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In questo documento viene posta particolare attenzione alla malattia dello scompenso cardiaco che è una delle maggiori cause di mortalità e disabilità nella popolazione anziana oltre ad essere la prima causa di ricovero. Sono analizzate le soluzioni di monitoraggio domestico attualmente disponibili e i requisiti tecnici da soddisfare per poter raccogliere e analizzare i dati fisiologici nell'ambiente di vita e riconoscere situazioni di insorgenza o peggioramento di patologie nell'anziano.

Questo documento riporta l'analisi relativa alla progettazione del framework di integrazione delle funzionalità, come previsto dal progetto ChAALenge. In particolare, vengono in questa sede analizzate le tecnologie per lo sviluppo del middleware di comunicazione e le modalità di interfacciamento con le soluzioni sensoristiche individuate.

Il deliverable ha come obiettivo la definizione di un percorso intraprendibile per lo sviluppo di un modello predittivo, efficace ed efficiente, basato sul paradigma machine learning, sviluppato in funzione del dominio applicativo in esame e dei dati a disposizione. Una parte verrà dedicata all'introduzione degli aspetti principali legati alle strategie di individuazione di anomalie in serie temporali multi-variate tramite il suddetto modello predittivo.

Indoor localisation is a thriving field, whose progresses are mainly led by innovations in sensor technology, both hardware and software. With a focus on smartphone-based personal navigation, we examine the evolution of sensing technologies in eleven leading applications. In order to select applications we choose among independently-tested prototypes, as opposed to simulation or laboratory-only experiments. To this end, we look at the best performers in the smartphone-based Tracks of IPIN competitions. This selection is particularly severe and significant, as this competition Track is performed live, without an opportunity for competitors to instrument or prepare the site or to know the path in advance and with only two attempts allowed, of which the best result is taken. An independent actor holds in hand the smartphone running the competing system, and results are downloaded from the phone immediately after the competition path is completed, without any post-processing. We show how sensing technologies have evolved from 2014 to 2019 and show a trend towards improving accuracy performance. Last, we provide insight in the role that sensors and algorithms play in the evolution of smartphone-based indoor localisation solutions.

The last ten years have seen enormous technical progress in the field of indoor positioning and indoor navigation; yet, in contrast with outdoor well-established GNSS solutions, no technology exists that is cheap and accurate enough for the general market. The potential applications of indoor localization are all-encompassing, from home to wide public areas, from IoT and personal devices to surveillance and crowd behavior applications, and from casual use to mission-critical systems. This Special Issue encourages authors, from academia and industry, to submit new research results about innovations for indoor positioning and navigation. The Special Issue topics include but are not limited to: Location-based services and applications; Benchmarking, assessment, evaluation, standards; User requirements; UI, indoor maps, and 3D building models; Human motion monitoring and modeling; Robotics and UAV; Indoor navigation and tracking methods; Self-contained sensors; Wearable and multisensor systems; Privacy and security for ILS.

Lo scopo di questo documento è riportare la descrizione delle attività progettuali svolte al fine di identificare e validare le soluzioni sensoristiche da integrare nella calzatura. In particolare, tenendo in considerazione le specifiche fornite nel precedente documento D1.1, sono stati considerati due tipologie di sensori: 1) sensori piezoresistivi per la rilevazione della forza di contatto piede-suolo; 2) sensori inerziali per l'analisi dinamica dei movimenti effettuati dal piede durante la camminata. Di queste due categorie di sensori vengono mostrate le principali caratteristiche, il loro principio di funzionamento e i risultati dei test effettuati.

Questo documento ha lo scopo di presentare i risultati dei test dei sistemi di monitoraggio di lungo periodo (come specificato nelle attività dell'OO5), con particolare riferimento agli algoritmi per l'identificazione degli indicatori di salute e benessere derivati dai monitoraggi di breve periodo che hanno permesso di effettuare un'analisi su lungo periodo per i soggetti volontari coinvolti. Inoltre, si presentano i dettagli della valutazione sperimentale del servizio di monitoraggio nutrizionale e composizione corporea, dei fattori di stress e delle interazioni sociali.

