SAVE – SAFETY OF ELDERLY PEOPLE AND VICINITY ENSURING

 

Catre versiunea in limba romana

Begin date of contract: 01/09/2019

End date of contract: 31/08/2022

Project duration: 36 months

Project summary

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SAVE will provide a “top-down” approach to:

• location and identity (using location and location based services [from] identity separation protocols)
• role orientation (capabilities increase from end user to volunteer, family member, professional caregiver and even IT specialist)
• person safety, which is integrated with neighborhood safety – compliant with integrated (combined) emergency alerts (medical, police, fire, etc.) available in many countries (smart mediation would improve the handling of alerts to make the difference between real SOSs and pre-filtered “spams”)
• the well-being, which is supported by the monitoring of the physical state (with portable devices) integrated with the stimulation of the physical exercise
• “to-do” lists, which are shared with the trusted group of “friends and family,” and forgotten tasks are remembered / updated / improved in the supervised care community
• the target group for the elderly, which is expanded with different types of other end-users (with mild dementia and other deficiencies or disabilities)

The objective of this project

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“SAVE” is dedicated to the elderly, who suffer from (or are at risk of) chronic age-related illnesses and / or mild cognitive impairments. For these and a number of people “not in good shape”, “SAVE” aims to avoid psychosocial exclusion by “restoring the referential”.

The unique purpose of “orientation” in a supportive environment – in terms of position location and / or safety (in smart homes equipped with sensors) is also addressed in a broader cognitive and behavioral sense , task-oriented in the “personal cloud” of relatives, friends and carers.

Estimated results

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• To live an active and meaningful life, independently and safely, for more time at home and in the vicinity
• Ethical issues would be addressed by exploiting modern and safe technologies, by humanizing the care relationship
• Service models would have an impact on the intelligent environment, physical activities and well-being, as well as on the carers’ perception of their social involvement
• The business model (infrastructure, training and distribution network – at the end of the three years of project) would target part of the 10 million elderly people in the E.U. who suffer from mild cognitive impairment and related problems

Partners

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Participant	Participant Name of organization	Participant Short name	The type of organization	The role in the project	Country
1 (Coordinator)	Transilvania University of Brasov	UNITBV	University	Research	RO
2	Vision Systems SRL	VS	SME	BUSINESS	RO
3	Institute of Space Science – NILPRP subsidiary	ISS	Research	Research	RO
4	Ikontent Digital Europe KFT.	IKONTENT	SME	BUSINESS	HU
5	EVA Vision R&D LLC	EVA	SME	BUSINESS	HU
6	Országos Orvosi Rehabilitációs Intézet	NIMR	End-user	User	HU
7	Laboratorio delle Idee S.r.l.	Labidee	SME	BUSINESS	IT
8	IRCCS-INRCA	INRCA	Research	User	IT

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Partner 1 – UNITBV, Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania

UNITBV is a state university with over 23,000 undergraduate, master and doctoral students. It has earned the “Full Trust” rating at the national evaluation and is ranked among the first at national level to research excellence. The University has extensive cooperation with European universities, companies and research institutions.

UNITBV has developed an Independent Green Energy Greenfield Campus – GENIUS for the purpose of owning a Scientific Research Institute composed of 12 buildings based on sustainable development and renewable energy. Research studies from the GENIUS campus are in the field of quality of life.

ICT Infrastructure – Designed and developed entirely by specialists from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, involved in the implementation of the current project – includes a new and powerful IBM Data Center Data Center. This Campus is the first Romanian “Green Campus” and one of the international demo structures, providing an important research facility.

The University has demonstrated experience in designing and deploying large systems distributed with wireless sensor networks, virtualization, intelligent resource monitoring and allocation through a private cloud – an objective also under the current project. Also, an important resource that can be used in the current project is also the implementation of a SOA platform by UNITBV using a cloud computing architecture. The Faculty of Medicine and the Emergency County Clinical Hospital, affiliated with Transilvania University, provide adequate facilities to sick, geriatric or mental diseases patients.

The UNITBV team to be involved in the project itself also has proven experience in international cooperation projects such as the “Using IBM CloudBurst and Rational Application Developer to Develop Mobile Applications for Remote Healthcare Monitoring with Feedback Functions” , “VirtualElectroLab” and “Virtual and remote laboratories”.

