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Open architecture for Accessible Ser- vices Integration and S tandardisation

OASIS – Open architecture for Accessible Services Integration and Standardization

Project Presentation

Deliverable No. (use the number indicated on technical annex)

D5.1.3

SubProject No. SP5 SubProject Title Horizontal activities

Workpackage No. W5.1 Workpackage Title Project management

Activity No. A5.1.1-A5.1.3 Activity Title Management activities

Authors (per company, if more than one company provide it together)

M. Panou, E. Bekiaris (CERTH/HIT)

Status (F: final; D: draft; RD: revised draft):

D

File Name: OASIS D5.1.3-v1.doc

Project start date and duration 01 January 2008, 48 Months


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Version History table Version no. Dates and comments

1 8 April 2008

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2nd version, taking into account the quality reviewers comments. Ready for submission to the EC.


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Table of Contents Executive summary.....................................................................................................................1 1. Introduction.........................................................................................................................2

Ageing population...................................................................................................................2 ICT and the elderly .................................................................................................................2

2. What is OASIS....................................................................................................................3 Target user group ....................................................................................................................4

3. OASIS objectives ...............................................................................................................6 Social Objectives.....................................................................................................................6 Scientific and Technological Objectives.................................................................................6 Economical Objectives ...........................................................................................................8

4. Short description of the sub-projects ..................................................................................9 Sub-Project 1: Open Reference Architecture, User Interface, Platform and Tools ................9 Sub-Project 2: Independent Living Applications..................................................................10 Sub-Project 3: Autonomous Mobility and Smart Workplaces Applications ........................12 Sub-Project 4: Integration, Pilot sites and devices................................................................13 Sub-Project 5: Horizontal activities ......................................................................................14

5. Expected impacts ..............................................................................................................16 Societal impact ......................................................................................................................16 Economical impact................................................................................................................17

6. OASIS Consortium ...........................................................................................................18 Annex A: Contractors list .........................................................................................................19 Annex B: Short project presentation.........................................................................................20 List of Figures Figure 1: OASIS targeted domains .............................................................................................4 Figure 2: Interrelation of OASIS subprojects ............................................................................9 Figure 3: Iterative development of the OASIS hyper-ontology...............................................10 Figure 4: Nutritional advisor architecture and elements ...........................................................11 Figure 5: OASIS pilot sites .......................................................................................................14 List of Tables Table 1: Principle features of mobility services for different modes........................................13 Table 2: List of OASIS partners (full and short name) and their country. ...............................19


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Abbreviations List

AmI AMSWA

Ambient Intelligence Autonomous Mobility and Smart Workplaces Applications

COF Common Ontological Framework DSRT Dedicated short Range Transportation ETA Estimated time of Arrival HCI Human Computer Interaction ICT ILA

Information Communications Technology Independent Living Applications

ITV Interactive Television PDA Personal Digital Assistant QoS Quality of Service SME Small-Medium Enterprise SP Sub-Project UI WSDL

User Interface Web Services Description Language


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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Barriers to independence are numerous. Frail physical and/or mental health, housing conditions, lack of transportation facilities, community information and communication services and low income levels are the main ones for elderly people 1. OASIS is an Integrated Project with the scope to revolutionise the interoperability, quality, breadth and usability of services for all daily activities of the elderly. More specifically, OASIS targets to utilise ICT and other key technologies in order to provide holistic services to the elderly to support their physical and psychological independence, stimulate their social or psychological engagement and foster their emotional well being. In doing so, OASIS thus addresses key areas of their activities encompassing: independent living and socialising, autonomous mobility, and flexible work-ability. The current Deliverable aims to present the OASIS project concept and objectives, as well as its expected results, providing also an overview of the planned work under its 4-years duration. The first chapter of the Deliverable (Chapter 1) is the introduction, presenting the main problems of the elderly people in relation to ICT and their everyday activities, which have an immediate, negative effect to their independent living. Chapter 2 describes the Project and defines the target user groups and the overall stakeholders considered and supported by the OASIS solution. In Chapter 3 the objectives of the project are presented, which are clustered in social, scientific, technological and economical. Chapter 4 describes shortly each of the five subprojects, which are:

- Sub-project 1: Open Reference Architecture, User Interface, Platform and Tools - Sub-project 2: Independent Living Applications - Sub-project 3: Autonomous Mobility and Smart Workplaces Applications - Sub-project 4: Integration, Pilot sites and devices - Sub-project 5: Horizontal activities

Chapters 5 provides the main expected impacts and Chapter 6 gives some information on the project Consortium and the contact data of the key persons in the project (Coordinator and Technical Manager). Finally, there are 2 Annexes at the end of the document: in Annex A the Contractors List is included and in Annex B a short project presentation of 2 pages providing a brief but consistent summary of the project is provided.