In questo documento presentiamo i risultati dell'Attività 3.1: "Definizione dell'architettura del sistema ICT per la gestione del sistema edificio". In particolare, viene definita l'architettura generale della piattaforma ICT per la raccolta e gestione dei dati da dispositivi IoT. Inoltre, sono presentate le tecnologie principali che costituiscono la piattaforma ICT, sia in termini di protocolli di comunicazione che di piattaforma software per la gestione ed erogazione di servizi ad applicazioni distribuite. Infine, vengono presentati i modelli di interazione fra le varie componenti che costituiscono la piattaforma ICT e gli attori del sistema.

In questo documento sono riportate le attività svolte nell'ambito dell'OO4 durante il secondo anno del progetto INTESA, mirate alla finalizzazione del sistema integrato di monitoraggio della qualità e durata del sonno. Durante questo periodo, partendo dall'architettura del sistema definita nel precedente documento D4.1.1, si è conclusa l'attività di sviluppo e sono stati effettuati i test per la verifica delle funzionalità del sistema e l'integrazione con gli altri componenti della piattaforma INTESA.

This volume contains the Work-in-Progress papers presented at IPIN 2019, the Tenth International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (http://ipin2019.isti.cnr.it/posters) held in Pisa, Italy, on September 30th-October 3rd, 2019.

In questo documento presentiamo i risultati dell'Attività 3.2: "Sviluppo della sensoristica per il monitoraggio dei consumi energetici" e dell'Attività 3.3: "Sviluppo del middleware di comunicazione e di gestione di grossi volumi da sensori eterogenei ". In particolare, vengono presentati i vari standard di comunicazione radio per dispositivi IoT che sono stati integrati nella nostra piattaforma, e per ogni tecnologia vengono descritti i sensori ed attuatori che sono integrati nella piattaforma. Inoltre, viene descritta l'architettura software dei componenti che permettono di integrare le diverse tecnologie di comunicazione IoT (ZigBee, ZWave e 6LoWPAN) con il Middleware di comunicazione e gestione dei dati di tipo publish/subscribe che è stato adottato come riferimento per la piattaforma ICT di raccolta e gestione dei dati. Infine, viene descritta l'architettura software della dashboard, cioè una applicazione web il cui scopo principale è la visualizzazione e manipolazione, attraverso un'interfaccia web, delle serie temporali e dei metadati dei dispositivi (sensori e attuatori) di una rete di sensori.

Il documento contiene l'analisi dei requisiti del progetto e la definizione dei parametri biometrici/biomeccanici da rilevare, della piattaforma sensoristica necessaria, dell'interfaccia utente e il database per la memorizzazione delle informazioni.

In questo documento sono riportate le attività svolte nell'ambito dell'OO4 durante il secondo anno del progetto INTESA. In questo periodo, partendo dall'architettura del sistema definita nel precedente documento D4.4.1, si è conclusa l'attività di sviluppo e sono stati effettuati i test per la verifica delle funzionalità del sistema e l'integrazione con gli altri componenti della piattaforma INTESA. Il sistema è stato installato con successo presso la RSA ed è rimasto attivo durante tutto il periodo di sperimentazione permettendo agli operatori ed al personale medico di attuare gli esercizi proposti dal protocollo INTESA con i soggetti partecipanti e fornendo ai servizi di monitoraggio di lungo periodo le informazioni raffinate previste.

Lo scopo di questo documento è la rassegna dello stato dell'arte delle tecniche per l'analisi del cammino, in particolare per l'estrazione degli indicatori individuati nel precedente documento D1.1. Inoltre, considerando i sensori selezionati per l'installazione nella scarpa, sono illustrate le metodologie per adattare gli algoritmi disponibili in letteratura al contesto di Ki-Foot.

