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REMOTE
REMOTE is a pan-European research project concerned with the needs of elderly and physically impaired people. The focus is especially on those living in geographical or social isolation whose independent life is at risk with chronic conditions or lifestyle factors.
Background
Today, about 133 million people live with a chronic condition, which requires ongoing adjustments by the affected person and long lasting interactions with the health care system.
With this number being projected to increase by 2030 by more than one percent per year, resulting in an estimated chronically ill population of 171 million, several challenges arise with regards to modern healthcare systems.
With ICT pervasively affecting all areas of social and economic life, particularly in industrialised countries, several opportunities are there to be pursued through a digital revolution for healthcare.
Project description
The project will provide support for an independent life at home with the aid of ambient intelligence (“Aml”, a technological approach, which means to enhance a person´s environment with sensors, radio modules and computer processors in order to make everyday life easier) and telehealthchar.
The elderly´s personal environment will be improved with various kinds of monitoring and automation abilities for tracing activity and health condition, and detecting risks and critical situations.
For this purpose the project will use the scale-up of existing research prototypes and new systems for collecting human- and context-related data. These include sensors attached to a person´s body which measure e.g. body temperature, blood pressure, heart rate, human posture, etc.
Furthermore sensors and actuators can be installed in houses or cars for providing context information, e.g., air temperature, luminance, humidity, human location and motion, etc.
Health care professionals have to be able to identify and react immediately to health risks to their patients, irrespective of time and place. As a growing number of elderly in urban as well as in rural areas live on their own, monitoring activity and medical data at anytime and from anywhere can close the growing gap between urban and rural areas and thus ensure safety and a better quality of care.
REMOTE attains this goal by introducing an innovative, ontology-driven, open reference architecture and platform that will enable interoperability, seamless connectivity and sharing of content among the different services.
The project´s overall concept includes:
- A user-centred design philosophy and the consistent involvement of its potensial end-users
- Processes for reaching consensus among all interested parties (stakeholders)
- Strong commitment to ethical and legal issues(e.g equal rights and privacy protection)
- Measurement of usability, impact and acceptance of the project´s developments by elderly
- Close collaboration with research and development institutions and companies in the field of tele-healthcare and ambient intelligence. Significant contribution to the recent developments in tele-healthcare and ambient intelligence
Project partners
SIEMENS S.A., Spain) is coordinator of the project. The other project partners are:
- University Hospital of North-Norway (UNN) - Norwegian Centre for Integrated Care and Telemedicine, Norway
- TSB Soluciones S.A., Spain
- Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
- Fundación para la Investigación Médica Aplicada, Spain
- Saliwell Ltd., Israel
- Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece
- Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas, Greece
- Netscouts gemeinnuetzige GmbH, Germany
- Abama Technologies S.L., Spain
- The European Older People´s Platform, Belgium
- Bluepoint IT Solutions, Romania
- Medea SRL, Italy
- Fraunhofer-Institut für Biomedizinische Technik, Germany,
- Ortholine Ltd., Israel
- European Association of Service Providers for Persons with Disabilities, Belgium
Financing
The Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) Joint Programme
Project period
June 2009 – May 2012
Contact person
Project manager Siri Bjørvig, telephone number +47 971 64 725 and email siri.bjorvig@telemed.no
More information on the project
- www.remote-project.eu
- http://www.itfunk.org/docs/prosjekter/AAL-REMOTE.htm
- http://www.itfunk.org/docs/AAL.html
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