Description

UniversAAL (UNIVERsal open platform and reference Specification for Ambient Assisted Living) is an European Integrated Project of the 7th Framework Program. The project is being carried out by a consortium composed of a total of 17 partners, with STIFELSEN SINTEF (Norway) as coordinator, and has a duration of 48 months.

The main objective of the project is to make it technically feasible and economically viable to conceive, design and deploy innovative new AAL (Ambient Assisted Living) services. The potential benefits of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) solutions are already clearly recognised, and societal trends indicate that they will be attractive to a large and increasing number of people. universAAL aims to reduce barriers to adoption and to promote the development and widespread uptake of innovative AAL solutions. It will benefit end-users (i.e. elderly people and people with disabilities, their carers and family members) by making new solutions affordable, simple to configure, personalise and deploy. It will benefit solution providers by making it easier and cheaper to create innovative new AAL services or adapt existing ones using a compositional approach based on existing components, services and external systems.

universAAL will establish a store providing plug-and-play AAL applications and services that support multiple execution platforms and can be deployed to various devices and users.

universAAL aims to produce an open platform that provides a standardized approach making it technically feasible and economically viable to develop AAL solutions.

The Technologies for Health and Wellbeing Group (TSB) of the ITACA Institute is the Project Technical Coordinator and holds the responsibility for coordinating the different aspects that affect to the composition of a reference architecture .

http://www.universaal.org

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