This document extends the deliverable D3.2.1 - Environmental Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) prototypes describing: i) the outcomes of the final iteration of the sensors selection for developing the environmental monitoring system of NESTORE; ii) the integrated system tests on the selected sensors. The selection followed the recommendations coming from the WP2 activities in terms of needed monitoring variables and unobtrusiveness. The document also presents the chosen technologies and their integration in the system using available off-the-shelf and custom devices by means of the Web of Things paradigm.

This document describes the outcomes of the first iteration of the sensors selection for developing the environmental monitoring system of NESTORE. The selection followed the recommendations coming from the WP2 activities in terms of needed monitoring variables and tries to address the requirements coming from the WP6 co-design approach. The document also presents an overview of the chosen technologies and their integration in the system using available off-the-shelf devices by means of the Web of Things paradigm.

Il documento descrive i modelli di monitoraggio delle varie attività svolte dai soggetti. Si presentano quindi le soluzioni tecnologiche esistenti (stato dell'arte) e le soluzioni proposte nel progetto, con particolare riferimento ai requisiti specifici della popolazione coinvolta e della struttura RSA. In particolare, il documento riporta i risultati dello studio dello stato dell'arte nei domini delle quattro attività previste dall'obiettivo operativo 5: monitoraggio delle interazioni sociali; monitoraggio delle attività giornaliere; analisi e definizioni di indicatori comportamentali per il benessere; inclusione sociale. Per affinità nei domini di alcune di queste attività e comodità di lettura, il documento è strutturato in modo da fornire dapprima una panoramica dello stato dell'arte nel monitoraggio comportamentale su lungo periodo, scopo generale dell'obiettivo operativo, dopodichè offre un focus su: stato dell'arte nel monitoraggio delle attività giornaliere previste nel progetto INTESA, in termini di correlazioni su breve e lungo periodo; stato dell'arte nel dominio del monitoraggio delle interazioni sociali, sia in termini di soluzioni esistenti legate al monitoraggio che ai servizi di inclusione sociale; stato dell'arte sulle soluzioni esistenti in letteratura per la definizione e l'analisi sul lungo periodo di indicatori comportamentali multidimensionali per il benessere, sia in termini di modelli che di strumenti per visualizzare e fornire indicazioni utili al personale medico.

Questo documento ha lo scopo di presentare le specifiche dello sviluppo dei sistemi di monitoraggio di lungo periodo (come specificato nelle attività dell'OO5), con particolare riferimento agli algoritmi per l'identificazione degli indicatori di salute e benessere derivati dai monitoraggi di breve periodo che hanno permesso di effettuare un'analisi su lungo periodo per i soggetti volontari coinvolti. Inoltre, si presentano i dettagli dello sviluppo del servizio di monitoraggio nutrizionale e composizione corporea, dei fattori di stress e delle interazioni sociali. Il primo ha contribuito al monitoraggio di lungo periodo, coinvolgendo molti utenti della struttura, oltre al gruppo selezionato. Il secondo sistema è stato invece utilizzato al contorno dei monitoraggi di breve periodo, come strumento di personalizzazione delle attività di riabilitazione motoria e cognitiva.

No standard methods for evaluating indoor localization systems are generally accepted and used by researchers and industry. The lack of common test beds is a problem when evaluating the relative performance of different systems. As a step towards tackling this problem, the EvAAL Indoor Localization competition was launched in 2011, followed by the ongoing series of IPIN competitions. The EvAAL evaluation framework defines tools and metrics usable for comparing both real-time systems and off-line methods based on recorded data. The EvAAL framework is discussed in its incarnation along the various editions of the EvAAL and IPIN competitions, together with a discussion on the performance and technologies used by the competing systems.

