Ambient Assisted Living Roadmap. Technology and Innovation for Ageing Well

1. “Ageing Well. How technologies can help”
European Workshop
Salón Avante. Barcelona, 3rd June 2010
AALIANCE
Ambient Assisted Living Roadmap
Technology and Innovation for Ageing Well
Mari Satur Torre
Fundación Vodafone
mari-satur.torre@vodafone.com

2. FACTS on AALIANCE - The European Ambient Assisted
Living Innovation Alliance
FP7 Coordination action (CA)
THEME ICT-1-7.1 ICT and Aging
Duration: 01/2008 – 03/2010
Partners: 14
Volume: 1.646.170 €
EC Contribution: 1.070.000 €

3. Members
No. Name Country Type
1. VDI/VDE Innovation + Technik GmbH Germany SME
2. AGE - the European Older People's Platform Europe Association
3. Robert Bosch GmbH Germany Industry
4. Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Germany Research
5. Fundación Vodafone España Spain Research
6. Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems - CNR Italy Research
7. Luleå University of Technology Sweden University
8. Nokia Research Center (until 31.12.2008) Finland Industry
9. Philips Electronics Netherlands Industry
10. Scuola Superiore S. Anna Italy Research
11. Sorin Group France Industry
12. University of Newcastle UK University
13. Vermon SA France SME
14. VTI Technologies Oy Finland Industry
15. Deutsche Telekom (from 1.4.2009) Germany Industry

4. General Objectives
• Provide a framework for stakeholders, led by
the industry, for the definition of research and
development priorities, timeframes and action
plans on strategically important issues in the
field of AAL
• Play a key role in ensuring an adecuate focus
of research funding for AAL, in fostering
effective public-private partnerships and in
developing a European research policy, in
particular FP7 and current activities launch by
EU member states (AAL Joint Programme)

5. Immediate Objectives
• Setting-up a sustainable network – from 14 to be
extended to approx. 35 (technology providers, systems
integrators, service providers, research organizations
and user associations)
• Coordinating and maintaining a R&D roadmap and
strategic research agenda for AAL with a mid to long
perspective
• Defining stardadisation requirements
• Providing recommendations for a European RTD policy
on AAL
• Supporting European and national entities in increasing
the political awareness and in intensifying activities for
the enhancement of new AAL technologies

6. 38 Associated Partners

7. Outcomes
March 2009 March 2010
AALIANCE
Ambient Assisted
Living - Strategic
Research Agenda

8. Table of Contents
• Introduction
• AAL for persons
• AAL in the community
• AAL at work
• Enabling Technologies
• AAL systems composition

9. Ageing population scenario
• A growing number of older people living alone and
in need of (intensive) care.
• An ageing workforce.
• A rapid growth in the number of persons with
physical disabilities.
• More financially well-appointed and wealthy senior
citizens ready to enjoy their third age and to spend
money on products securing and enhancing
wealth, safety, security and not forgetting
entertainment and communications needs.

10. HA & AAL
AAL – Ambient Assisted
Living
HA – Home Automation
DOMOCASA
• From the present to the future
– Technologies – Users
– Perspectives – Exploitation
– Challenges – Properties
– Developments – Etc…
– Business
– Barriers

11. Home Automation
• Home automation* may designate an emerging practice of increased
automation of household appliances and features in residential dwellings,
particularly through electronic means…
• Possible Classification in six function domains**
Electronics
Automation Informatics
Telecommunication
Comfort Energy Saving Meccanics
Well being Building Industry
Person Architecture
Home Security …
Communication
Person Security
* Wikipedia definition
** G. Del Zanna, M. Malavasi, and G. Vaccari, “Manuale illustrato per la domotica ad uso sociale”, Tecniche Nuove

12. AAL context
• “Ambient Assisted Living” (AAL) denotes concepts, products and services
that interlink and improve new technologies and social systems, with the
aim of enhancing the quality of life for all people in all stages of their lives.
• AAL could be best translated as “intelligent systems of a specific
assistance for a better and safer life in the home environment”.

13. AAL vs HA
Automation
Comfort Energy Saving
Well being
Person
Home Security Communication
Person Security
• AAL has concepts wider than HA.
• AAL is referred to specific applications and needs of users.

