- Project description
Mission
ReAAL’s mission is to promote universal standards, guidelines and open platforms for interoperable solutions in the domain of active and independent living beyond the retirement age. ReAAL can be applied to a variety of living spaces and services at home.
Our incentive is to demonstrate by 2015 an ICT ecosystem using these guidelines on pilot sites involving at least 5000 users coming from at five different countries.
Overview
Whether it be health, safety, comfort, social integration or extended mobility support – assistance might be needed in any possible aspect of daily life.
Additionally, the AAL market should allow for individuals in fear of losing their independence pick the set of applications and services of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) themselves – as they arise. Open platforms are supposed to be the enabler of this kind of evolvement and are to make products and services more affordable, sustainable, adaptable, and accessible.
ReAAL will investigate these assumptions with a number of pilots, each with a different focus. If the platform’s usefulness is evidenced, the related technical knowledge is transferred to the community of the interest group.
A self-organizing AAL ecosystem will emerge from which a wide range of stakeholders will benefit: application and technology vendors, service providers, public authorities and policy makers, sponsors, the consumer masses and, most of all, people who wish to avoid dependency on nursing homes, preferring to continue living independently in their own homes.
Outlook for ReAAL
- Validate the role of common open platforms by implementing interoperable standards
- Measure the related socio-economic impact using a multi-dimensional evaluation framework that
- allows consideration of ethical, legal, market, quality of life, user experience and socio-economic impact
- Analyze effectiveness of pilots’ value chains and derive replication guidelines
- Publish findings and recommendations, esp. “lessons learned” and best practices on technical and organizational aspects of deployment and public procurement in a public knowledge portal to serve as the ultimate reference for future roll-outs