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The UniversAAL Platform for AAL (Ambient Assisted Living)

Abstract

This article describes the UniversAAL platform, an open platform intended to facilitate the development, distribution, and deployment of technological solutions for Ambient assisted living (AAL). The platform is intended to benefit end users (i.e., assisted persons, their families, and caregivers), authorities with responsibility for AAL, and organizations involved in the development and deployment of AAL services. It consists of an extensive set of resources (some are software and some are models/architectures) aimed at these different groups. The resources are classified into three main groups: runtime support, development support, and community support. The article presents the benefits that can be expected from the widespread adoption of the platform. The article also describes progress on prototype implementations of some of the software resources, and the results of initial evaluations of the platform. The work is partially based on results from earlier European Union-funded research projects in the area.

Category

Academic article

Language

English

Author(s)

  • Erina Ferro
  • Michele Girolami
  • Dario Salvi
  • Christopher Mayer
  • Joe Gorman
  • Andrej Grguric
  • Roni Ram
  • Rubaiyat Sadat
  • Konstantinos M. Giannoutakis
  • Carsten Stocklöw

Affiliation

  • National Research Council
  • Institute of Information Science and Technologies
  • University of Pisa
  • Technical University of Madrid
  • Austrian Institute of Technology
  • SINTEF Digital / Software Engineering, Safety and Security
  • Croatia
  • University of Haifa
  • University of Siegen
  • Greece
  • Germany

Year

2015

Published in

Journal of Intelligent Systems

ISSN

0334-1860

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter (De Gruyter)

Volume

24

Issue

3

Page(s)

301 - 319

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