physical, cognitive and social assistance in everyday home tasks. ACCOMPANY contributes to the re-enablement of the user by assisting him or her to carry out tasks independently. Services to the user are delivered through socially interactive, acceptable and empathic interaction, building on computational models of social cognition and interaction. With Care-O-bot 3, a state of the art service robot platform, user requirements and user acceptance of the robot have been assessed. User study results have been fed back to make the technology better suit user demands and preferences. Three test sites in three different European countries (UK, the Netherlands and France) as well as a dedicated showcase have ensured an extensive evaluation process which has also taken into account cultural differences. ACCOMPANY's results have demonstrated that a social robot can potentially help to prevent isolation and loneliness, offering stimulating activities whilst respecting autonomy and independence. ALFRED Personal Interactive Assistant for Independent Living and Active Ageing Up to 4 M EC funding (FP7) October September 2016 ALFRED s objective is to develop a mobile, personalized assistant that helps elderly people stay independent, coordinate with their carers and foster their social contacts. ALFRED is using cutting edge technologies such as advanced speech interaction, so you can talk directly to him. ALFRED will be very easy to use and will provide context-sensitive services related to social inclusion, care, physical exercise and cognitive games. 2 / 13

3 Beyond Silos Learning from integrated ecare practice and promoting deployment in European regions Up to 5 M EC funding (CIP) February January 2017 CARER+ Ageing well in the community and at home: developing digital competencies of care workers to improve the quality of life of older people Up to 2 M EC funding (CIP) April March 2015 CAREWELL Multi-level integration for patients with complex needs Up to 3 M EC funding (CIP) February January 2017 BeyondSilos enables delivery of integrated care to older Europeans to support them to live independently within the community by providing the ICT tools necessary to join up care pathways across organisations, in particular between social and health service providers. A key area of integration is providing cross-sectoral teams with common access to client data, including those coming from home platforms providing monitoring of physiological and environmental parameters and tools for improving selfcare. The ICT platform will enable regionally customised integrated care models based on common care pathways aligned with the SmartCare Pilot A currently in the implementation phase. BeyondSilos brings together pioneers and early followers from 7 EU regions. It intends to provide pathway-based, ICTsupported, integrated care to > older citizens during the lifespan of the project. The Carer+ project identified the ICT competences of care workers and informal carers (the Digital Competence Framework ) and developed these by designing and implementing a set of learning paths and educational resources for mobile and work-based learning that responded to major challenges to their professionalisation: isolation, access to technology, flexibility of study modes, lack of support and motivation, formal accreditation, recognition of prior experience, and scalability. The CARER+ partnership has proposed the deployment of a specifically designed technological environment for self and professional development, supported by a blended-learning approach with peer-to-peer and intergenerational learning methodology. CareWell will enable the delivery of integrated healthcare to frail elderly patients in a pilot setting through comprehensive multidisciplinary integrated care programmes where the role of ICTs can foster the coordination and patient centered delivery care. Carewell will focus in particular complex, multi-morbid elderly patients, who the patients most in need of health and social care resources (35% the total cost of Health Care System) and more complex interventions due to their frailty and comorbidities (health and social care coordination, monitoring, self-management of the patient and informal care giver). 3 / 13

