Ubiquitous Care System to Support Independent Living

The main objective of the CONFIDENCE project, led and coordinated by CEIT, is the development and integration of innovative technologies to develop a care system for the detection of abnormal events (such as falls) or unexpected behaviors that may be related to a health problem in elderly people. Nowadays, most of the care systems in the market are limited to detect falls. The innovation of CONFIDENCE is that it will not only detect falls, but also identify short and long term unexpected behaviors that could indicate health problems.

The project is funded by the 7th Framework Programme of the European Commission that granted this project with the highest mark among 126 projects. CONFIDENCE has a budget of 4 million Euros for the next 3 years. The partners of the project are the following ones: CEIT-IK4 and IKERLAN-IK4 from Spain, the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS from Germany, the Jozef Stefan Institute from Slovenia, Cooss Marche and Cup 2000 from Italy, the University of Jyvaskyla from Finland, the Umea Municipality of Sweden, Edevice from France and Zenon from Greece.