The document discusses data-driven innovation in active and healthy aging (AAL) in Europe. It describes (1) demographic challenges like an aging population and shortage of caregivers, (2) EU policy targets to support older adults through technology, and (3) related EU initiatives and projects to conduct research and deploy solutions through open platforms like universAAL.

1. Data-driven Innovation
in the European AAL Landscape
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Peter Wintlev-Jensen
DG CNECT H2, Deputy Head
European Commission

2. Demographic Ageing
Societal Challenge Major Opportunity
••• 2
Dependency Ratio
•From 1:4 to 1:2
•80+ doubles by 2025
Cost of Care
•Up by 4-8 % of GDP by
2025
Human Resources
•Shrinking work force
•Lacking 20 million carers by
2020
Empowerment
•Active Ageing
New Care Models
•Home based
•Integrated care
•Large Efficiency gains
Growth and Markets
•3000 B€ Wealth
•85 Million Consumers and
growing
Tokyo, 2-Oct-2014 OECD GFKE 2014

3. EU Policy Targets
ICT in support of older people…
At Work
• Staying active and productive for longer
• Better quality of work and work-life balance
• In the Community
• Overcoming isolation & loneliness
• Keeping up social networks
• Accessing public services
• At Home
• Better quality of life for longer
• Independence, autonomy and dignity
Tokyo, 2-Oct-2014 OECD GFKE 2014

4. Related EU
Initiatives
New
Knowledge
JPIs
More Years Better Lives
Alzheimer’s
EIP-AHA: The EIP on Active and Healthy Ageing
Proven
Ideas
Evidence Deployment support
and
innovation
guidelines
New solutions
Horizon 2020, SC1
Health
eHealth
Horizon 2020
eHealth
ICT &
Ageing
AAL n
JP
V2
Public Health
Programme
Structural
Funds
EIB
ESF
EIT-KIC
Research Innovation Deployment

5. ••• 5
R&D
FP7 ICT & Ageing Research
> 35 projects, >125 M€ funding
• Advanced Prototypes for
independent living/active
ageing:
• ADL, Cognitive support
• Service and social robotics
• Smart environments for early
risk detection & intervention
• Open Systems, Reference
Architectures, Platforms
• Support: roadmaps, ethics,
standards, Int’l cooperation
ICT & Ageing
Tokyo, 2-Oct-2014 OECD GFKE 2014

6. A Core R&D Result:
OECD GFKE 2014
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An open platform for interoperable AAL solutions mandated to
 Consolidate reusable results from earlier projects
 Be cross-application: not optimized for just specific solutions
 Fill the gaps in the chain from development to deployment to use
 Be targeted at developers, deployers and manufacturers
Tokyo, 2-Oct-2014

7. universAAL as Open Source Software
 The Middleware (Container, Discovery & Peering, Communication, Brokers /
Buses)
 The Managers (CHE, Profiling, Reasoners, Dialog Manager, …)
 Ontologies
 Tools (AAL Studio, universAAL Control Centre -- uCC)
 Example AAL Services
 uStore (open source part)
 Reference documentation and the Wiki pages
 Training material
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http://universaal.aaloa.org/
OECD GFKE 2014

8. The Value of
 Consolidates the state-of-the-art, and achieves to
 Facilitate the development of AAL services, and
 Reduce the overhead of deployment in homes
 Offers a major set of features, like interoperability, compose-ability,
extensibility, adaptability, configurability, accessibility, and reliability
 Ensures, through tool and documentation support, lean development and
deployment processes
 Enables, through openness, multi-vendor solutions and impedes vendor lock-in
OECD GFKE 2014
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http://universaal.aaloa.org/
Tokyo, 2-Oct-2014

9. Relationships among the EU Initiatives
New
Knowledge
JPIs
More Years Better Lives
Alzheimer’s
EIP-AHA: The EIP on Active and Healthy Ageing
Proven
Ideas
Evidence Deployment support
and
innovation
guidelines
New solutions
Horizon 2020, SC1
Health
eHealth
Horizon 2020
eHealth
ICT &
Ageing
AAL n
JP
V2
Public Health
Programme
Structural
Funds
EIB
ESF
EIT-KIC
Research Innovation Deployment

10. Innovation ICT & Ageing
ICT Policy Support Programme / CIP
- Large scale pilots
• - Assisted living using existing technology
• - Focus on evidence, organisation change,
and business models
• - Building on regional activities
• 16 pilots
• > 50 Regions
• > 20.000 users
• > 70M€ funding
• - Multiple Chronic diseases
• - Cognitive impairment
• - Integrated Care
• - Fall prevention and detection
• - Skills & carers
• - EIP support
••• 10
Tokyo, 2-Oct-2014 OECD GFKE 2014

11. ReAAL
The EU CIP ICT PSP Project
Will open platforms be able to help
achieving AAL market breakthrough?
real-life piloting with universAAL
involving at least 5000 users
in 5 EU countries

12. Expected Results
• ReAAL will
 validate the role of common open platforms in putting
interoperability standards in place
 measure the related socio-economic impact
o a multidimensional evaluation framework will allow to also consider
the ethical, legal, market, quality of life, and user experience impacts
in addition to the socio-economic impact
 analyse the effectiveness of pilots’ value chains and derive
replication guidelines
 publish findings and recommendations, esp. lessons learned and
best practices on technical and organisational aspects of
deployment and public procurement in a public knowledge portal
to serve as the ultimate reference for future roll-outs
OECD GFKE 2014 Tokyo, 2-Oct-2014

13. Journey to Establish de facto Interoperability Standards by 2016
era before universAAL 2010 2016
OECD GFKE 2014
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Consoli
dation
www.universaal.org
depot.universaal.org
forge.universaal.org
real-life
deployment
with 7000 users
in
DE
DK
ES
FR
IT
NL
NO
www.cip-reaal.eu
various “platform” projects
Amigo
GENESYS
MPOWER
OASIS
PERSONA
SOPRANO
Tokyo, 2-Oct-2014

14. LESSONS LEARNED FOR
DATA-DRIVEN INNOVATION
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15. eHealth penetrating the Home: Continua Architecture
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service provider‘s
server
backend server
collecting data
OECD GFKE 2014
Tokyo, 2-Oct-2014

16. AAL Space
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OECD GFKE 2014
Tokyo, 2-Oct-2014

17. Comparison
There are many similarities, and a convergence is possible
Need for Cross-domain Interoperability is emerging, e.g.
 frequent abnormalities in daily activities as possible indication of dementia
 medical data (puls, blood pressure) to infer the emotional state in a given
situation
OECD GFKE 2014
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18. Paving the path for data-driven innovation
Need for
 Unified representation of data regardless of domain and extraction technology
(e.g., RDF?)
 A standard cross-domain query language (e.g., SPARQL?)
 Openly evolving systems, dynamically adapted to the changing needs (e.g.,
based on universAAL?)
 Open distributed systems allowing parallel reasoning mechanisms with
 several special-purpose reasoners, as well as
 several general-purpose reasoners
(e.g., based on universAAL?)
Creative people to innovate competing data analysis
OECD GFKE 2014
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techniques on top of such an open framework!
Tokyo, 2-Oct-2014

19. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!
Questions?
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Mohammad-Reza (Saied) Tazari
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