4 DALI Devices for Assisted Living Up to 3M EC funding (FP7) November October 2014 DOREMI Decrease of cognitive decline, malnutrition and sedentariness by elderly empowerment in lifestyle Management and social Inclusion Up to 2.9 M EC funding (FP7) November October 2016 Shopping centres, airports, museums and hospitals are the kind of complex and confusing environments where elderly people on the verge of cognitive decline could have difficulties walking around without help. This led researchers on the DALI project to develop a robotic cognitive walker (c- Walker) that can be taken to, or picked up at, the place to be visited, gently guiding the person around the building safely. The device takes corrective actions when the user comes across the type of busy area, obstacle or incident they want to avoid. The c-walker uses different solutions (RFID tags, invisible QR codes, and cameras) to localise itself in the environment. Furthermore, it can connect with remote sensors, such as surveillance cameras, and with other c-walkers deployed in the environment to gain remote knowledge of the presence of anomalies, crowded spaces or hazards. The device is equipped with brakes and motorised wheels. Haptic armbands tell users when and how to turn. They can also call for assistance if necessary. The DOREMI project focuses on three main health aspects related to frailty in older people: unhealthy nutrition, sedentariness and cognitive decline. These aspects are the main items at the basis of the DOREMI environment: a context-aware and smart system able to learn and reason about older people, their intentions, preferences and aims. The system is able to provide feedback and propose solutions to improve their lifestyle. The specialist will be able to select and assign a personalised lifestyle protocol that will be associated to a set of game typologies (cognitive games, social games or exergames). At home, the old person will be able to select the game scenario which best corresponds to personal preferences and habits. Subsequently, the system will follow a monitorlearn loop to understand how the old person evolves according to the compliance of the assigned protocol. The effectiveness and impacts, on both users and on the healthcare system, is being tested in a set of pilots set up in Italy and UK, involving both elderly users and care providers. ehcobutler A global ecosystem for the independent and healty living of elder people with mild cognitive impairments Up to 2,9 M EC funding (Horizon 2020) January December 2017 The project ehcobutler aims to test an open ICT platform that enables elderly to simply integrate their leisure and care apps. The ehcobutler platform also helps the family, caregivers and social care systems to share information on the activities, conditions and moods of those they care about. Finally it also provides a trusted ecosystem for apps providers. ehcobutler will demonstrate the socio-economic benefits from ICT pilot projects with real users, including how the platform can help translate promising results into scalable practice across Europe. To that end the ehcobutler platform will be tested in 7 countries on 8 pilot sites, with different business cases, assessing their returns of investment as well as social returns on investment, including profitability, health care cost reduction and increased independence and quality of life. Countries involved are Italy, France, Serbia, Israel, Greece, Spain and Netherlands. 4 / 13

5 ENRICHME ENabling Robot and assisted living environment for Independent Care and Health Monitoring of the Elderly Up to 3,9 M EC funding (Horizon 2020) March February 2018 ENRICHME tackles the progressive decline of cognitive capacity in the ageing population proposing an integrated platform for Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) with a mobile service robot for long-term human monitoring and interaction, which helps the elderly to remain independent and active for longer. The system will contribute and build on recent advances in mobile service robotics and AAL, exploiting new non-invasive techniques for physiological and activity monitoring, as well as adaptive Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), to provide services in support to mental fitness and social inclusion. The system will enable caregivers and medical staff to identify evolving trends of cognitive impairments and to detect immediate emergencies. ENRICHME will use new qualitative models for rich yet compact representations of daily life activities. ewall ewall for Active Long Living Up to 6 M EC funding (FP7) November October 2016 FARSEEING FAll Repository for the design of Smart and self-adaptive Environments prolonging INdependent living Up to 3.5 M EC funding (FP7) January December 2014 ewall will be an affordable, easy-to-install prefabricated wall that can be mounted on an existing wall and includes all the ICT needed to enable a number of services for the senior citizen to cover major challenges in Active and Healthy Ageing. The project is carrying out high-risk and multidisciplinary research and will have a large-scale demonstrator exercise for validating the wall concept with solid clinical evidence. This will include both technical-, user- and legalevaluation, to measure the impact on the Quality of Life. The ewall system will extend the state-of-the-art of Assistive Platforms and will significantly increase the independent living of seniors, taking into account cardiopulmonary conditions, muscle functions, declines in neuromuscular control of movements which cause higher risks of fall, declines in memory, the ability to orientate and coping with complex situations. The project is also performing socioeconomic studies to deliver recommendations for the health sector that will result in mid- and long-term benefits for the sustainability of national health systems. FARSEEING has been collecting data about real-life falls of older adults, in order to better understand the risk factors for falls. This database will, for the first time, enable researchers to study the nature of a fall based on enough objectively measured data. Based on this information, solutions are being developed to prevent older adults from falling. This also includes exercises to stay fit. In addition, FARSEEING researchers have studied how to encourage older adults to take-up and maintain use of these technologies. 5 / 13