In questo documento sono riportate le attività, inquadrate nell'OO4, svolte durante il primo anno di progetto e consistite nella definizione della piattaforma di raccolta ed elaborazione dei dati per il sistema di analisi stabilometrica. In particolare, sono mostrati i dispositivi selezionati per l'acquisizione dei segnali, i sottosistemi progettatti per memorizzare, trasferire e analizzare le informazioni raccolte e gli algoritmi utilizzati per l'estrazione dei parametri rappresentativi del grado di stabilità di un individuo.

Rapporto intermedio del progetto regionale SCIADRO.

In questo documento sono riportate le attività svolte durante il primo anno di progetto, relativamente all'OO4, per quanto riguarda la progettazione dell'architettura del sistema di monitoraggio del sonno. In particolare, sono illustrati il prototipo del dispositivo progettato per l'acquisizione non invasiva dei segnali dal letto, i sottosistemi che si occupano di memorizzare, trasferire e analizzare le informazioni raccolte e gli algoritmi utilizzati per l'estrazione dei parametri rappresentativi della qualità del sonno.

Deliverable D4.3 describes the process of training, model selection and validation adopted to identify the most adequate setting (and fitting of the parameters) for the activity recognition components developed in WP4 and deployed in the DOREMI pilot phase. A detailed account of the experimental assessment of the expected performances on DOREMI laboratory data collected by task 6.1 (as per DoW) is provided. The deliverable also reports basic aggregated statistics on the data generated by the activity recognition and reasoning components during the DOREMI pilot experimental phases. Finally, it is provided a post-hoc assessment of the unsupervised exploratory data analysis and reasoning components following the UK pilots.

Most of the large cities of today have to face with immense problems in terms of development, traffic, social services, security, pollution, climate, health, and many more. Many European cities are currently developing strategies towards becoming "smart cities"; such strategies are based on an assessment of the future needs of the cities, an innovative usage of the ICT technologies, the development of new applications, and a multidisciplinary approach to the solution of the problems. An important aspect of this innovation process is the high level of active involvement of the citizens in the process itself, being them the final users of the complex ecosystem in which the smart cities are evolving. Since the end of 1990s, many cities have initiated smart initiatives. In the Digital Agenda of the European Commission, cities are considered as innovation drivers in areas such as environment, inclusion, health and business.

This document reports on the final version of the sensor network and the GiraffPlus integrated system.The final version delivered at month 36incorporates the input from the last evaluation phase leading to a refined system.The final version of the middleware infrastructure integrates a more complete set of sensors and functionalities. Indeed, the control bus functionality has been implemented and tested with new sensors and actuators, a new wearable technology capable of continuous heart rate monitoring has been analyzed, and a new web monitoring tool for checking the status of the test sites has been deployed. The final version of the Giraff platform is also described,addressing safety issues and general improvements requests coming from the last evaluation phase.In addition, final considerations on the assessment of security and safety in the GiraffPlus system are also presented as an appendix.

This deliverable follows the same structure of D2.2, since it is an update on the status of the activities defined therein: Platform support framework, Training framework, and Open source strategy. There were almost no changes in the Platform support framework itself. After a short introduction to the (few) updates in the support framework, a set of statistics of the status on all the different issue trackers is presented, followed by a list of all issues opened and updated within the period of analysis of this version. Updates on the Training framework itself are few as well, but these are followed by a list of all available sources of training materials set up by different tasks in ReAAL. A short list of events where coaching was provided is also available. Finally the activities maintaining the Open Source community around the platform are described, including the next steps to follow.

This document is the second internal report (version B) describing the platform official release. It provides links to the software as well as a brief explanation about the management of the universAAL releases. This document has been prepared by reviewing the internal deliverable ID2.2a with updates concerning the release 3.2.0. Most of the contents have remained the same.

Official administrative representation of the first initial version of the platform software release. All links to the software are included and explained, and finally listed as references for quick use. The particularities and issues found while producing this initial release are explained and the set of planned releases (future versions of D2.3 and the intermediate ID2.2) is introduced.

