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THE universAAL PLATFORM FOR AAL AND

ITS DEPLOYMENT IN ReAAL

Mohammad-Reza (Saied) Tazari

Fraunhofer-Institut für

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Fraunhoferstraße 5

64283 Darmstadt

Tel +49 6151 155 – 228 | Fax – 480

[email protected]

www.igd.fraunhofer.de

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Tech Gate – Wien, 22-Oktober-2012

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Motivation

universAAL

ReAAL

OVERVIEW

From universAAL to ReAAL – Saied Tazari, Wien, 22-Oktober-2012 2

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A definition: ICT for intelligent living environments that react to the needs of their

inhabitants by providing relevant assistance

Assistance in life…

Health

Safety and security

Daily activities: personal hygiene, home cleaning, shopping, cooking, …

Comfort & entertainment

Social integration

Mobility

etc.

Overlap with several other disciplines, such as

Ambient intelligence

eHealth / Telemedicine

Home Automation / Energy efficiency

Ambient Assisted Living


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A possible view


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No major success stories despite the following facts:

There is the need, e.g.

Ageing populations escalate costs for the related social systems

There is the market potential

Demand: a growing population in a main segment of customers

Supply: possibility for a large variety of applications

E.g., EC says: Europeans over 65 have a revenue of over € 3000 billion

E.g., EC says: Market for smart home applications to triple until 2020

There is socio-political support

AAL is already a major topic on the Digital Agenda of the EC

Still new initiatives start, e.g.

The EU JPI “More Years, Better Lives”

The EU Innovation Partnership on Active & Healthy Ageing (EIP-AHA)

The AAL Puzzle (I)


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Market breakthrough for AAL certainly more challenging than for eHealth:

There is no killer app, it’s about an evolving open distributed system

Simple use cases do not demonstrate the potential of AAL very well

Intelligent reaction to needs necessitates more complex settings

Lack of interoperability standards turns very quickly to a barrier

An evolving system cannot be bound to few certain business models it is not clear

who should invest on creating showcases and related advertisement

There is a gap between R&D and the market

Technology and operation cost is not sufficiently low for attracting investment on

creating products and services that stimulate the market

Large enterprises do not invest in the absence of a stable ecosystem which

guarantees RoI

SMEs are not able to invest in the absence of a stable ecosystem giving them the

chance to survive

The AAL Puzzle (II)


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A community activity organized by the AAL Open Association (AALOA.org) on the

occasion of the AAL Forum 2011, in Lecce, Italy

Signed by over 200 organizations involved in consortia of 44 different AAL projects

self-organizing ecosystems emerge around common open platforms a

call towards common open platforms for AAL

9 measures proposed as possible steps to achieve the above goal, e.g.

provide coherent views on AAL systems by promoting the convergence of similar

results into established and reusable concepts

put competing technological enablers under stress test in real-life conditions to

assess their usefulness, usability and reliability

Basically, calling for co-opetiton – collaboration among competitors – in order to

achieve commoditized infrastructures

The Lecce Declaration on AAL Market Breakthrough


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Motivation

universAAL

ReAAL

OVERVIEW

From universAAL to ReAAL – Saied Tazari, Wien, 22-Oktober-2012

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universAAL – UNIVERsal open platform and reference Specification for Ambient

Assisted Living

Under Objective 7.1b of FP7-ICT-2009-4:

Consolidation of cutting-edge R&D results towards a reference open and cross-application

platform for AAL

universAAL Main Objective

To make it technically possible and economically feasible to design and deploy innovative AAL services


Supporting a holistic view on the AAL eco system


universAAL platform

Runtime support Development

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AAL Platform Services

Alarming, Fall detection,

Message board, Personal

Health Record Adapter, +++

AAL Platform Services

Alarming, Fall detection,

Message board, Personal

Health Record Adapter, +++

Generic Platform Services

Context awareness, Security,

Personalisation support, +++

Generic Platform Services

Context awareness, Security,

Personalisation support, +++

Execution Environment: Common API

Execution Environment:OS + hardware specific

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Mandate: Consolidating State-of-the-Art in one platfom for AAL