14. Methodological Approach
1. Setting the scene
• Identification of AAL application domains and technology axis
• State of the Art overview per domain and technology axis
2. 1st level analysis
• Plotting visionary scenarios
• Pruning
• Identification of the necessary enabling technologies
3. 2nd level analysis
• Identification of current and future barriers to development
• Drawing “rough” roadmaps of enabling technologies
4. Merging and Consolidation
• Drawing Scenario roadmaps
• Merging Scenario roadmaps into Domain roadmaps
• Exploring synergies and cross-contamination and
consolidating AAL roadmap

15. AAL4Persons
• AAL for health, rehabilitation and care
– Chronic disease management
– Biorobotics for neuro-rehabilitation
– Multi-disciplinary care teams
• Impairments and monitoring
– Motor disabilities
• Personal activity management and monitoring
– Physical and mental activity
• Personal and home safety and security
• Activities of Daily Life oriented support
• Other common activities
– Shopping
– eat and drink
– social interaction and communication

16. AAL@community
• Social inclusion
– Participation in community activities
– Creativity, hobbies and sports
– Cultural and experience exchanges
• Entertainment and leisure
– Training the brain
– Exercise and gaming
• Mobility
– Supporting individual physical mobility
– Driving
– Public transport

17. AAL@work
• Background
– Work ability
– Employers’ attitudes to older workers
– Training in and for the workplace
– Issues of work-life balance
• Needs of older workers in the workspace
• Access to working space
• Assuring environmental working conditions
• Support for working
• Prevention of diseases and injuries
• Safety and health regulations

18. Enabling technologies
and functions
1. Sensing
2. Reasoning
3. Acting
4. Interacting
5. Communicating
http://www.aaliance.eu

19. Sensing (1)
• In AAL applications, sensing is expected to take place in anything and
anywhere: in- or on-body, in- or on- appliances or in the environment
(home, outdoors, in vehicles, public spaces, etc.).
• Smart sensors endow a network interface, a processor and a memory.
• Applications:
– Sensors for safety and security in the environments
– Sensors for monitoring persons
– Sensor networks
– Low power and sustainable sensors

20. Sensing (2)
Applications Enabling Technologies
Detection,
Faster Multimodal Interoperable
authentication
fingerprint ID Biometry and certificated ID
and surveillance.
Non invasive measurement Wireless
Tele-monitoring of External
and sensing systems Implanted
patient status Biomarkers
(movement, cardiac, respiration,…) biomarkers
Internet connected sensors
Sensor network
and actuators
Sensor technologies for
indoor navigation and
localization
Camera with object
Human state Biologically inspired
Sensors detection, classification,
detection sensor-actuator integration
recognition
2015 2020 2025

21. Reasoning (1)
• Knowledge about the activities of the user and the current situation in this
environment from low-level sensor data (daily activities and situations,
emergency situations, user’s mid-term and long-term behavior).
Emergency situations:
1) Helplessness/lying on the floor
2) Indicators of falls
3) Motionlessness
• Models 4) Critical values in vital parameters
• Situations
Activities of daily living:
• Behaviours 1) Sleeping
2) Toilet usage
• Activity / behaviour recognition 3) Personal hygiene
4) Preparation of meals
• Reasoning process
Motion:
1) Occupancy of rooms
2) Locomotion
3) Quality and quantity of motion
Psychosocial behavior:
1) Going out
2) Meeting people
3) Communication

22. Reasoning (2)
Applications Enabling Technologies
Self adaptive model
Static and dynamic User model interrelated
Model: User including neuro-
Information with context model
psychological models
Model: Context Environment, Objects Model evolution Semantic context fusion
Integrated ontology
Model: System Adaptive models Organic systems model
driven models
Separate domain
Model: Domain Model evolution Inter-domain models
models
2015 2020 2025

23. Reasoning (3)
Applications Enabling Technologies
Gesture, emotion, Activity Online activity Fine-grained online activity
activity classification recognition recognition and monitoring
Gesture, expression
recognition
Recognition of critical Prevention of critical
Situations Situation awareness
situations situations
Integrated
Integration of Reasoning
Reasoning Optimized approaches multi-approach
and Simulation
reasoning
2015 2020 2025

24. Acting (1)
• Systems and services, which proactively act for assisting, monitoring
and providing well-being of elderly or not sufficient people in an
assisted environment.
– Service and companion robots
– Robots for outdoor applications
– Neuro-rehabilitation and prosthetic robots
– Smart environments

25. Acting (2)
Robotic platforms
Vision
Humanoid Robots Software Robots
Prof. Sang-Rok Oh – Korean Institute of Science and Technology

26. Acting (3)
• Smart environments will proactively assist people and will be
personalized in response to the occupant’s presence and behaviour and to
the normal activities related to work, education, entertainment or
healthcare.
– Integration of automation, security, comfort, communication, energy
– Recognition, awareness situations
– Pervasive distribution of intelligence and sensing throughout the home
environment
– Internet-connected sensors and actuators (also cognitive robotics)
– Exploitation of WSNs capabilities
– House robotic appliances

