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AALIANCE Initiative presents Roadmap for Research on AAL
The AALIANCE initiative – “The European Ambient Assisted Living Innovation Alliance” - aims to coordinate the European AAL R&D community and to develop a common strategic vision for short-, mid- and long-term R&D approaches in the AAL context. An important step towards this aim is the release of the Ambient Assisted Living Roadmap for research and innovation which the project consortium has now published on its website.
This initiative is part of the EU action plan for Ageing Well in the Information Society which aims to provide new solutions to help Europe tackle the challenges of the ageing population.
The full document of 120 pages (including a foreword from Florin Lupescu, Director of Directorate ICT addressing Societal Challenges in DG Information Society and Media of the European Commission) provides an in-depth look into the future of AAL application areas, concepts and technologies until 2025. The first part of the roadmap describes the main trends for AAL, analyzed from demographical, economical and technological points of view. Furthermore, existing barriers for deployment of AAL are explained in the document. Starting from the identification of potential needs of elderly people for living independently in different contexts, the field of AAL is grouped in three principal application domains:
- Ageing at home and on the move (AAL4persons)
- Ageing in society,
- Ageing at work.
In the second part of the Roadmap, these application domains, potential applications and services and use cases are examined.
The third part of the document focuses on the underlying technologies, on which applications and functionalities of the previous domains are based. They are grouped in five basic groups:
- Sensing
- Reasoning
- Acting
- Communication
- Interaction
In the final chapters an outlook on questions of system integration and interoperability (i.e. ways to compose an AAL system) is given.
The full Roadmap document is available now on the AALIANCE website.
AALIANCE
Ambient Assisted Living Roadmap, August 2009
Download: http://www.aaliance.eu/public/documents/aaliance-roadmap/
Roadmap Evaluation Workshop on 22/23 September 2009 in Eindhoven
In order to present and discuss the roadmap to the AAL R&D community in Europe the AALIANCE consortium organises a validation workshop on the 22 and 23 of September at the High Tech Campus (Philips Facility) in Eindhoven. During the workshop there will be two series of parallel sessions on application domains and also for the technology areas in which the relevant chapters of the roadmap will be evaluated. The AALIANCE invites all experts from relevant organizations or projects with reasonable knowledge in the domains and technologies of AAL to participate in this exercise.
More information about the workshop and on how
to participate can be found here:
http://www.aaliance.eu/public/events/aaliance-aal-roadmap-evaluation-workshop
AALIANCE is funded within the specific programme "Cooperation" and the research theme "ICT" of the 7th European Framework Programme. More than 35 European companies and organisations - covering the the whole AAL value chain - are currentely members and partners of AALIANCE. More on http://www.aaliance.eu.