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AAL Spaces: smart environments providing AAL Services

The challenge – running applications on multiple heterogeneous devices

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Recall the broad perspective on platform

Market support

Development support

Operation support

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A first Refinement

Developer Depot with AAL

Studio uStore

Stationary AAL Space

Remote Assistance Site (RAS)

Mobile AAL Space


uStore AAL Space

Developer Depot

Assisted Person

AAL Application Developer

AAL Service Provider

AAL Service Delivery Package

AAL Application

AAL Application

Development Tools

The Three Pillars of the universAAL Platform


The uStore concept

Apple’s “App Store”

Application

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universAAL uStore

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Operation Support in AAL Spaces

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Simplified View


High-level Communication Protocol Supporting Semantic Interoperability

Interaction


Integration of Special-purpose Devices

Managed Gateway

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Context Bus

real devices in a non-universAAL

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proxied devices introduced to the

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Integration Layer

Abstraction Layer

Access Layer

Bluetooth Driver

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Design Pattern for Local Device Discovery & Integration


Integration Layer

Abstraction Layer Merge into an unified uAAL device model

Access Layer

Bluetooth Driver

KNX Driver

UPnP WS Rest uAAL

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ISO 11073:10471 Agent – ZigBee Node ZigBee Sensors

ZigBee Transport with ISO 11073 Payload

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Resources

www.universaal.org, esp.

• all deliverables immediately after release

• Newsletters, publicity material, comic

depot.universaal.org, the entry point for developers (reachable also through the home page)

• Getting started developing AAL applications

• Learning more about the platform & contributing to the development of the platform

forge.universaal.org (reachable also through the Developer Depot) with

• source codes, Javadocs, & Wiki Pages

• forum discussions


http://depot.universaal.org/

http://forge.universaal.org/

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Motivation

universAAL

ReAAL

OVERVIEW


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Objective 3.2 of

CIP ICT PSP Call 6

The ReAAL Project

The Call Context


Key Points of Objective 3.2

1. Funding one pilot type B

Stimulating uptake of innovative ICT-based solutions

Realistic conditions, operational pilot demonstrating significant

impact

Engage a complete value-chain of stakeholders in the work

Demonstrate the technical, organisational and legal feasibility

Assess the impact in view of wider deployment and use

Anticipate sustainability and scalability beyond the pilot phase

24 to 36 months with a real-life operational phase of at least 6 months

At least 5 independent legal entities from 5 EU Member States or

associated countries (no upper legal limit)



2. Focus and Outcomes

Major requirement for large scale uptake: flexible and cost-effective ICT

solutions based on open standards and support for interoperability

assumption in call text

Demonstrate the socio-economic benefits of open service platforms as

a basis for delivery of relevant active and independent living services

goal in call text



3. Conditions and Characteristics

cooperation across Europe in specification, implementation and measuring the socio-economic

benefits of this approach compared to traditional approaches

interoperation between multi-vendor solutions

involve at least 5000 end users!!

deliver large scale socio-economic evidence on return of investment on the case for open and flexible

ICT solutions

provide reference specifications and guidelines for large scale deployment

build on existing and emerging public or private initiatives

include relevant stakeholders across industry, service provision, regions/municipalities and user

organisations

provide proven reference specifications and organisational best practice cases for replication

provide evidence on monitoring and evaluation of impact

when building on existing pilots: establish conditions for market deployment, systemic integration and

widespread replication

a credible and ambitious exploitation plan

dissemination and communication addressing experts, public authorities and relevant stakeholders with

specific and realistic quantitative indicators to monitor progress at different stages



5. Expected Impact

Evidence of the return of investment for service delivery based on large

scale experiences on open and flexible platforms

Widespread replication of solutions by 2015

Use of interoperability standards by 2015

6. Benefits of common open platforms supporting interoperability

For buyers of AAL products and services: avoiding “vendor lock-in”

