saapho: active aging services for the elderly
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The following presentation is a compilation of the slides presented at the Forum 2014 TIC Salut (Girona) , MIHealth Forum 2014 (Barcelona) and internal seminars at Barcelona Digital. This document tries to briefly describe the main objectives, technical aspects and results obtained from the European R+D project SAAPHO (AAL-2010-3-35). SAAPHO aims to support Active Ageing by assisting seniors to participate in the self-serve society preserving and enhancing independence and dignity through the application of innovative ICT-based solutions. In particular SAAPHO is focused on boosting accessibility to a diverse number of healthcare, participation and security services by means of easy-to-use and easy-to-configure user interfaces. For further information go to: http://www.shaapho-aal.eu We want to acknowledge the MINETUR agency (Spain); VDI/VDE Innovation + Technik GmbH (Germany); Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology (Slovenia); Vinnova (Sweden) and the European Community AAL Joint Programme, SAAPHO project reference aal-2010-3-035TRANSCRIPT
17th SEPTEMBER 2014
Xavier Rafael-Palou
Barcelona Digital Technology Centre
BDIGITAL: Expanding Boundaries
SAAPHO a 3-years EU project founded by AAL (Ambient Assisted Living) composed by partners from Spain, Germany, Sweden and Slovenia
ObjectiveImprove quality of life of the elderly living alone at their own home.
Why?- Quality of life decreases as people get older loneliness, illnesses but
also lose of independence, activity, communication- People with low quality of life requires more care- Not enough public resources to take care of all population over sixty- Private health-care is not financially affordable by most seniors- Currently neither public or private health solutions cover all elderly
needs - IT solutions aims to be an alternative to support elderly to enjoy
their age.
SAAPHO
SAAPHO • Complex open problem -> users with especial accessibility needs,
difficulties on deploying at end user homes (unstable/poor internet connection, fails/disruption on wireless protocols, complex devices to configure), privacy issues on monitoring, massive data, ubiquitous computing…
SAAPHO is an integrated and accessible IT system composed by a set of intelligent services to provide to the elderly a
healthier, secure and participative life from their homes.
SAAPHO I. Solution
SAAPHO
- Incremental and iterative methodology- User Centred Design - Semester presential plenary meetings- 3 prototypes (Clear roadmaps, strict deadlines and milestones)- Bi-weekly online technical meetings- Others: Research visits, Integration technical meetings, testing
sessions, presential installations, video- tutorials, video recording sessions
II. Methodology
SAAPHO III. Main System Requirements
Decoupled architecture. Independent but interoperable components that easily enable update, replace or even aggregate new ones.
Open system. Generic interfaces and technologies compatible with diverse communication protocols, services and sensors from the market.
User data privacy. Secure transmission protocols and data cyphering to provide a secure and trustable environment.
Low Cost. Wired and proprietary technologies replaced by open source alternatives and wireless protocols (e.g. Wi-Fi, Z-Wave, Bluetooth) Market Oriented. SAAPHO works with available EC products in the market.
Touchable & Personalised interface. SAAPHO seniors interact with multi –touchable user interface that offers direct interaction experience and interfaces adapted to the accessibility needs of these users allowing a better technology acceptance to reduce initial barriers.
SAAPHO IV. Architecture
SAAPHO User Interface
- Developed to be delivered through Android tablets given their low cost, portability, direct interaction and ease of use
- usability and accessibility, the graphic user interface holds homogenous and easy to use screens by means of simple to recognize icons, texts and colors
- The tablet application also has a settings section to personalize features (such as size and volume) and a help section with video-tutorials of the system
SAAPHO Middleware
- Securely interconnects the sensor devices and services. - Main components:
- Traffic dispatcher that handles the requests of information from the user interface and from the services.
- Security manager which controls the session IDs to uniquely identify each component and UUIDs that identify the users.
- User interface recommender creates personalised messages with information coming from services considering user language, name, and gender.
SAAPHO Health Services
SAAPHO provides intelligent health care services to assist older people in activities related to the health:
- Real time feedback generation service- Historical summary calculation service - Recommendation generation service
SAAPHO Social services
SAAPHO offers services to communicate and to be informed
- Social services provided are photo sharing, personalised news, video-conference, email, instant message and social notifications
- Social data is collected, anonymised and analysed under previous authorisation to enhance user experience and promote communication proactivity.
SAAPHO Security services
SAAPHO ensures the safety and well-being of the users.• CE marked sensors (gas, smoke, panic button) and ambient parameters (motion, temperature, humidity, luminosity and doors).• Home Wireless Sensor Communication with central unit (Collector) using Z-Wave.• Smart Safety gateway to collect and analyse data for detection of emergencies and abnormal situations.
SAAPHO V. Deployment
SAAPHO VI. Results
- First and second year prototype were easy to use according to usability test parameters of effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction.
- Results from final prototype indicates that SAAPHO was very well accepted among the participants (Spain and Slovenia); easy to use; most of the offered services were extremely useful; responded to the older people’ needs and promoted active ageing.
VII. Conclusions
- Requirements from > 200 seniors- Final prototype installed at 6 Homes
from 2 countries (Spain & Slovenia)- 2 months of collected real data- Elderly impressions :
- Enthusiastic with final result- Interfaces easy to use & intuitive- Services were very applicable for
their daily life- Elderly is willing to have /pay for a solution like SAAPHO at their
place
SAAPHO
- SAAPHO project has reached its final stage with a successful prototype close to the market
- Looking for further collaborations to keep improving the system, deploying it at more places and eventually reaching a commercial product
Thanks for your attention.
(SAAPHO, Technical Team Leader)
More information at:
http:\\www.saapho.com
SAAPHO
Acknowledgements to allSAAPHO TEAM
Specially:
Mentoring and support
- Felip Miralles, Guillem Serra
SAAPHO Management and organization:
Jesus Fernandez
Principal Bdigital SAAPHO research contributors:- Stefan Dauwalder, Marc Girones, Jose A. Cordero, Eloi Casals
E-Health department and colleagues
Joan Protasion, Javi Bautista and former SAAPHO contributors
Pierluigi Casale, Sergi Torrelles, Rafa, Cristina and Arnau
SAAPHO