1 User needs in ICT research for independent Living. EUR 22532 Institute for prospective Technological studies , European Commission.



1. INTRODUCTION There exist two main trends in the 21 century. One is the rapid development of ICT, which has affected all areas of life of people and radically changed the way- people live and tackle many activities. People have entered into digital times. The other is the trend of aging population, which has attracted attention from government as well as business firms. Potential business opportunities exist exactly at the crossing point of these two trends.

Ageing population As effect of the increased longevity and reduced birth-rate, the older population is growing at a considerably faster rate than that of the world’s total population. Currently, the annual growth of the older population (1.9%) is significantly higher than that of the total population (1.02%). In the near future, the difference between those two rates is expected to become even larger, as the baby boom generation starts ageing in many parts of the world, including Europe.

In absolute terms, the number of older persons has tripled over the last 50 years and will more than triple again over the next 50-year period to reach nearly 2 billion in 2050.

This rapid expansion in the older population affects practically all regions of the world and is increasing. By 2020 the 65+ population will represent the 25% of the overall population in Europe. The ageing of the population is changing also the workforce scenario in Europe: currently the ratio between working people and retired ones is equal to 4:1; analysts expect a drastic reduction of this ratio up to 2:1 in 2050. Healthcare and Pension systems are struggling to cope with additional demand also in consideration that age and disability are strongly correlated: around a fifth of people over 50 experience severe vision, hearing and dexterity problems. .

ICT and the elderly The profound, pervasive and endur ing consequences of ageing population present enormous challenges as well as enormous opportunities for Information and Communication Technology.

A typical example is the Internet that – according to many analysts – has become an enabler of social inclusion.

Social isolation is a common problem for senior people. Fortunately, the Internet offers new tools to address the problem. Internet users acknowledge that going on line is a good and convenient way to contact the outside world. Senior people can walk out of loneliness, through sending e-mails to family members and friends all over the world, chatting in forums to exchange feelings and ideas, etc. Indeed, many senior people are already benefiting from the Internet. In USA the senior people using Internet represent the 54% in the age range of 50-70 and 34% in the 70+ population.



2. WHAT IS OASIS

Frail physical and mental health are the main barriers that can lead a person to lose his/her independence. Two options arise here. First to provide aids to mitigate the loss of independence and second to empower the conditions that make a person to continue being independent. This second approach is the one adopted by OASIS.

OASIS aims to utilise ICT and other key technologies in order to provide holistic services to the elderly to support their physical and psychological independence, stimulate their social or psychological engagement and foster their emotional well being. In doing so, OASIS thus addresses key areas of their activities encompassing: independent living and socialising, autonomous mobility and flexible work-ability.

The OASIS Project has the aim to revolutionise the interoperability, quality, breadth and usability of services for all daily activities of the elderly, by developing and deploying:

• A new Architectural Framework, called “COF-Common Ontological Framework” or “OASIS hyper-ontology”. The hyper-ontology is open, modular, holistic, easy-to-use and standards-abiding and allows the interoperability, seamless connectivity and sharing of content between not only single services but also competing ontologies of the same or different application domains.

• An Open Reference Architecture (also called ‘OASIS Platform’), composed by the COF and its support tools, both available as open source, that allow the automatic or semi-automatic connection of existing and emerging ontologies and services to the OASIS Architectural Framework.

• The OASIS System, composed of the new Open Reference Architecture, enriched by an AmI Framework (a multi-Agents platform) and the Interaction Platform (allowing automatic UI self-creation for new connected services and self adaptation to the device used, the context of use and the user needs and preferences).

• A wide range of connected applications (over 12 different service types), all integrated within the OASIS System, and interoperating in integrated scenarios and Use Cases, covering the needs of the elderly and their caregivers.

• A Pilots test -bed, consisting of 4 sites Europe-wide (in North, Central, South and East- Europe) and all potential test environments per site: Living Labs for technical verification and iterative development, Sheltered Homes for assisted living and user communities related real-world applications and Independent Living, namely private homes, for real world applications. Hundreds of end users will test the OASIS System and connected applications.

OASIS is not a single system or service to compete on the market with the rest. Although there are over 33 single exploitable products and services addressing the needs of the OASIS target user group, its most valuable and important “product” is the open Reference Architecture, notably the open source Common Ontological Framework and related



Tools, which aim, through de facto and de jure standardization, to facilitate the connectivity and interoperability of applications in all relevant domains for the benefit of the elderly user.