UNITBV has a long-standing collaboration with Vision Systems (a romanian IMM from ITC domain involved in the project ) in a variety of fields, particularly in software development and joint implementation of international projects (such as the VetTrend project: Development of a transnational experiment-based learning environment within the Leonardo da Vinci program).

Role in the project:

The University will do the general coordination of the project, including the WP5 – Mangement and dissemination. It will bring also its scientific expertise to the research activities of the project with several respects. It will develop cloud services, data analysis process and cloud technology. It will provide medical knowledge in the conceptualization phase and, later, in the development of the behavioural analysis module.

Volunteering organisations will be involved next to the UNITBV for social peer-to-peer integration. The Faculty of Physical Education and Mountain Sports will conduct the physical activity programs. It will colaborate in the other WPs. UNITBV will collaborate for the Romanian pilot with the Direction of Social Services from the Brasov City Council – DAS – in hosting the Romanian pilot site (mostly WP2 and WP3), with 30 end-users, contributing to the psycho-social aspects of the project and, also, at testing scenarios and campaigns on the specific pilot from Romania.

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Partner 2 – VS, Vision Systems, Brasov, Romania

Vision Systems is a software company based in Brasov, Romania. On top of its core activity of software development, the company offers also consulting, training and project planning for software solutions. Vision Systems offers a wide variety of multimedia services, ranging from the classic presentations and creative entertainment to high-end design, and consulting in industrial and technical fields. The company built advanced, modular, scalable, multi-user, multi-profile, safe and reliable web platforms useful for a wide range of applications (from e-learning to industrial applications).

Vision Systems developed platforms and tools for several activity domains, concentrating on ease of use and accessibility. The company has extensive experience in managing web-based services and in computer applications for automation, control and data management. Vision Systems participated in several European projects such as VIM, Molecole, Vet Prof.E.S.S.Ion.A.L, VET TREND, ORSA MINORE, TIP TOE. In addition, the company is involved in the implementation of AAL projects such as FOOD, HELICOPTER and NOAH projects, since 2011.

Role in the project:

Vision Systems will lead WP3, testing and validation, and will collaborate with Labidee, GEMA, and UNITBV, in designing the software and overall architecture of the system and the database for storing the data; development of cloud services for social interaction; programming/developing of software-based user interfaces for desktops, tablets, smartphones. Some of such tasks will also involve external collaborations managed through VSRO, to effectively incorporate outcomes and competences from other related projects. VS will contribute also at the Romania pilot.

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Partner 3 – ISS, The Institute of Space Science, Bucharest, Romania

Institute of Space Science (ISS) is a Research and Development Institute based in Măgurele, Romania. ISS has experience in developing space-based projects according to European Space Agency (ESA) standards in the context of human health and security IT&C applications, as telemedicine, disaster management, physiological and psychological countermeasures for diminishing deleterious effects given by microgravity, isolation, confinement on astronauts etc. From the point of view of current experience, ISS has been performing projects through the national financed mechanisms (e.g. National Research Development and Innovation Program – PNCDI, Space Technology and Advanced Research – STAR etc.), but also international projects through ESA-PECS (European Space Agency-Plan for European Cooperating States), and in combination with international co-operators (ESA, FP7 etc.).

ISS has also proper experience in identifying and dealing with different opportunities, standards and regulations, as well in projects implementation approach through Systems Engineering (SE). The team competences cover a large area of research, as software development, hardware integration and connectivity, Systems Engineering working standards, 3D CAD modelling etc. Relevant for the herein proposal, SAHHSD performed an ESA-PECS telemedicine project, specifying and developing a Portable Telemedicine Workstation from TRL 2 to TRL5, and other main activities concerning impairments that occur during spaceflight missions.

Role in the project:

ISS will ensure the Systems Engineering (SE) user centered methodology for guiding the entire project in the user driven perspective and contribute accordingly to: WP1 – T1.5 Sensor Networking (clinical sensors subassembly), and implementing proper methodology/ies within T1.8 Integration and implementation of “Technology Club” well-being aspect; WP2, WP3 – assisting the consortium partners within the expressed tasks to attain the logical information flow with respect to SE procedures; WP5-scientific dissemination.