6 FATE Fall Detector for the Elder Up to 2.2 M EC funding (CIP) March February 2015 GIRAFF+ Combing social interaction and long term monitoring for promoting independent living Up to 3 M EC funding (FP7) January December 2014 GrowMeUp Up to 2,7 M EC funding (Horizon 2020) February January 2018 FATE aimed to validate an innovative ICT-based solution for the detection of falls in ageing people. A portable and easy-touse fall detector runs a specific algorithm to accurately detect falls, thanks to a robust and reliable telecommunications layer (based on ZigBee and Bluetooth technologies) which can send alarms regardless of the user being inside or outside of the home. The system can be complemented by e.g. a bed presence sensor and the i-walker, an intelligent robotic walker. The system as a whole ensures the successful prevention and detection of falls in all circumstances. It has been tested and validated in pilot studies involving real living scenarios, in Spain, Italy and Ireland, in close collaboration with public authorities. The system will be made commercially available by spin-off company SENSE4care in the Autumn GIRAFF+ has developed a system for early detection and adaptive support to people's changing needs related to ageing. The Giraff+-system consists of a network of home sensors that measure e.g. blood pressure and temperature, or detect e.g. whether somebody occupies a chair, falls down or moves inside a room. The data from these sensors are interpreted by an intelligent system in terms of activities (e.g. the person is going to bed) and health and wellbeing (e.g. the person is tired or well rested). Alarms or reminders to the person or his/her caregivers can be triggered, and the generated data can be analysed over time by a health professional. Part of the system is a telepresence robot, the Giraff, which can be moved around in the home remotely via the internet, e.g. by a caregiver. The Giraff is effectively a mobile communication platform, with video camera, display, microphone and speakers, which helps the user to maintain his/her social contacts. The main goal of the project is to provide an affordable robot that will be able to learn from older people's routines and habits, therefore enhancing and adapting its functionality to dynamically compensate the constant deterioration of the cognitive ability of individuals, while simultaneously ensuring a consistent service provision and quality of life throughout the aging process. Moreover, cloud-computing technologies will be explored and developed so as to allow different robots to share information between each other, where each unit will be able to capitalize from a collective knowledge base of service information. One important advantage of the robotic system GrowMeUp is its ability to grow over time to cope with elderly specific preferences. More specifically, the system provides an adaptable and intelligent dialogue component that will make the system more attractive for older people to interact with. By correlating dialogues with recognized emotions during the interaction, the system will be capable of holding multiple interactions and building emotional bonds with the older person in the same way that humans do. For example, the system will remember and learn from previous interactions and use this knowledge in future dialogues and decisions. 6 / 13

7 HOBBIT The Mutual Care Robot Up to 2.8 M EC funding (FP7) November August 2015 INCA INclusive INtroduction of INtegrated CAre Up to 2.14 M EC funding (CIP) January June 2016 IN LIFE INdependent LIving support Functions for the Elderly Up to 3.4 M EC funding (Horizon 2020) February 2015 January 2018 HOBBIT sets out to investigate the Mutual Care paradigm to overcome problems of robot acceptance by older persons. World players in home care robotics tend to focus on pragmatic single function systems (USA) or humanoid robots (Japan, Korea). HOBBIT zooms in on the interaction between robot and owner/user with a new, more user-centred concept called Mutual Care". It allows and entices people to "take care" of the robot like a partner, so they can develop real feelings and affections toward it. For people it is easier to accept assistance from a robot when they themselves can also assist the machine. In close cooperation with institutional caregivers, acceptance and usability of the robots are being measured and improved. INCA aims to propose a model that promotes higher coordination of socio-sanitary services while reducing costs, improving patient experience and achieving greater efficiency from health delivery systems. The inclusive approach of INCA can help to remove technological barriers for patients engagement and leverage integrated care programmes in Member States. This would lead to operational deployment of novel organizational models and care pathways for integrated care. The initiative contributes to the current state-of-the-art in Chronic Disease Management, aspiring to integrate or facilitate the integration of social programs beyond the clinical vision of the care chain provision. INCA puts the patient at the centre of a personalised network of stakeholders (Social Services, Health providers, Caregivers ), empowering them to communicate directly with their circle of care. Building on existing knowledge and tested AAL technology/services IN LIFE will offer 19 different services, which will be further optimised and adapted to the particular needs and wants of various elderly groups, including mild cognitive impairment (MCI), early dementia and cognitive impairment with co morbid conditions, plus formal and informal caregivers. These interoperable services will be integrated into an open, cloud- based, reference architecture to be tested in 6 Europe-wide pilots in Greece, Netherlands, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and UK, with over 1200 elderly with cognitive impairments, 600 formal and informal caregivers, and 60 other stakeholders. Attention will be paid to issues concerning multilingual and multicultural environments. The project will establish and extensively test new business models for a new taxonomy of elderly with cognitive impairments, encompassing those that are clustered as dependent, at risk, assisted or active and formulating and accessing new business scenarios, such as the user-centric, service provider-centric and data exploitation-centric ones. 7 / 13