Figure 1: OASIS targeted domains

OASIS target domains are:

• Independent Living Applications, including socialisation,

• Mobility Applications, • Smart Workplaces Applications

Target user group The main target user groups of OASIS are elderly people who experience mild cognitive and physical impairments due to ageing. These people have the competence, in most cases, to lead independent and active lives, but, are at risk of exclusion due to the slight cognitive and physical deteriorations that they are experiencing, as well as the complexity and lack of utility, accessibility and usability of ICT. The OASIS main end-user group, can be broken down into 3 sub-groups as follows:

• ‘Young’ Elderly: ages 55-65, i.e. people who are healthy and, in most cases, can still lead busy and active lives, but who have just started to experience slight deteriorations in their quality of life due to ageing.

• Elderly: ages 65-75, i.e. people who are healthy, but are more likely to experience mild cognitive and physical problems due to ageing.

• ‘Old Elderly’: ages 75+, i.e. people who are very likely to experience cognitive and physical deteriorations due to ageing.



The above groups are supported through a multitude of stakeholders that are duly considered and supported by the OASIS System, such as:

• Family members • Informal care-givers (i.e. volunteers, neighbours, etc.) • Formal care-givers (both inpatient and outpatient) • Public / private Social security service providers and insurance companies • Health care and emergency support service providers • Home automation service providers • Leisure and re-creation service providers • Infotainment service providers • Telematic service providers • Elderly associations • National, local and regional authorities • Policy makers

The various user and stakeholder groups are represented within OASIS consortium and pilot sites.



3. OASIS OBJECTIVES

The main objectives of the OASIS Project can be classified in social, scientific & technological and economical. They are listed below per area.

Social Objectives a. To coordinate and support a set of innovative applications to foster the independent living of the elderly and delay his/her usual aging negative health and quality of life effects. It will include different techniques for supporting the elderly, such as monitoring, coaching, motivation, action compliance, etc. b. To attack the problem of elderly users’ social isolation, by creating enhanced web and collaborative web experiences involving elderly user communities. c. To coordinate and support a set of innovative applications to enable the autonomous mobility and enhance the work-ability of the elderly, in order to keep them really integrated in the social life and not live marginally in their own “island” or “golden cage”. Offered services will be personalised, adapted to the profile of the users, to their preferences and to their health status. They will include: Independent Living Applications (ILA) such as Nutritional advisor, Activity coach, Brain trainer, Social relationship, Health monitoring and Environmental control (see a brief description in Chapter 4 – Sub Project SP2); Autonomous mobility and smart workplaces applications (AMSWA) such as Elderly-friendly transport, Elderly-friendly route guidance, Personal Mobility, Tourism – leisure and Smart Workplaces (see a brief description in Chapter 4 – Sub Project SP3).

Scientific and Technological Objectives OASIS aims to provide relevant innovations over the state-of-the art in areas such as : Open Reference Architecture and Ontologies, Intelligent Agents and AMI Framework, Wearable sensors for elderly health and activity monitoring, In-home and Domotic Sensors, - Independent Living Applications and Autonomous Mobility and Smart Workplaces Applications.



The OASIS development will provide an open source complementary solution to the direction now being pursued in the Semantic Web approach to ontology design: whereas in the Sematic Web re-usability is pursued across open ontologies, the OASIS solution will show how re-usability can be achieved following the tried and tested results of decades of practical experience in software engineering. Crucially, the open Semantic Web approach entails that small local modules may have global side-effects (for example, by changing class membership); in contrast, the OASIS hyper-ontology will demonstrate how interoperability can be achieved within strict modularity. Side-effects in software design are a source of major system instability, development and maintenance costs—avoiding them for ontology design will therefore be a major innovative contribution of considerable benefit.