AALOA, the Ambient Assisted Living Open source Association, was born to create an environment to foster initiatives linked to AAL. AALOA offers an environment where people and organizations can start an AAL project. Most projects are expected to be software projects, to be released using a Free / Libre / Opens Source software licence, but other types of activities, like research, conference organization, standardization and lobbying are envisioned as well. This paper illustrates the idea of the Ambient Assisted Living Open Association, the actions initiated by AALOA and those planned for the future. The main focus is on the exploitation possibilities which AALOA provides to the outcome of several European and non-European projects. A collaboration here would be a win-win situation. On one side, AALOA has already appropriate prominence and is linked to European strategies which can help to group people and associations around different project results and to position them in the right way and manner. On the other side AALOA is depending on the community and on the projects it hosts. To demonstrate this ambition and to give a demonstration for other European projects, the paper presents the identified exploitable results of the universAAL FP7 project and their planned incubation in AALOA.

Ambient Assisted Living applications are deployed in smart environments that provide some basic services, a typical example being user localization. AAL applications generally have low accuracy requirements for indoor localization; this opens the opportunity for parasitizing the existing smart environment infrastructure without adding dedicated positioning sensors. In this scenario, one can exploit simple binary sensors that are usually present in the smart environment, such as light and appliance switches or intrusion detection sensors, to obtain a rough estimate of the position of the user. This application is device-free, meaning that the user is not required to carry any device in order to be localized. In this paper we present CEO, a software-only system which we evaluate along the technical guidelines of the EvAAL competition. While the localization performance of CEO is lower with respect to most EvAAL competitors of past editions, it has the benefit of being non-intrusive, easy to install and perfectly compatible with other software systems: these characteristics would made it a potentially significant EvAAL competitor. While developing CEO, we only exploited the definition of the EvAAL competition environment as it was presented to competitors. The only inputs to CEO are the context events generated during the competition, which in 2012 and 2013 were limited to pressing light switches and using a stationary bicycle. We compare the performance of CEO against the results of those editions of EvAAL and show how it can be used to easily improve the performance of any EvAAL competitor.

This document reports on the third prototype of the system that is currently deployed in all test sites. The third prototype at month 30 provides the final version of the network system and the second and final version of the Giraff platform. A middleware solution helps to integrate the software components developed by the WP3 and WP4 and enhanced Giraff platform with safer and semi-autonomous mobility features. The prototype includes the Giraff robot, the Look4Myhealth kit, the monitoring sensors from Tunstall, additional environmental sensors, a physiological sensor for pulse oximetry measurements based on Android, the context recognition and configuration planning modules, and the remote storage and repository to collect user data. Additionally a new wearable sensor containing an inertial system is also introduced. It can be carried out by the primary user and used to give additional information regarding the user activities. The final version of the middleware is presented and the semi-autonomy features for the Giraff robot are described.

This deliverable is a technical document describing the features of the common platform used in ReAAL for the applications deployed in the seven pilots. It is structured in four main sections: 1° the first section provides an overview of the architecture and main concept of universAAL. 2° the second section consists in a detailed set of universAAL existing features. 3° the third section provides the new features required from an open platform for the deployment of applications within the seven pilots. 4° the fourth section concerns the set of criteria for the technical assessment of the platform features. This section is useful for WP5. The deliverable has been elaborated after the delivery of D1.2 which is the main inspiration of the work performed for this D2.1 deliverable. In D1.2, the pilot architecture and application requirements have been analysed with the pilot managers and technical partners. This deliverable has been created mainly by universAAL partners and non-universAAL partners which have however profound knowledge of AAL platform needs. The features of the section 2 and 3 are structured into 7 main topics which are important for the pilot application deployments. Architecture: the main questions are related to the nodes on which the platform should run. Configuration, Personalisation: specific features are needed for the developers, the installer, or the users to be able to configure and personalised the applications to the users needs. Maintainability, Scalability: It is needed to have tools to be able to maintain the platform, to monitor errors, to deploy the applications, easily and at low cost for thousands users. Interoperability: the platform provides already several features to enable the interoperability of applications but Pilots have also specific extra requirements. Shared Communication Infrastructure: this topic concerns the communication protocol used in the platform between nodes. Privacy and Security: These topics are generally expressed as top-priority, even if how they should be implemented is sometimes difficult to be defined. Context Information and Management: This concerns requirements on data representation and storage.