27. Acting (4)
– Mechatronic technologies for AAL, including operative and wearable robot for
neuro-rehabilitation and assistive purposes.
• Operational machines for upper and lower limbs
• Exoskeleton-like machine
• Prosthetic robots

28. Acting (5)
Applications Enabling Technologies
Innovative
Human musculoskeletal New strengthened
Actuators micro-macro
System-based actuators bio-artificial muscles
actuators
Under-actuated robotic
devices
Developing high-complexity
Human motion Human inspired Whole body human
and fully bio-inspired
control strategies robotic features motion control theories
robotic limbs
Back-drivable Patient’s stiffness Patient’s stiffness and
Mechanical design under-actuated dependent Kinematics dependent
mechanisms back-drivability back-drivability
Operational machines Exoskeleton-like
Rehabilitation robots for upper and lower machine for upper
limbs and lower limbs
2015 2020 2025

29. Acting (6)
– Service and companion robots. Adaptive Robotic Servant in
Intelligent Homes. Objectives in this application area are identified as:
• time saving in daily repetitive work;
• having a companion and a servant/assistant;
• personal robots adaptation to individual needs;
• exercising robots;
• medical support;
• reaching high acceptance by inexperienced users;
• 24-hour service in household environments;
• robots in environments dangerous to humans;
• mobility;
• incremental development of robots.

30. Acting (7)
– Service robots for outdoor applications:
• Urban hygiene
• Transportation
• Support at mobility
SmartCane
DustBot
Walker
Robot Chair

31. Acting (8)
Applications Enabling Technologies
Reliable map-based Intension estimation Reliable learning-based
Navigation navigation and -based selection of navigation in unstructured
obstacle avoidance destination environments
Supervised
Fetch and carry Autonomous manipulation
Manipulation manipulation of partially
visible objects of unknown objects
known objects
Autonomous manipulation
of known objects
Robot for simple ADL Cognitive (humanoids) assistive robots
Robotic support
support in structured for enhanced ADL support
for ADLs
environments in unstructured environments
Biorobotic assistant for mobility
Robotic support (Modular) Robotic
(robotic suites and wearable robots)
for mobility assistant for mobility
2015 2020 2025

32. Interacting (1)
• Human beings and machines will be surrounded by intelligent interfaces
supported by computing and networking technology in everyday objects.
– Initiative
– Design process
– Awareness
– Situation
– Modality
– Connectivity

33. Interacting (2)
Applications Enabling Technologies
Autonomous intelligent
User initiative, Mixed initiative,
Initiative agents and service
Adaptable interfaces Self-adaptive interfaces
robots
Co-creation of portable
Design process
intentional interfaces
Adaptation and learning,
Predefined factors and Social and emotional
Awareness profiling and
reasoning awareness
stereotyping
Avatar robots,
Local (touch) Rich integration through
Modality Brain-computer
screen-based distributed objects
interfaces
Federated devices,
Standalone devices,
Connectivity Scalable contents Automatic adaptation
Wireless charging
Robust media
2015 2020 2025

34. Communicating (1)
• In AAL systems, infrastructures and devices are becoming pervasive, with
an increasing number of distributed devices that can communicate
between themselves as well as with centralized services.
Public area
– Connectivity and protocols
– Network Local or home
– Understanding data
Personal or body
– Dynamic composition of systems and services
Internet of People
Communication Era
1900 - 2010
Internet of Things
Service Era Internet of Presence
2010 - 2030 Virtual Presence Era
2030 

35. Main Achievements
Community Building/Awareness
 setting-up a network of more than 50 organisations, involving companies as
technology providers and systems integrators, service providers, research
organisations and user associations
 increase awareness of new AAL technologies (e.g. the AALIANCE Malaga
conference in March 2010)
Policy Recommendations
 publication of policy recommendations in the field of Ambient Assisted Living – in
cooperation with representatives of the AAL Joint Programme
Roadmapping/Strategic Research Agenda
 Publication of the 1st Roadmap and Strategic Research Agenda on IT technologies
for Ambient Assisted Living that aim to contributing to a coordinated European
R&D approach
Standardisation Requirements
 Definition of standardisation requirements

36. ALLIANCE Conference
AALIANCE Conference
Málaga, 11th – 12th March 2010
Participants:
Call for papers:
Poster Exhibition:

37. “Ageing Well. How technologies can help”
European Workshop
Salón Avante. Barcelona, 3rd June 2010
AALIANCE
Ambient Assisted Living Roadmap
Technology and Innovation for Ageing Well
Mari Satur Torre
Fundación Vodafone
mari-satur.torre@vodafone.com