Mission

MonAMI will select bouquets of services to support people at risk of exclusion and loss of autonomy. Step two is then to construct, test and deploy these services and demonstrate that they can be economically mainstreamed into future ambient intelligence technologies.

Objective

The objective of the MonAMI project is to demonstrate that accessible, useful services for elderly and disabled persons living at home can be delivered in mainstream systems and platforms. This will be done in close cooperation with users and by involving key mainstream actors throughout the whole process.

Services in different sectors

The selected services and applications will be developed with a Design for All approach together with potential users in the following areas:

• Comfort applications: home control, personalised communication interface,   activity planning
• Health: monitoring, medication
• Safety and security: safety at home, visitor validation, activity detection
• Communication and information

Current state of research

Previous European projects have shown that technological augmentation of the living space can help to alleviate these problems by supporting daily living tasks and increasing quality of life, thus reducing the need for institutional and other
care. So far, the results of these projects have often stayed in the laboratory or only been implemented on a small, local scale.

The main innovation of the MonAMI project lies in demonstrating how a complex mix of technologies, many of them so far only validated under laboratory conditions can be brought together in a socially and economically viable way to facilitate inclusive access for elderly and disabled citizens.

This involves an improved understanding of how new technologies fit into the social and economic framework, tailoring systems and interfaces specifically to the requirements of the elderly and the disabled as well as adaptation and integration of emerging technologies. Although the project does not focus on technology development, the required adaptation and integration work as well as the experience to be gained from real world deployment will result in significant technical innovations. This is particularly true for the field of Ambient Intelligence which is so far very much limited to laboratory demonstrators and experiments.