In Intelligent Agents and AMI Framework OASIS introduces architecture concepts already presented mainly in B2B computing (e.g. Web Services) for application in software agent technology. Putting the effort in standardizing the agent functionality descrip tion in a publicly agreed language (as it is done with Web Services and WSDL for example) is at least an interesting research direction towards combining the flexibility and effectiveness of agent computing with the interoperability capabilities of Web Services. Since heterogeneity in software systems is all about flexibility and interoperability we strongly believe to achieve both developing based on the aforementioned ideas. In Independent Living Applications and in the Autonomous Mobility and Smart Workplaces Applications, OASIS – taking into account all previous researches – proposes an innovative approach of integration of many applications through the use of a common set interconnected ontologies i.e. not on single service layer but on the ontology layer. OASIS will represent a new paradigm in the service area, offering the combined benefits of “Linux- like” open development and updated framework with a “Wikipedia- like” expansion policy, which however is controlled, promoted and updated by the OASIS Industrial Forum even beyond the lifetime of the project. Moreover OASIS aspires to advance the state of the art in the field of Smart Workplaces environments and Work-ability of the elderly in directions such as support and flexible working models, secure access to any data required for work and smart workplace adapted to elderly needs. In Wearable Sensors and Activity Monitoring the most significant innovation in OASIS is the “multi sensor approach” performing a data fusion of various sensor inputs, combined with expert knowledge and individual user information in the framework of the OASIS hyperontology. As a result the elderly user obtains comprehensive individual information. In the context of Interfaces and Adaptive Systems OASIS aims to provide high quality, ambient user interfaces, by effectively addressing diversity in dimensions such as changing abilities due to ageing, categories of delivered services and applications and deployment computing-platforms and devices (i.e. PDAs, smartphones, desktops, laptops).



Economical Objectives Economical objectives include: a. To measure the users and key stakeholders of the OASIS applications and services to estimate their cost effectiveness and exploitation prospects. b. To make available the OASIS Open Reference Architecture and related tools as open source, following a “wikipedia- like” maintenance approach, thus enabling its further expansion and uptake by large industrial players and SMEs. c. To formulate business scenarios and exploitation plans that guarantee the market success and viability of OASIS applications and the promotion into standards of its reference architecture. ICT for ageing well can become a driver for jobs and growth and a successful lead market for Europe. The users of smart home applications is expected to triple by 2020, from 13 to 37 million people ; the users of products and services aimed at age-related impairment will reach 84 million people by 20202.

2 Ageing Well in the Information Society – EU Action Plan, 2008



4. SHORT DESCRIPTION OF THE SUB-PROJECTS

OASIS is composed of 5 SPs, interrelated as shown in the figure below.

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Sub-Project 1: Open Reference Architecture, User Interface, Platform and Tools Within SP1, the new innovative, open-ended reference architecture is built (called COF: Common Ontological Framework) for organising, maintaining and applying heterogeneous ontologies. This new architecture framework is aimed to achieve:

• Interoperability between different web services from the same or different application domains.

• Sharing of contextual information between different objects and services.

• Seamless connectivity between hardware, from hardware to service and from service to service.

In order to link existing and newly developed ontologies to this new hyper-ontology, efficient tools are needed, that will automate the process and support the service providers and developers in making their services OASIS-compliant, such as the ontology application graphical user interface and content connection tools, the necessary AMI framework and agents, the HCI interaction prototyping tool for UI self- adaptation and personalisation and,



finally, the instantiation of the overall architecture to the project applications. The reference architecture and tools will all be made available as open source for maximal impact on development practice.

The development of the hyper-ontology will follow an iterative process, as displayed below.

Figure 3: Iterative development of the OASIS hyper-ontology

Sub-Project 2: Independent Living Applications Usually elderly people are involved in a process involving frailty, functional, cognitive and muscular decline and possible loss of autonomy. This process can be postponed and mitigated if some changes in daily life, as nutrition, physical activity, mental training and social relationships, are adopted, thus, based on SP1, a wide number of applications is being connected to the new reference architecture, or developed according to it, in SP2 (and SP3). The connected applications serve as a proof of concept of the new reference architecture but incorporate also a wide set of innovations on their own right, in order to holistically satisfy the independent living and autonomous mobility needs of the elderly users. The set of services, are oriented to maintain the independence of the ageing persons by means of sharing of a common living context. The applications to be developed, are listed below: Nutritional Advisor ?t will deal with the personalization and adaptation of the recommendation and advices provided to the elder for improving his/her nutrition in a way that they can easily be put in practice and even become a part of his/her normal habits. The relevant application elements are shown beside.



