EMERGE Project
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- Objectives - This is an EU funded FP7 STREP project. Its aims are to model the typical behavior of medically at-risk elderly people using ambient and unobtrusive sensors, in order to detect deviations from typical behaviors and identify potential emergencies before they become acute. EMERGE tries to improve emergency assistance through early detection and proactive prevention. The project’s stated objectives are to;
- Identify and model the most promising application scenarios for integrated emergency assistance.
- Transfer the emergency model into an application design.
- Identify and engineer suitable ambient information technology.
- Engineer an adequate system architecture and platform.
- Validate the models and the engineered system in laboratory and field trials.
- Details - The EMERGE project uses non-body-mounted sensors for environment and activity tracking, building automation facilities, and location tracking. Body-mounted sensors will be used to monitor vital functions are used only if this cannot be done in an ambient way. They will use sensor fusion techniques to combine sensor data from different sources. Based on this sensor data, they will use a Reasoning approach to identify potentially critical situations and implement appropriate actions.
- Trials - Two trial scenarios are promised;
- Testing in the Assisted Living Laboratory of Fraunhofer IESE [1], which represents a close-to-real life environment of elderly people.
- A real-life evaluation will then be conducted with case studies at two partner sites. No details available at this time.
This project is work in progress as of this time (Sept 2009) as further information becomes available it will be posted here [2].