8 ISTOPPFALLS ICT based System to Predict & Prevent Falls Up to 3.3 M EC funding (FP) October September 2014 I-DONT-FALL Integrated prevention and Detection solutions Tailored to the population and Risk Factors associated with FALLs Up to 2.6 M EC funding (CIP) April September 2015 I-SUPPORT ICT-Supported Bath Robots Up to 3.5 M EC funding (Horizon 2020) March February 2018 ISTOPPFALLS develops and implements ICT based technologies for fall prediction and prevention and integrates them in daily life practices of older people living at home. They allow for exercise training and fall risk assessment with discrete measuring technologies and adaptive assistance functions. The Senior Mobility Monitor (SMM) continuously monitors the mobility of the users. It provides quantitative information on frequency, duration and type of mobility activities and qualitative information on balance function and muscle power. The MS Kinect based fall preventive exercise training program will facilitate home-based preventative exercises, that also whereby data is acquired by unobtrusive sensing together with biomechanical modelling and optional heart rate data assessment. A knowledge based system for fall prediction & prevention correlates these two sources of mobility information and in turn provides sufficient data to perform a trend analysis of these entities. IStoppFalls will be based on an interactive TV solution with gesture & voice control, providing advanced human computer interaction which is adjusted to the capabilities of older adult users at home. The main goal of I-DONT-FALL is to deploy, pilot and evaluate a range of innovative ICT solutions for fall detection and prevention management. The I-DONT-FALL integrated platform is flexibly configured to the needs of specific target groups and risk factors associated with fall incidents. Endusers are offered tailored fall technological solutions, while medical experts and health professionals have access to a wide range of tools, enabling them to customize fall solutions to the end-users needs. The effectiveness of the solutions is being tested by over 500 elderly users/ patients across different countries, cultures, age groups and fall risk factors. The project is also eliciting best practices for tailoring fall management solutions to specific risk factors, root causes and users (fallers ) needs. The goal of the project is to develop a robotic shower system to assist frail persons with the movements associated with showering. Also, the system will assist in sit-to-stand and stand-to-sit actions when they enter the shower cabin. For this purpose the proposed system will be equipped with three service robotic devices: A motorized shower chair dedicated to the provision of the stand-to-sit and sit-to-stand functionality. A robotic shower hose dedicated to the provision of pouring water, soaping, etc. A robotic washer/wiper dedicated to the provision of scrubbing, wiping and drying. The robotic shower hose will be made of soft materials and its design will resemble that of a conventional shower hose. The central controller of the I-SUPPORT robot will control the motion of the robotic shower hose to wash difficult to-reach parts such as the back or the feet. The robotic shower hose will move either semi-autonomously (i.e. its motion will be partially controlled by the computer and partially by the person) or will be tele-manipulated in a very intuitive way by the frail senior him/herself using a device very much similar to a TV remote control. 8 / 13

9 MARIO Managing active and healthy aging with use of caring service robots Up to 3.3 M EC funding (FP) February 2015 January 2018 Miraculous-Life Miraculous-Life for Independent Elderly Living Up to M EC funding (FP7) December November 2016 The project will last for three years during which three pilot studies of robots interacting with people with dementia will be undertaken. The first pilot will run in the West of Ireland, organised by NUI Galway s School of Nursing and Midwifery, the second will run in Stockport, UK, organised by the city s health care managers, while the third will run in Italy, organised by a leading research hospital, Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, which is pushing research boundaries in comprehensive geriatric assessment. The technology at the heart of MARIO is the robot Kompai, designed and developed by a consortium partner, French company Robosoft. Other partners in the consortium will provide technological expertise in the areas of robotic applications and semantic computing. The main aim of the project is to design, develop and evaluate an innovative user-centric technological solution, the Virtual Support Partner (VSP), attending to the elder (65+) daily activity and safety needs, while the elder goes about his normal daily life. At the heart of the project is an avatar interface: an electronic and digital persona that older people can connect with. When integrated in a robot, this promises to make daily life a lot easier for senior citizens. A crucial asset of the Virtual Support Partner (VSP) will be its capacity for behavioural and emotional understanding. Thanks to its Avatar-based interface, the VSP is able fuse facial expressions, intonation, gestures and other contextual information of the user's environment to provide empathic responses and services. As such, it provides ICT services to support daily activities, in a human-like way. This in turn stimulates and motivates older people to stay active. In the longer term, the system will provide practical, psychological and social benefits enabling and motivating the elderly to remain active at home and thus prolonging their independence and improving their wellbeing. To find out if the concept lives up to its promises, up to 100 elderly people in two test-bed locations in Switzerland and the Netherlands will try out the system over a six-month period. 9 / 13