Figure 4: Nutritional advisor architecture and elements

Activity Coach ?t will monitor, support and coach several physical activities of the elderly. One application is to monitor the activity of the user and to motivate him/her to perform for example some sport activities, aiming to reduce the age-related declines in the musculoskeletal and cardiovascular systems and to improve his/her mental health. The activity of the user is classified regarding the movement type and a quantitative activity measured is derived. The user obtains feedback and advices concerning his/her activity. Moreover, the health status during the sportive activity is taken into account, for example to prevent the user from exhausting him/herself. Another application is the support of rehabilitation exercises, for example due to a fracture. Brain and skills trainer ?t will promote, though different exercises and simulated scenarios, the mental health of persons. Using 3D based multimedia interactions systems, computer games, and other related technologies, the person will be immersed in a simulated scenario, to improve his/her skills in daily activities: shopping, transport, travelling, and many situations where he/she could feel frightened. On the other hand, a set of personalized exercises will maintain his/her memory and mental activities level. Thus, fundamental neuropsychological functions will be transferred into specific tasks (e.g. finding the way out of a virtual maze by following adaptable and scaleable cognitive clues). These different tasks assess the actual performance and functioning. The outcome serves as baseline for a specific training plan, with different difficulty levels, which can be adapted to the individual performance level to create an effective training. Part of the brain trainer is also the Stress Management tool with the aim to enhance peoples’ stress management capabilities.



Social relation and recreation platform This application relates to the building of a social community platform, at different levels, in order to fight the social isolation of elderly people living alone and to facilitate new collaborative experiences, including those related to sharing or discussing with other users of other OASIS services (i.e. brain trainer or nutritional advisor or …). The platform for social relationships will be composed by a set of tools for improving the social aspects of the elderly, including e- learning systems, virtual communities, collaborative working and social web trends: blogs, photoblogs, videoblogs, instant messaging, etc. Health monitoring This application will go beyond the monitoring of the health status, allowing the management of the elderly people’s health and the assurance of their optimal health status while realising the rest of their daily lives activities. The Health Monitoring system will be distributed in several modules: the sensors module, the terminal that will be carried by the elder person and the health applications server. Environmental control Controlling the house is one of the more demanded applications when some physical decline comes. Domotics applications will allow the elderly to be confident in his/her house and contribute to the comfort of the person. The knowledge of the status of the comfort parameters inside the home (temperature, humidity, window opening,..) will allow the tuning of the use of the others applications. Relevant OASIS work focuses on the integration of technologies, products and services in the domestic environment. Relevant functionalities, considered within OASIS to be incorporated in this application, are security, energy saving, additional functions, comfort and entertainment. All the above applications will be re-evaluated and specified in the UC’s, with the active participation of elderly users and key stakeholders.

Sub-Project 3: Autonomous Mobility and Smart Workplaces Applications This SP promotes activities to “push” the elderly user out of his/her home, however guaranteeing safety, security and comfort. More specifically, new functionalities will be provided, that can give the elderly users more independency and safety in their trips, by easing their driving, avoiding the exposure to risks and accelerating the emergency rescue procedures. Relevant research issues and services in OASIS are highlighted in the table below:



• Pull mechanism forinfo on trips• Wide choice of devices for info•. Integration withsocial/health info

Route map and writtendescriptionBooking of parking places

• Trip booking• Info print-out in easy to readversion• Pre trip alerts

• Full range of trip info/timetables via PC, PDA, mobile, etc and print-outs• Intermodal info• Pre-tripalerts

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• Special attention toelderly-friendlypresentation• Standardised ‘easy to recognise’ interface• Urgent info sent with‘push’ mechanism

• Traffic updates• Automaticrerouting• Parking placenavigation

• ETA calculation• Onboardbooking servicefor next trip

• Dynamic info on arrival times• Change of service• Service info: vocal/visual• Intermodal info tosupport changes

ON TRIP

• Creation of profilesto facilitate info supply• Cross-servicedata security (protection)

• Historical data (routing/typicaldestinations) • Billing (parking)

• Automatedbilling of trips (ifdesired)• Historical data

• Historical data on preferences, destinations, etc

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Car travelDRTPublic transport

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Table 1: Principle features of mobility services for different modes

A new route guidance prototype, incorporating elderly cognitive needs and behavioural patterns, will be developed. The route guidance will consider special requirements of elderly people regarding safety, easiness to walk or drive and leisure. Appropriate mobility services will be offered to the elderly, including journey planning and support while driving (assistance navigation, extended emergency call and tele-diagnostics, driver monitoring and comfort), accessible tourism, leisure and social activities. Furthermore, the need of older people to remain active in the business domain can be supported both while at home, at their business as part timers, or anywhere in between, as mobile users. Sub-Project 4: Integration, Pilot sites and devices The individual applications are integrated in terms of user interfaces, services, devices and telecommunication networks. The resulting integrated systems and services are tested in 4 sites Europewide (UK – north, Germany – central, Italy – south and a combined eastern site in Greece, Romania and Bulgaria). This is the ultimate step to evaluate the overall success of the reference architecture and tools as well as each individual application and to get the required data to optimise them within the project and beyond. Applications will support all types of mobile devices (tablet PC, PDA, smart-phone, automotive device, ITV, infokiosk, …) and all types of environments (living labs, sheltered homes, private homes, two car demonstrators, public transport, DSRT, etc.). The pilots will differ in their functionality and size, depending on the availability of infrastructure, users and environment. The following types of pilots will be created:

• Living Labs (as controlled environments), • Sheltered Homes, • Independent Living Homes, and • In Car/Transport infrastructures.