For providers of products and services: easier deployment in different

settings opening wider markets

For end users: more stable user experience, cost reduction by resource

sharing among different applications / services and by harmonized

installation and maintenance procedures


The ReAAL Way


Basic Understanding

• Assumptions

Domain of active and independent living is about the daily life of people who might need assistance to

be able to avoid dependency on nursing homes and continue to live independently in their own homes

Assistance might be needed in any possible aspect of daily life, e.g., health, safety and security, daily

activities such as personal hygiene, home cleaning, shopping and cooking, comfort and entertainment,

social integration, support of mobility, reduction of costs and avoiding waste in consumption (bridge to

energy efficiency), etc.

Scope cannot be limited to only certain applications

AAL market should allow each individual in danger of losing independency to pick the set of

applications and services over time based on the different needs that arise with ageing

• Fact: Public sector starting to invest in deployments

in order to get prepared for the socio-economic consequences of the alarming demographic change

Technology vendors approach these bodies with the claim to have the best solution in order to benefit

from the corresponding budgets and penetrate the related market

The public sector needs certain criteria that help to optimize the return of investment


Problems Addressed I

• Issues making public sector busy

They want their technology investments to be future-proof and are looking for evidence

from other regions on what is the best technology to invest in, what are the related costs,

what are the effects, etc.

The same also applies to standards; they want to know the implications of choosing a

technology that uses KNX in comparison to using ZigBee, for instance.

They want to know the related best practice and lessons learned resulted from relevant

experiences made by other investors.

They want proven frameworks based on which they can evaluate certain aspects of the

technology (in use) in order to make proper investment decisions.

They want to avoid vendor lock-in; i.e., they want to put technology or parts thereof into

frameworks that allow the changing of all or parts of a solution, if necessary.

Not only the investors would like to avoid vendor lock-in, no single vendor can provide all

the solutions needed either, as a matter of fact. Therefore, creating a single point of

service for the maintenance of all deployed solutions becomes very difficult, if not

impossible, when the solutions do not relate to each other in any way (i.e., are not based

on same technologies and core platforms). In such a situation, maintenance costs will

become a major cost factor for the investors.


Problems Addressed II

• Issues making technology providers busy (results from AMB’11)

Market conditions are still not very clear might become a frontrunner

with just one right decision in the right time or miss the boat by just little

hesitation or one wrong decision.

SMEs usually agree that stable ecosystems around common open

platforms will help to at least mitigate the technological risks but the

ecosystem has not emerged yet and they are not strong enough to invest in

such platforms

o They are obviously concerned with maintaining the technology that is currently

providing their revenue stream, and would need a very strong argument to

change their technological foundations (platforms).

o Typically, small companies that have all their resources involved in making the

next releases of their products and services, have little or no capacity for research

and try and error.

o Many are sceptical to adopt technology from EU projects as there is limited

evidence, low number of industry users, lack of support, etc.


Platform Reuse I

Main message of Objective 3.2

There is no established platform for AAL!

ReAAL way: benefit from the EC investment on the Consolidated European platform for

AAL: universAAL

Mandated to consolidate state-of-the-art and best practices towards a future-proof cross-

application platform without imposing certain technologies to facilitate the development of

a wide range of distributed and heterogeneous applications

universAAL is in the third project year: reached the state of release 1.2

still 16 months; main development planned to be finished early next year

Current development plans: making the platform easier to use and more reliable

ReAAL way: involve the universAAL core team

Influence the universAAL priorities if needed

Guarantee high-quality technology transfer, providing training and support for the whole

duration of ReAAL


Platform Reuse II

• The universAAL core team offer to ReAAL

Royalty-free provision of the platform under the Apache License 2.0, explicitly

guaranteeing that there is no hidden patent

Provision of a certain release specifically prepared for ReAAL with an agreed

set of relevant features of value

o Guaranteeing a high-level of support for interoperability and reuse of data and

functionality

o Guaranteeing two versions: OSGi as well as Android-native

o Trying to also provide a cross-platform compilable C++ version as well as a version for