10 PERSSILAA PERsonalised ICT Supported Service for Independent Living and Active Ageing Up to 2,5 M EC funding (FP7) November October 2016 PROFOUND The Prevention of Falls Network for Dissemination Up to 1 M EC funding (CIP) March February 2016 RADIO Robots in assisted living environments: Unobtrusive, efficient, reliable and modular solutions for independent ageing Up to 1 M EC funding (CIP) April 2015 March 2018 The project aims at the development and validation of a new service model that addresses frailty in community dwelling for older adults. PERSSILAA's main focus is to: develop remote service modules for screening, monitoring and training. enable a transition of our care services from fragmented reactive disease management to preventive personalized services, that are offered locally, supported by proactive caregivers and health professionals, which is integrated into existing healthcare services. set up a technical service infrastructure to support these multiple services and users in an efficient, reliable and easy way which will entail gamification, interoperability and clinical decision support. The validation is being done in two regions: the Enschede region in the Netherlands and the Campania region in Italy. PERSSILAA builds on activities within the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Aging and on the results of earlier European projects. The consortium with 8 partners from 5 countries provides a unique mix of social, medical and technological sciences with industry, academia and end user organisations. The thematic network PROFOUND works with the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (the Action Group on Fall Prevention) to set off the dissemination and implementation of best practice in falls prevention across Europe. The network wants to curate the best falls prevention resources, to be used by professionals in practice and to inform application development. It is also developing powerful web applications to enable easy production of tailored information for at-risk older people. Finally PROFOUND aims to influence policy to increase the awareness of the fall problems and the benefits innovative prevention programmes can bring. With this message Profound targets health and social care authorities, the commercial sector, NGOs and the general public, to disseminate the work of the network across EU. RADIO action s four main dimensions: User acceptance, Integrated and power-aware data collection transmission processing, User interfaces and Architecture, will pave the way for wider deployment of technology solutions in active and healthy ageing, for integration of robots and smart home sensors in the Internet of Things and for larger penetration of technology based solutions. In a wide-area ecosystem of RADIO deployments, different societal needs and health problems will be addressed by different configurations of the key enabling technologies. The consortium is pursuing a novel approach to acceptance and unobtrusiveness: a system where sensing equipment is not discrete but an obvious and accepted part of the user s daily life. By using the integrated smart home/assistant robot system as the sensing equipment for health monitoring, we divert the users attention from the functionality of the sensors rather than from the sensors themselves. In this manner, sensors do not need to be discrete and distant or masked and cumbersome to install; they do however need to be perceived as a natural component of the smart home/assistant robot functionalities. 10 / 13

11 RAMCIP Robotic Assistant for MCI patients at home Up to 3,9 M EC funding (Horizon 2020) January February 2017 ReAAL make it ReAAL Up to 5 M EC funding (CIP) January January 2016 The RAMCIP vision is of future service robots for assisted living environments that can provide safe, proactive and discreet assistance in the significant aspects of the user s daily life, ranging from food preparation, eating and dressing activities, through to managing the home and keeping it secure. At the same time, the robot should help the user maintain a positive outlooks and also to exercise their cognitive and physical skills. RAMCIP will work towards future robots which help the users to perform exercise as part of their assistive work, thus embedding exercise in their daily behaviour. The key research strands the RAMCIP consortium will address to make this possible are: Cognitive functions based on advanced modelling and monitoring of the user and home, allowing the robot to decide when and how to assist, acting autonomously or in cooperation with the user. Adaptive multimodal human-robot communication interfaces, with a strong emphasis on empathic communication and augmented reality displays. Advanced, dextrous and safe robotic manipulation capabilities, for the first time applied in service robots for assisted living environments, enabling grasping and manipulation of a wide variety of home objects, as well as safe physical HRI, introducing assistance activities that involve physical contact, all with special emphasis on safety. Building on the UniversAAL project, REAAL aims to demonstrate the advantages of open and flexible ICT solutions as a basis for flexible and personalised services for independent and active living of older people. Over the last decade many dedicated ICT solutions have been developed to deliver services in support of sustainable independent living and active ageing of older people. The research community has spent a lot of resources developing personalised solutions covering the different perspectives of the problem, such as safety, mobility, reminders, home management, telehealth and telecare. These specific solutions have turned out hard to integrate or combine with other services. This has resulted in expensive and complicated services, limiting scale of deployment and investments. Universaal and Reaal promote a more integrated approach, based on open standards, to overcome this rigid siloisation of ICT-based services for ageing well. REAAL will measure the return of investment of the pilot deployment of services to more than 7000 users across seven countries in Europe. REAAL aims to contribute to the Action Group on Independent Living of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP AHA). 11 / 13