The following figure presents the infrastructure to be used per pilot site.

Figure 5: OASIS pilot sites

Sub-Project 5: Horizontal activities SP5 incorporates the necessary support activities to ensure proper realisation of the rest SPs, such as management, dissemination, marketing and exploitation (including business scenarios and cost-effectiveness analysis) of the project concept and results, ethical and gender issues protection, training and standardisation. Training is needed in order to familiarize the partners with the technology requirements and in this way to provide a smooth collaboration between the project partners. Another aim of the training activities is the training of the users of the OASIS outcomes. The training activities in OASIS project will be organized according to the specific groups needs. Within the standardisation activities, all existing and emerging standards will be identified so as to be taken into account by OASIS development, but also strategies and plans will be defined for the dynamic introduction of the OASIS Reference Architecture and its key elements into standardisation actions and incentives.



As user friendliness and acceptability is a top priority for the project, a “user centred-design” approach is followed along the service and application development. Tested iteratively and thoroughly by hundreds of end users, their caregivers and other stakeholders, the OASIS platform and applications will be optimised and submitted for standardisation by the purpose-established OASIS world-wide Industrial Forum.



5. EXPECTED IMPACTS The expected impact of the OASIS system is twofold : societal and economical.

Societal impact With the developed services for the elderly people, their personal independence and involvement in the society will be enhanced. The reasons for these statements are:

• OASIS enables the continuous preservation of the elderly’s well-being (and, hence, independent living) through the nutritional advisor, the activity coach and the brain and skills trainer.

• OASIS can adapt to the needs of the person and respond very quickly in case of emergencies using advanced accidents detection methods. The resulting timeliness of assistance and access to resources can also reduce the need for hospital admissions.

Furthermore, OASIS contributes to the effective mitigation of a number of ageing-related risks (insecurity, isolation, depression, etc.), which can lead to physical and mental decline.

• OASIS enables the development of numerous independent living services that provide to the elderly an increased feeling of security, control over their environment and comfort in the execution of daily activities. These services can extend significantly the time that the elderly live in the comfort of their own home – i.e. in a self-contained environment rather than having just a room and communal facilities in a care home. Furthermore, the stress management system further contributes to this goal.

• OASIS will enable numerous interoperable and context-aware services, enhancing the autonomous mobility of the elderly. These services will assist the elderly to maintain and increase the quality of their lives, both in and away from their homes. The smart workplaces application can offer financial independence to the elderly.

OASIS is contributing to active ageing by supporting socialisation efforts of the elderly through autonomous mobility, tourism and leisure services, while offering, in addition, the necessary user-friendly technological tools and services that improve the communication ability of the elderly with their families, relatives, friends, etc.

• The OASIS leisure and social activities support services help to bring the elderly together (physically), enabling them to share experiences, while also virtually connecting the elderly with friends, family and carers.

• The project’s elderly-friendly autonomous mobility services will provide the elderly with an accessible, easy-to-handle mobile environment while being away from home, offering to them opportunities for all types of mobility (both long- and short-range trip planning) and continued guidance.



In addition, the OASIS smart workplaces applications will have a positive impact of active ageing and full participation of the elderly into society, while covering the special requirements imposed by the ageing process. Also, without being intrusive, OASIS enables continuous health monitoring services, thus allowing health care personnel at hospitals and care institutions to seamlessly supervise, follow-up, treat, and monitor elderly people in their own homes, or within elderly homes. Older people will be able to live longer on their own, while in an emergency help can be called for immediately. Moreover, the OASIS open Reference Architecture will enable sharing of data and interoperability between various services (e.g. activity coach, nutritional advisor and health monitoring), thus enabling “integrated care processes for the ageing population”.

The user-centric approach of the OASIS applications, combined with their intuitive elderly-friendly design, minimises the intrusiveness of technology and offer users the opportunity to customise devices according to own needs and preferences. This customisation takes place through the user- and context- oriented adaptivity facilities of the OASIS framework and is facilitated by its AMI framework.

