Description
ReAAL (make it ReAAL) is an European CIP project of the 7th Framework Program. The project is being carried out by a consortium of a total of 19 partners, with Fraunhofer IGD (Germany) as coordinator, and with duration of 36 months.
The ReAAL project intends to deploy a critical mass of Ambient Assisted Living applications and services for ca. 7000 users in 7 EU countries, based upon the universAAL platform, previously developed with EC support, with the intent of kick-starting the market for interoperable AAL services, applications and devices.
ReAAL will facilitate the emergence of an AAL ecosystem by showing the platform usefulness, and spreading the related technical knowledge through an associated community of interest. ReAAL will establish a multi-dimension evaluation methodology to measure the impact of the deployment of the AAL ecosystem in terms of the social, economic and health indicators.
End users are the stakeholders in the AAL ecosystem: citizens, formal and informal givers, service providers, technology providers and policy makers.
The beneficiaries will be those people who wish to be able to avoid dependency on nursing homes, preferring to continue to live independently in their own homes. ReAAL will be realised via a number of pilots, each with a different focus. Assistance might be needed in any aspect of daily life, from health safety and security to social integration and mobility support.
ReAAL will adapt the universAAL open platform that will be used by service providers to deploy interoperable services avoiding vendors-locks. Different scenarios can be foreseen: In case the service operator wants to integrate one of the actual services in place, the technology providers will use the guidelines and training material to create the bridge with the platform. After the interconnection, the service will be able to take profit of the interoperability features of the platform and use/provide information from/to other services or integrate it in a more complex value chain.
In case of a new service to be operated, the designers can create more innovative and cost effective solutions without the necessity of starting from scratch. The developers will have in mind the reuse of the technology already deployed that can be useful for their purposes.
In case of the delivery of one of the native services of the platform, the procurement officers will have the guarantee that a proven technology with a large capability of extensibility and integration has been chosen.
The Technologies for Health and Wellbeing Group (TSB) of the ITACA Institute is the technical coordinator of ReAAL and leader of the work package devoted to the platform provision. In addition to that, due to their expertise developing AAL services using universAAL platform, TSB will be the coordinator of the Spanish pilot cluster, providing coaching and support to the local stakeholders that are going to provide the applications.