The document discusses the UNIVERSAL project, which aims to establish an open platform for Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) by utilizing Internet of Things (IoT) technologies to create smart, adaptive environments. It highlights the need for semantic interoperability and cross-domain cooperation to manage complexities within IoT systems, suggesting a unified approach to data representation and service integration. Additionally, it stresses the importance of collaboration across communities to facilitate platform interoperability while managing costs effectively.

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UNIVERSAAL
Contribution to the EIP-AHA Interoperability Sessions at AAL Forum 2015
IGD_Folienvorlage_v2010.10.ppt
Titel - Ort, Datum - Vorname Name
Saied Tazari
Fraunhofer-Institut für
Graphische Datenverarbeitung IGD
Fraunhoferstraße 5
64283 Darmstadt
Tel +49 6151 155 – 228 | Fax – 480
saied.tazari@igd.fraunhofer.de
www.igd.fraunhofer.de

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 Ambient Assisted Living started as
an application focus of Ambient Intelligence vision
 Ambient Intelligence vision
 Utilize Internet of Things potential to create
smart human-centred environments that are
context-aware, adaptive and anticipatory
 AAL should build on top of this and support the development of
smart and independent living applications
 An AAL platform should help to
 Manage the IoT complexity in homes as an open distributed system of systems
 Help to utilize the cumulative potential of the sum total of capabilities
 Support the implementation of the Sensing-Reasoning-Acting pattern
universAAL Perspective on a Platform for AAL
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IGD_Folienvorlage_v2010.10.ppt

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EU R&I Path towards an established Open Platform for AAL
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IGD_Folienvorlage_v2010.10.ppt
2014
Consoli
dation
universaal.aaloa.org
github.com/universAAL/
Apache SW License 2.0
real-life large-scale
rollout in 13 pilots in
DE
DK
ES
FR
GR
IT
NL
SI
www.cip-reaal.eu
20162010era before universAAL
various“platform”projects
Amigo
GENESYS
MPOWER
OASIS
PERSONA
SOPRANO

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 Benefits from
 semantic Web technologies for unified representation of data regardless of domain
and extraction technology, unified cross-domain query language, and externalizable
and sharable domain models
 an implementation of semantic interoperability for SoA at the level of
communication protocol (existing since 2008)
 Avoids domain-specific APIs by reducing syntactical dependencies to one single
brokerage API
Allows dynamic evolution of arbitrary constellations based on loose coupling
 Enables integration & Interoperability in a domain- and vendor independent way
 Future-proof contribution to managing complexity for the general IoT
universAAL – Open Horizontal Service Integration Layer
across all Verticals

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Titel - Ort, Datum - Vorname Name
universAAL – How does it look like?
This is me
I need these
I offer those
Context
History
Entrepot
Situation
Reasoner
Space
Gateway
Space
Orchestrator
Dialog
Manager
UI
Handlers
Profiling …
universAAL “Manager”s
Interaction
channels

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ReAAL as Stress-tester of
eight

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 Yes, thinking in complementary terms in a globally networked world is a must
 Yes, there is need for finding consensus on “HTTP” and “HTML” of IoT
 Yes, openness towards cross-community cooperation is essential
 But, too expensive to go for platform-platform interoperability (n! pairs)
 Probably, the following would work better
 Intensify cross-community interactions at the level of technical details to achieve
thorough understanding of each other’s achievements
 Tackle the challenge of a possible roadmap for convergence and organize financial
support to realize the roadmap
POSITION W.R.T. PLATFORM
INTEROPERABILITY
Bucharest,9-Sep-2014
ReAAL Info Event @ AAL Forum

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THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION
universAAL @ EIP-AHA Interoperability Sessions at AAL Forum 2015
IGD_Folienvorlage_v2010.10.ppt
Titel - Ort, Datum - Vorname Name
Mohammad-Reza (Saied) Tazari
Fraunhofer-Institut für
Graphische Datenverarbeitung IGD
Fraunhoferstraße 5
64283 Darmstadt
Tel +49 6151 155 – 228 | Fax – 480
saied.tazari@igd.fraunhofer.de
www.igd.fraunhofer.de