Silver medal to ICT-solutions for elderly

The IS-ACTIVE project - Inertial Sensing Systems for Advanced Chronic Condition Monitoring and Risk Prevention - with partners from Norway, The Netherlands and Romania got second place in AAL Forum’s Award 2011.

IS-ACTIVE is an AAL-funded project with Norwegian partners from Norwegian Centre for Integrated Care and Telemedicine (NST) at the University Hospital of North Norway and Norut (Northern Research Institute). The project is lead by the University of Twente.

Real-time feedback

The project utilizes small wireless inertial sensors that provide distributed motion caption and intelligent recognition of activities and situations, using among others Tablet and PDA devices to give feedback to the users. The patients can receive real-time feedback in order to monitor, self-manage and improve their physical condition. The project focus is on patients with chronic conditions, and especially elderly with COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease).

IS-ACTIVE and Join-In are AAL-projects were NST/UNN and Norut participate

IS-ACTIVE and Join-In are related to Tromsø Telemedicine Laboratory

IS-ACTIVE was one of four finalists to AAL Forum AWARD 2011

The Norwegian partners are NST, University Hospital of North Norway and Norut (Northern Research Institute)

The AAL Joint Program

Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) is a European joint program for enhanced quality of life of older people in Europe through the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). AAL Forum is an annual conference that this year was arranged in Lecce, Italy.

Norwegian silver and bronze

The project HOPE – Smart home for elderly people, led by Greece, was the winner of the AAL Forum’s Award 2011, while the project CapMouse – Development of a Capacitive Oral Interface for Elderly and Disabled Persons, led by Norway, got the third place. The criteria for the awards were level of innovation, quality and market potential.

Contact

Tatjana M. Burkow, researcher and project manager at NST, phone: +47 957 29 041, e-mail: tatjana.m.burkow@telemed.no

Tips en venn

Skriv ut