Platforms for AAL Applications

Fagerberg, G; Kung, Antonio; Wichert, Reiner; Tazari, Mohammad-Reza; Jean-Bart, Bruno; Bauer, Gerald; Zimmermann, Gottfried; Furfari, Francesco; Potortì, Francesco; Chessa, Stefano; Hellenschmidt, Michael; Gorman, Joe; Alexandersson, Jan; Bund, Jürgen; Carrasco, Eduardo; Epelde, Gorka; Klíma, Martin; Urdaneta, Elena; Vanderheiden, Gregg C.; Zinnikus, Ingo

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-16982-3_14

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“…Fagerberg et al [4] presented an extensive overview about the latest developments of AAL projects, confirming that most of the developed projects stand alone in terms of interoperability. The authors affirm that there is more investment on the AAL area, being multiple projects addressing the same problems, without considering interoperability, due to several factors, such as development procedures, architectures and requirements guidelines.…”

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confidence: 83%

“…As previously stated, what is occurring is the lack of viable business models that truly implement the needed interoperability [4][5][6]. In AAL projects interoperability comes in many forms, going from the sensor systems to the certification procedure.…”

Section: Aal Ecosystemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A common issue with AAL projects, mainly due to the rapid development that is demanded, is that they are singular, meaning that they work by themselves and cannot be integrated with other systems [4][5][6]. Although it seems harmless, this issue quite serious.…”

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confidence: 99%

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

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Nováis

Simões

2014

Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis, Computer Vision, and Applications

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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.

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confidence: 83%

Section: Aal Ecosystemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

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Nováis

Simões

2014

Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis, Computer Vision, and Applications

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“…As indicated in [26], one of the reasons is the lack of a common platform. MPIGate has been design to support this point of view.…”

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confidence: 99%

MPIGate: A Solution to Use Heterogeneous Networks for Assisted Living Applications

Cruz-S'nchez

Havet

Chehaider

et al. 2012

2012 9th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing and 9th International Conference on Autonomic and Tr

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Abstract-Existing sensors and actuators, that can be used in an AAL (ambient assisting living) environment, work on heterogeneous network protocols, e.g., WiFi, Bluetooth, EIB/KNX and Zigbee. For a given sensor/actuator, the choice of its underlying communication protocol is optimized according to its bandwidth and/or energy needs. However, integrating sensors/actuators of heterogeneous network protocols into an AAL system arises interoperability problems. In this paper, we present MPIGate, a multi-protocol gateway and interface for assisted living applications. Besides its multiple communication drivers for supporting the different protocols, MPIGate also proposes a database for storing the last updated sensor data as well as an user interface for both transparent data access and easy application development. MPIGate has been deployed in a smart home technical test bed at our LORIA labs. We presents some first results and discuss the lessons learnt.

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“…Unfortunately, developing AAL applications without a common framework has proven itself to be ineffective and cumbersome [32]. Therefore, the aforementioned initiatives tried to standardize the development process by introducing the concept of a platform [3,12]. The exact definition of the AAL platform varies, but the common denominator is that it typically provides an environment for constructing applications from a set of reusable business services, which can be easily composed and supported by the system services provided by the platform itself.…”

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confidence: 99%

Seamless semantic enrichment of services in assistive environments

Żmuda

Psiuk

2014

Univ Access Inf Soc

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The paper proposes a methodology and a toolbased support for the development of semantic services in ambient-assisted living (AAL)-oriented assistive environments. A review of existing approaches in this area is conducted. The review covers a variety of AAL platforms from which universAAL has been chosen for the experimental implementation. The paper presented the iterative development methodology of service semantics, which facilitates the efficient creation of error-free services in AAL platforms. The features needed for the realization of the methodology are implemented as a universAAL platform extension named the annotation-based semantic enrichment. The proposed approach is assessed in the context of a sample scenario in which the services promoting universal access for elderly people or otherwise impaired persons are developed. The assessment results are used to highlight the added value of the presented work and to identify potential areas of future improvement.

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Platforms for AAL Applications

Cited by 24 publications

References 5 publications

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

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

MPIGate: A Solution to Use Heterogeneous Networks for Assisted Living Applications

Seamless semantic enrichment of services in assistive environments

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