17th SEPTEMBER 2014

Xavier Rafael-Palou

Barcelona Digital Technology Centre

BDIGITAL: Expanding Boundaries

SAAPHO a 3-years EU project founded by AAL (Ambient Assisted Living) composed by partners from Spain, Germany, Sweden and Slovenia

ObjectiveImprove quality of life of the elderly living alone at their own home.

Why?- Quality of life decreases as people get older loneliness, illnesses but

also lose of independence, activity, communication- People with low quality of life requires more care- Not enough public resources to take care of all population over sixty- Private health-care is not financially affordable by most seniors- Currently neither public or private health solutions cover all elderly

needs - IT solutions aims to be an alternative to support elderly to enjoy

their age.

SAAPHO

SAAPHO • Complex open problem -> users with especial accessibility needs,

difficulties on deploying at end user homes (unstable/poor internet connection, fails/disruption on wireless protocols, complex devices to configure), privacy issues on monitoring, massive data, ubiquitous computing…

SAAPHO is an integrated and accessible IT system composed by a set of intelligent services to provide to the elderly a

healthier, secure and participative life from their homes.

SAAPHO I. Solution

SAAPHO

- Incremental and iterative methodology- User Centred Design - Semester presential plenary meetings- 3 prototypes (Clear roadmaps, strict deadlines and milestones)- Bi-weekly online technical meetings- Others: Research visits, Integration technical meetings, testing

sessions, presential installations, video- tutorials, video recording sessions

II. Methodology

SAAPHO III. Main System Requirements

Decoupled architecture. Independent but interoperable components that easily enable update, replace or even aggregate new ones.

Open system. Generic interfaces and technologies compatible with diverse communication protocols, services and sensors from the market.

User data privacy. Secure transmission protocols and data cyphering to provide a secure and trustable environment.

Low Cost. Wired and proprietary technologies replaced by open source alternatives and wireless protocols (e.g. Wi-Fi, Z-Wave, Bluetooth) Market Oriented. SAAPHO works with available EC products in the market.

Touchable & Personalised interface. SAAPHO seniors interact with multi –touchable user interface that offers direct interaction experience and interfaces adapted to the accessibility needs of these users allowing a better technology acceptance to reduce initial barriers.

SAAPHO IV. Architecture

SAAPHO User Interface

- Developed to be delivered through Android tablets given their low cost, portability, direct interaction and ease of use

- usability and accessibility, the graphic user interface holds homogenous and easy to use screens by means of simple to recognize icons, texts and colors

- The tablet application also has a settings section to personalize features (such as size and volume) and a help section with video-tutorials of the system

SAAPHO Middleware

- Securely interconnects the sensor devices and services. - Main components:

- Traffic dispatcher that handles the requests of information from the user interface and from the services.

- Security manager which controls the session IDs to uniquely identify each component and UUIDs that identify the users.

- User interface recommender creates personalised messages with information coming from services considering user language, name, and gender.

SAAPHO Health Services

SAAPHO provides intelligent health care services to assist older people in activities related to the health:

- Real time feedback generation service- Historical summary calculation service - Recommendation generation service

SAAPHO Social services

SAAPHO offers services to communicate and to be informed

- Social services provided are photo sharing, personalised news, video-conference, email, instant message and social notifications

- Social data is collected, anonymised and analysed under previous authorisation to enhance user experience and promote communication proactivity.

SAAPHO Security services

SAAPHO ensures the safety and well-being of the users.• CE marked sensors (gas, smoke, panic button) and ambient parameters (motion, temperature, humidity, luminosity and doors).• Home Wireless Sensor Communication with central unit (Collector) using Z-Wave.• Smart Safety gateway to collect and analyse data for detection of emergencies and abnormal situations.

SAAPHO V. Deployment

SAAPHO VI. Results

- First and second year prototype were easy to use according to usability test parameters of effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction.

- Results from final prototype indicates that SAAPHO was very well accepted among the participants (Spain and Slovenia); easy to use; most of the offered services were extremely useful; responded to the older people’ needs and promoted active ageing.

VII. Conclusions

- Requirements from > 200 seniors- Final prototype installed at 6 Homes

from 2 countries (Spain & Slovenia)- 2 months of collected real data- Elderly impressions :

- Enthusiastic with final result- Interfaces easy to use & intuitive- Services were very applicable for

their daily life- Elderly is willing to have /pay for a solution like SAAPHO at their

place

SAAPHO

- SAAPHO project has reached its final stage with a successful prototype close to the market

- Looking for further collaborations to keep improving the system, deploying it at more places and eventually reaching a commercial product

Thanks for your attention.

xrafael@bdigital.org

(SAAPHO, Technical Team Leader)

More information at:

http:\\www.saapho.com

SAAPHO

Acknowledgements to allSAAPHO TEAM

Specially:

Mentoring and support

- Felip Miralles, Guillem Serra

SAAPHO Management and organization:

Jesus Fernandez

Principal Bdigital SAAPHO research contributors:- Stefan Dauwalder, Marc Girones, Jose A. Cordero, Eloi Casals

E-Health department and colleagues

Joan Protasion, Javi Bautista and former SAAPHO contributors

Pierluigi Casale, Sergi Torrelles, Rafa, Cristina and Arnau

SAAPHO