Economical impact The economic impact of the OASIS project for Europe is huge as the elderly market (i.e. products and services for independent living and home care) represents an enormous business, spread across sales of devices and infrastructure to software and services. The wide applicability of the OASIS Open Reference Architecture on a large range of independent living and mobility applications, in combination with the fact that the elderly population and its needs for care are constantly increasing, lead us to the safe assumption that the OASIS main outcome (COF and related tools), has a large economic potential.



6. OASIS CONSORTIUM The Consortium consists of 33 complementary partners from 12 countries, 2 of which are Newly Associated States (Romania, Bulgaria), and 2 are non-European (China, Mexico), thus ensuring a welcome spread of results. From the perspective of the end-user representation in OASIS, it is worth-noting that two umbrella-organisations are participating, with organisations-members all over Europe. They can thus guarantee wide coverage of cultures, customs, mentalities, and needs.

The OASIS consortium is in an excellent position to work towards the realisation of all of the target objectives related to ICT and Active Ageing, because all key actors are present, namely industries, telecommunication providers, industrial SMEs, Research centres, Universities, end-users organisations and an association of cities. Project Coordinator Mr. Silvio Bonfiglio FIMI Philips Via S. Banfi 1 21047 SARONNO - Italy Tel: +39-0296175237 Email: [email protected], url : http://www.fimi.philips.com Project Technical Manager Dr. Evangelos Bekiaris Centre for Research & Technology Hellas/ Hellenic Institute of Transport (CERTH/HIT) 6th km. Charilaou-Thermi Rd. 57001, Thermi, Thessaloniki, Greece Tel: +30-2310-498265, Fax: +30-2310-498269 or Posidonos 17, 17455, Athens, Greece Tel: +30-210-9853194, Fax: +30-210-9853193 E-mail: [email protected], Url: www.hit.certh.gr OASIS Project web site address: www.oasis-project.eu



ANNEX A: CONTRACTORS LIST Beneficiary Number

Beneficiary name Beneficiary short name

Country

1 PHILIPS FIMI s.r.l. PHILIPS Italy Centre for Research & Technology Hellas / Hellenic Institute of Transport

CERTH / HIT

2 Centre for Research & Technology Hellas / Informatics & Telematics Institute

CERTH / ITI Greece

3 Asociación Instituto de Aplicaciones de las Tecnologías de la Información y de las Comunicaciones Avanzadas

ITACA Spain

4 Planung Transport Verkehr AG PTV Germany 5 Mizar Automazione S.p.A. MIZAR Italy 6 The European Older People’s Platform AGE Belgium 7 SIEMENS S.A. SIEMENS Spain 8 VODAFONE-OMNITEL ITALIA VODAFONE Italy

9 MOTOROLA GmbH, PRRC Physical Realization Research Center -Europe

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11 PROMOTION OF OPERATIONAL LINKS WITH INTEGRATED SERVICES

POLIS Belgium

12 Centro Ricerche Fiat Società Consortile per Azioni CRF Italy FhG/IESE FhG/IAO 13

Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.

FhG/IIS

Germany

14 Universität Bremen UniBremen Germany 15 University of Newcastle upon Tyne UNEW UK 16 SingularLogic S.A. SILO Greece 17 DOMOLOGIC Home Automation GmbH DML Germany 18 ANCO S.A. Agencies, Commerce & Industry ANCO Greece 19 Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas FORTH Greece 20 Marie Curie Association MCA Bulgaria

21 CONNCEPT SWISS CONNCEPT SWISS

Switzerland

22 EWORX S.A. eWORX Greece 23 University of Pisa UNIPI Italy 24 Intelligent Traffic & Transport Applications SA INFOTRIP Greece 25 ATAF SpA ATAF Italy 26 ATC ROM S.r.l. ATCROM Romania 27 Centro Tecnológico de Automoción de Galicia CTAG Spain 28 NETSMART S.A. NETSMART Greece 29 Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey ITESM Mexico

30 Tsinghua University / Institute of Human Factors & Ergonomics, Tsinghua University

TU China

31 Universidad Politécnica de Madrid / Life Supporting Technologies

LST-UPM Spain

32 Innovalia Association INNOVALIA Spain 33 Westpfalz-Klinikum GmbH WKK Germany 34 MULTITEL MULTITEL Belgium

Table 2: List of OASIS partners (full and short name) and their country.



ANNEX B: SHORT PROJECT PRESENTATION 1. Introduction

Barriers to independence are numerous. Frail physical and/or mental health, housing conditions, lack of transportation facilities, community information and communication services and low income levels are the main ones for elderly people. There exist two main trends in the 21 century: one is the rapid development of ICT which has affected all areas of life of people, the other is the trend of aging population, which has attracted attention from government as well as business firms. The profound, pervasive and enduring consequences of ageing population present enormous challenges as well as enormous opportunities for ICT. A typical example is the Internet that has become an enabler of social inclusion.

