Ambient Intelligence Living Research in Europe

The German Fraunhofer-Institut für Experimentelles Software Engineering, IESE in Kaiserslautern is one of the worldwide leading research institutes in the area of software and systems development. "Ambient Intelligence" is a research area in which Fraunhofer IESE together with the University of Kaiserslautern deals with various projects. Ambient Intelligence Systems provide an intelligent environment that reacts in a sensitive and adaptive way to the presence of humans and objects in order to provide various services to people.

Fraunhofer IESE is enganged in four large AI projects:

BelAmI - Bilateral German-Hungarian Research Collaboration on Ambient Intelligence Systems
The BelAmI project aims at developing innovative technologies and system development methods in the area of Ambient Intelligence. This goal is to be reached by making use of the complementary expertise of the researchers in the participating institutions; finding solutions to research challanges in problems characteristic to the field of Ambient Intelligence; demonstrating these solutions in real life application scenarios; producing application systems for the industry.

EMERGE - Emergency Monitoring and Prevention
EMERGE intends to model the typical behavior of elderly people with medical risks following an integrated approach that uses ambient and unobtrusive sensors, in order to detect deviations from typical behavior, reason on acute disorders, and prevent emergencies. EMERGE tries to improve emergency assistance through early detection and proactive prevention. Ambient and unobtrusive sensing is used to enhance user acceptance. As a consequence, the quality of life for elderly people can increase. Costs for emergency medical services (EMS) can be leveraged for the elderly as well as for public health and society.

AALIANCE
The Coordination Action AALIANCE - funded by the European Commission, DG Information Society and Media, within the 7th Framework Programme - focuses on Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) solutions based on advanced ICT technologies for the areas of aging at work, aging at homed and aging in the society.

OASIS
OASIS is the acronym of a Large Scale Integrated Project co-financed by the European Commission (7th Framework Programme, ICT and Ageing – Grant Agreement No: 215754). The full project name is: Open architecture for Accessible Services Integration and Standardization. It started on January 1, 2008 and has a length of four years. The OASIS Consortium is composed of 33 Partners from 11 countries. Large Industries, SMEs, Universities, Research Centers, Non-Profit Organizations, Public Organizations and Healthcare Centers are all represented.

OASIS is an Integrated Project with the scope to revolutionise the interoperability, quality, breadth and usability of services for all daily activities of older people.
More specifically, OASIS targets to utilise ICT and other key technologies in order to provide holistic services to older people 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.

A Pilots test-bed, consisting of 4 sites Europewide (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.