.Net Compact Framework

Guaranteeing training and committing to support (bug fixing and handling

feature requests reported / requested by the pilots)

Providing tools and documentation

Providing a set of reusable example applications


Building on existing pilots I

• Save as far as possible costs on

individual requirements analysis and creation of individual deployment

plans

investment

application development just need for adaptation to universAAL

• Instead, go more for what is demanded in the call text

Multi-vendor solutions (substitute rigid binding & packaging of

subcomponents by loose binding over universAAL in order to allow the

involvement of several vendors at the subcomponent level)

Exporting applications from one pilot to another (show widening of market

chances)

Create incentive for pilot sites to choose relevant apps


Building on existing pilots II

• More resources for establishing conditions for market deployment,

systemic integration and widespread replication

• Benefits for the investors of existing pilots

All activities will be ReAAL specific and hence eligible for funding

Avoid “vendor lock-in”

Become future-proof with regard to not-foreseen enhancements

• Benefits for the local stakeholders

Receive funding for experimenting with universAAL

Achieve more B2B business opportunities

Penetrate the European export market

Become future-proof with regard to dependencies to subcomponents


Consortium Building


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Representation in ReAAL Technical expert

UK In the context of the DALLAS programme

1800 ADI, the coordinator of the iFocus project, which is the umbrella project of DALLAS responsible for the interoperability across all of the regional projects

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1500

Basque Country 850 FAGOR, the main coordinator of the selected pilots across the Basque Country.

UPVLC

Badalona 400 BSA, an integrated health and social care organization with 100% public capital (Council of Badalona)

UPVLC

Madrid 250 TEA, a franchise company of Mondial Assistance group, representing Cluster of Health and Welfare of Madrid Network

UPM

NL Health Portal Rijnmond (Rotterdam)

1200 RijnmondNet, the operator of the Health Portal Rijnmond SmH

DK Odense with 3 pilots 800 The municipality as the direct investor of the pilot MedCom

IT Puglia 500 CNR-IMM representing the local initiative INNOVAAL CNR-ISTI

FR Auvergne 500 ADMR - Comité Régional Auvergne TRIALOG

DE Cluster of 3 different pilots

430 AJT, cluster lead and the private investor of a member pilot Fh-IGD

NO Baerum 270 Baerum as the direct investor of the pilot SINTEF

Project Results


ID Exploitable Result

1 At least 12 operational pilots using a common open platform, each with at least 6 months of active operation in conjunction with each deployed application to be used in real life involving at least 5000 users in total until the end of the project

2 An established portfolio of interoperable applications readily adapted to universAAL, associated with guidelines for matching the user requirements against it and deriving complete deployment plans in conjunction with future replications as well as an enlarged developers community around the common platform

3 Buyers' requirements from the common open platform derived from (1) their user requirements, (2) the applications selected by the pilots for deployment, and (3) interoperability and customization requiremeents

4 A specific release of the universAAL platform specifically prepared for ReAAL with an agreed set of relevant features of value

5 A support and training framework as part of the infrastructure for the sustainability of Res 4

6 Guidelines for monitoring and evaluating the adaptation of products and services to the universAAL platform

7 A public knowledge portal donated to AALOA, consisting of details of discussions among the experts during the whole project life cycle as well as periodical appropriate digests of them for easier reference

8 A multi-dimensional evaluation methodology and framework for open service platforms for the provision of active and independent living services

9 The ReAAL Replication Guidelines

10 Concrete joint and individual exploitation plans of the consortium partners for benefiting from the above results

Work Packages


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Questions?

Mohammad-Reza (Saied) Tazari

Fraunhofer-Institut für

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Fraunhoferstraße 5

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[email protected]

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