12 ROBOT-ERA Implementation and integration of advanced Robotic systems and intelligent Environments in real scenarios for the ageing population Up to 6.5 M EC funding (FP7) January December 2015 Robot-Era develops, implements and demonstrates the general feasibility, scientific/technical effectiveness and social/legal plausibility and acceptability of a plurality of complete advanced robotic services, integrated in intelligent environments. These robotic services will actively work in real conditions and cooperate with real people and between them, to favour independent living, improve the quality of life and the efficiency of care for elderly people. The Domestic, Condominium and Outdoor robotic platforms have been developed and the Robot-Era services have been defined. The first experimental loop in Peccioli (Italy) and Ängen (Sweden) started in September SEACW Social Ecosystem for Anti-Aging, Capacitation and Wellbeing Up to 1.7 M EC funding (CIP) February March 2015 SILVER Supporting Independent LiVing for the Elderly through Robotics Up to 2.6 M EC funding (FP7) January September 2015 SmartCare Joining up ICT and service processes for quality integrated care in Europe SEACW has created a pilot ecosystem including tools for the provision of awareness, information, training, e-literacy and training on ICT for active and healthy aging. Action for Healthy Ageing is the name of this first European ecosystem for promoting healthy, active aging using new technologies. With the goal of being effective and dynamic, the SEACW ecosystem enables users to find news, forums, videos, a social network, mobile applications, games that foment mental activity and even a training program for active, healthy ageing through the use of ICTs. For now, the offer has attracted over 11,000 users and, according to the developers' forecasts, will reach approximately 20,000 by the end of the year. SILVER searches for new robotics based technologies to assist elderly people in their everyday lives. Their purpose is to help older people to continue independent living at home even if they have physical or cognitive disabilities. A unique aspect of SILVER is that it uses a Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) process to identify and select the new technologies and solutions. In Europe, the PCP has so far been an under-utilized tool for promoting innovation. One of the aims of this project is to demonstrate the effectiveness of the PCP approach to address societal and governmental needs. SmartCare aims to define a common set of standard functional specifications for an open ICT platform enabling the delivery of integrated care to older European citizens. A total of 23 regions and their key stakeholders are defining a comprehensive set of integration building blocks around the challenges of data-sharing, coordination and communication. Up to 8 M EC funding (CIP) March February / 13

13 UNCAP Ubiquitous interoperable Care for Ageing People The project will make use of solutions and technologies developed in previous research projects to develop an open, scalable and privacy-savvy ICT infrastructure designed to help aging people live independently while maintaining and improving their lifestyle. The final solution will consist of real products that will be made available on the market. Up to 3.1 M EC funding (Horizon 2020) January December 2017 USEFIL Unobtrusive Smart Environments for Independent Living Up to 3.4 M EC funding (FP7) November October 2014 WIISEL Wireless Insole for Independent and Safe Elderly Living Up to M EC funding (FP7) November March 2015 USEFIL provides advanced but affordable in-home monitoring and web communication solutions that are unobtrusive. It addresses the gap between state of the art technological research and the practical needs of elderly people. USEFIL uses low cost "off-the-shelf" technology to develop immediately applicable services that assist the elderly in maintaining their independence and daily activities. Installation of the USEFIL system will not require retrofitting in a person s residence and will be almost invisible once installed. Elements are e.g. low cost wireless video cameras, a smart web-tv and a wrist-worn mobile unit (matching daily activities with the user profile). The software driven system is based on open source platforms, so applications can be easily added or taken out with no real limit to the number of services offered. The WIISEL system is a non invasive ambient device, designed to monitor gait parameters and assess fall risk in elderly wearing the WIISEL sensing insoles. It continuously captures data related to human gait and balance from a user in his home as well as in any other locations he may go by foot. A commercially available Smartphone collects data wirelessly from the sensing insoles and transfers it to a backend computer server via mobile internet connection. Transfer of sensor data from the insoles to the Smartphone is implemented using the Bluetooth Low Energy wireless standard. WIISEL is made of 3 main components: One Pair of Instrumented Insoles with embedded pressure and inertial sensors One Smartphone (off the shelf) A back-end server with administrative web application and the Gait Analysis Tool software for analysing and presenting data to medical professionals. Updated September / 13

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