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Full Name: | Ubiquitous Care System to Support Independent Living | |
Basic data: | Type of the project: | ICT FP7 project, Collaborative project (generic) |
| ICT: | ICT and ageing | |
| Project Reference: | 214986 | |
| Launch: | February 2008 | |
| Duration: | 36 months | |
| Consortium: | 10 partners from 8 countries | |
| Coordinator: | Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones Técnicas de Gipuzkoa, Spain | |
Website: | http://www.confidence-eu.org/ | |
Description: | The main objective of CONFIDENCE project is the development and integration of innovative technologies to build a care system for the detection of abnormal events (such as falls) or short and long term unexpected behaviours that could indicated health problems of elderly people. CONFIDENCE will be a cost effective, non-intrusive and reliable system that will increase the quality of life and security of the elderly and prolong their personal autonomy and participation in society and decrease the need of institutionalisation of the elderly. The proposed system will work both outdoors and indoors. Information about the user’s location, together with some environment information, will be analysed to decide whether to trigger an alarm. In case of an abnormal situation such as a fall or an accident, CONFIDENCE will permit a rapid actuation of the health services, which will decrease the negative consequences of the accident (worsening of injuries, psychological impact of being alone and injured, etc…). | |