2. Aim and main achievements OASIS aims at an open and innovative reference architecture, based upon ontologies and semantic services, that will allow plug and play and cost-effective interconnection of existing and new services in all domains required for the independent and autonomous living of the elderly and their Quality of Life enhancement. Both the open reference architecture and the related tools will be made available as open source. User friendliness and acceptability is a top priority for the project and a “user centred-design” approach is followed along the service & application development. OASIS introduces an innovative system, which will enable and facilitate interoperability, seamless connectivity and sharing of content between different services and ontologies in all domains relevant to applications for the elderly and beyond. Over 12 different types of services will be connected with OASIS for the benefit of the elderly, covering user needs and wants in terms of Independent Living Applications (nutritional advisor, activity coach, brain and skills trainers, social communities platform, health monitoring and environmental control) and Autonomous Mobility and Smart Workplaces Applications (elderly-friendly transport information services, route guidance, personal mobility services, mobile devices, biometric authentication interface and multimodal dialogue mitigation and other smart workplace applications).

3. The Sub-projects in short OASIS project is structured in 5 sub-projects, each one having different aims. Sub-Project 1: Open Reference Architecture, User Interface, Platform and Tools

Within SP1, the new innovative, open-ended reference architecture is built (called COF: Common Ontological Framework) for organising, maintaining and applying heterogeneous ontologies. This new architecture framework is aimed to achieve:

- Interoperability between different web services from the same or different application domains. - Sharing of contextual information between different objects and services. - Seamless connectivity between hardware, from hardware to service and from service to service.

Sub-Project 2: Independent Living Applications Usually elderly people are involved in a process involving frailty, functional, cognitive and muscular decline and possible loss of autonomy. This process can be postponed and mitigated if some changes in daily life, as nutrition, physical activity, mental training and social relationships, are adopted, thus, based on SP1, a wide number of applications is being connected to the new reference architecture, or developed. These services to be developed are:

Figure 1: OASIS targeted domains



Nutritional advisor: ?t will deal with the personalization and adaptation of the recommendation and advices to the elder for improving his/her nutrition, so that they can easily become a part of his/her normal habits. Activity coach: ?t will monitor, support and coach several physical activities of the elderly, e.g. to motivate him/her to perform some sport activities, aiming to reduce the age-related declines in the musculoskeletal and cardiovascular systems. Brain and skills trainer: ?t will promote, though different exercises and simulated scenarios, the mental health of persons. A set of personalized exercises will maintain his/her memory and mental activities level. Social relation and recreation platform: This application relates to the building of a social community platform, at different levels, in order to fight the social isolation of elderly people living alone and to facilitate new collaborative experiences. Health monitoring: This application will go beyond the monitoring of the health status, allowing the management of the elderly people’s health and the assurance of their optimal health status while realising the rest of their daily lives activities. Environmental control: Domotics applications will allow the elderly to be confident in his/her house and contribute to the comfort of the person. Sub-Project 3: Autonomous Mobility and Smart Workplaces Applications This SP promotes activities to “push” the elderly user out of his/her home, however guaranteeing safety, security and comfort. New functionalities will be provided, that can give the elderly users more independency and safety in their trips, by easing their driving, avoiding the exposure to risks and accelerating the emergency rescue procedures. A new route guidance prototype, incorporating elderly cognitive needs and behavioural patterns, will be developed. Appropriate mobility services will be offered to the elderly, including journey planning and support while driving (assistance navigation, extended emergency call and tele -diagnostics, driver monitoring and comfort), accessible tourism, leisure and social activities. Furthermore, the need of older people to remain active in the business domain can be supported both while at home, or anywhere in between, as mobile users. Sub-Project 4: Integration, Pilot sites and devices All the developed applications will be tested in 4 sites Europewide (UK, Germany, Italy and in a combined site in Greece, Romania and Bulgaria), by hundreds of users, their caregivers and other stakeholders, in order to evaluate the overall success and to get the required data to optimise them within the project and beyond. Sub-Project 5: Horizontal activities SP5 incorporates the necessary support activities to ensure proper realisation of the rest SPs, such as management, dissemination, marketing and exploitation (including business scenarios and cost-effectiveness analysis) of the project concept and results, ethical and gender issues protection, training (in order to familiarize the partners with the technology requirements) and standardisation (the OASIS platform and applications will be submitted for standardisation by the established OASIS world-wide Industrial Forum).

Figure 2: OASIS pilot sites

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