An AAL Collaborative System: The AAL4ALL and a Mobile Assistant Case Study

Abstract

Abstract. The areas of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) and Intelligent Systems (IS) are in full development, but there are still some issues to be resolved. One issue is the myriad of user oriented solutions that are rarely built to interact or integrate with other systems available in the market. In this paper we present the AAL4ALL project and the UserAccess implementation, showing a novel approach towards virtual organizations, interoperability and certification. The aim of this project is to provide a collaborative network of services and devices that connect every user and product from other developers, building a heterogeneous ecosystem. Thus establishing an environment for collaborative care systems, which may be available to the users in from of safety services, comfort services and healthcare services.

Active and Assisted Living Ecosystem for the Elderly

“…The key motivation is for ontologies to ensure machine-level interoperability and for glossing and document concepts to be understood and equally interpreted by service developers and end users [ 31 ]. Another example worth mentioning is AAL4ALL, a Portuguese project that comprises a 35-entity consortium, each with the common goal of developing a product and service ecosystem for the industrial generalization of AAL [ 32 ]. The UserAccess project was created as an AAL4ALL product and a test case for the viability of the entire AAL4ALL project [ 33 ].…”