AMiE - Ambient Intelligence for the Elderly

Project Description

The fundamental objective of the project was to develop a system that was able to offer remote assistance services to people with a certain degree of dependence (people of advanced age or individuals with special needs, etc.) so that they may lead an independent life.
AmIE proposes an intelligent and distributed system that allows:

• To integrate medical, monitoring and remote assistance devices into a single system.
• To interact in an intelligent and autonomous manner with users who require a certain degree of dependence.
• To offer new remote assistance services for these populations sectors.

Collaborating Companies or Organisations

Indra's Role

• Designing the service architecture for the AmIE system.
• Designing the architecture for the "IVAS" intelligent voice alert system.
• Gathering the requirements and proposed suggestions for implementing the system in the AmIE architecture.
• Assessing technologies applicable to HCI, as well as selecting the most suitable.
• Preparing the technical specifications of the intelligent adaptive system, including "context management" as well as those aspects related to security.
• Implementing the intelligent adaptive system software.
• Collaborating in the development of the initial operation and dissemination plans, as well as the applicable market study for the project.

Universities and Technological Centres

Technologies used

• VoIP.
• Cognitive system capacities.
• Interoperability of medical devices.
• Advanced mobility and localisation features.
• Life ontologies.
• Zigbee, WiFi, RFID.
• IPTV.

More information

This project has been funded by the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Commerce as part of the 2008-2011 National Scientific Research, Development and Technological Innovation Plan.