1. Florence 1
JL-1
FP7-2009-248730
Florence
Overview
Melvin Isken
OFFIS Institute of Information Technology, Oldenburg, Germany
University of Oldenburg
melvin.isken@uni-oldenburg.de
13/03/2014
Rovereto

2. Florence 2
JL-2
Ø FP7-Project
Ø Feb 1st, 2010 – Jan 31st 2013
Ø Partners
§ Philips Electronics B.V. (NL)
§ NEC Europe LTD. (GB)
§ OFFIS E.V. (DE)
§ Stichting Novay (NL)
§ Telefonica Investigacion y Desarrollo SA
(ES)
§ Tecnalia (ES)
§ Agencia de Servicios Sociales y
Dependencia de Andalucia (ES)
§ Wany Robotics SA (FR)
Florence Project

3. Florence 3
JL-3
Ø Improve well-being of
elderly (and relatives),
efficiency in care
Ø general-purpose low cost
mobile robot platform (off-
the-shelf)
Ø robot as connecting element
between stand alone AAL
services and elderly
Ø User acceptance as key
element
Florence Goals

4. Florence 4
JL-4
Ø Home interface scenario
§ Intelligent doorbell
§ Control of windows (temperature control, warnings)
Ø Fall reaction scenario
§ Integration of panic button
Ø Hardware
§ FS20 temperature sensor, window opener, panic button
Ø Software
§ Content Management Framework provided by NEC
§ Bridge CMF - ROS
Florence – Home automation

5. Florence 5
JL-5
Ø Don‘t rely on specific hardware
Ø Proprietary CMF
§ Legal issues (IP agreement)
§ No sources available
§ Buggy integration of sensors
Ø Use of open source software / hardware to decrease
system costs
§ E.g. OpenHAB
§ Legal issues of reusage
Ø Service acceptance good when benefit clear
§ especially health related: fall reaction, telepresence
Florence – Results, Open questions

6. Florence 6
JL-6
Ø Deployment of service robotic system in real world
environment not yet usable
§ Obstacles
• Doors
• Carpets
• Stairs
§ Autonomous runtime (battery)
Ø (These slides are intended to show some issues that can
arise - not everything went wrong within Florence J )
Florence – Results, Open questions