For the third consecutive year, the Wireless Networks laboratory of the Institute of Information and Technologies (ISTI) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) was the main organising force behind the EvAAL competition, an effort financed by the universAAL FP7 project and embedded into the AALOA association.

This document is about supporting the start up of AALOA, an AAL Open Association. It explains the rationale behind this effort, sketches an initial comparison with similar organisations, examines the problems that we will find on the road and what are the main issues. It is a practical, short guide to the FLOSS (Free/Libre/Open Source Software) communities and introduces the software commodity and coopetition concepts, which are used to justify the needs of a convergence process towards a common shared platform for AAL. These concepts in addition to the AAL market fragmentation are the essence of the call for action expressed from the Manifesto of AALOA, which is reported in the appendix A. This document clarifies also the changes to the initial strategy of universAAL for creating a community of interested developers around its own platform as proposed in Description of Work. AALOA does not represent the specific community of universAAL project. AALOA will be the community of communities and universAAL will be one of those communities working in synergy for preparing the AAL market breakthrough. The document additionally reports about the status of the AALOA community, the current governing board composition, the communication infrastructures and tools activated, and the list of projects already incubated in AALOA. It sketches a road map for the association and gives an overview on what one should expect from it.

Deliverable D9.3 "Exploitation Plan" is about how the universAAL partners intend to exploit the project results both from a commercial and from a research point of view. It is responsible for defining the exploitation strategy, and the steps to be done during project lifetime and beyond in order to implement such strategy. The most relevant exploitable results are uStore, Developer Depot, the Runtime Execution Platform, AAL Studio and some of the AAL Services; a detailed view of exploitable results is provided and refined during the project lifetime.

The goal of universAAL is defining and implementing a reference architecture and platform for AAL applications that becomes widely accepted in the whole AAL community, and to define and realize on such platform a number of services that prove its validity and open business opportunities. To do that, it is essential that the universAAL architecture, platform, and services are supported by communities of different stakeholders (ranging from developers to industries, service providers, end users, etc.) that guarantee a development of universAAL even after the end of the project. For this reason universAAL implements tasks that realize specific community building strategies for different sets of stakeholders (such as tasks 8.1, 8.2, and 8.4). The EvAAL competition (Evaluating AAL Systems through Competitive Benchmarking), which is implemented in Task 8.5 and described in this deliverable, supports the community building activities. In fact, EvAAL has the role of expanding the community and attracting stakeholders around the universAAL architecture and platform. The evaluation and comparison of complex AAL systems is still far from being a reality, this implies that, at the present, the universAAL architecture and platform can hardly be compared with other solutions, and thus even the impact of new solutions and strategies to be adopted in the universAAL development can hardly be evaluated. EvAAL aims at advancing the state of the art in the evaluation and comparison of AAL platforms and architectures. In particular, one of the goals of the EvAAL competition is to generate an environment in which the researchers, students, and even industries can compare their solutions and exchange ideas on which such comparisons may become feasible. For this reason, EvAAL adopts a step by step approach, by dividing the problem into smaller pieces. First, it promotes competitions on specific topics in order to create a large data set and to create benchmarks and evaluation methodologies, then EvAAL will be able to evaluate and compare more complex (and even complete) AAL solutions. From the point of view of WP 2, 3, and 4, (development work package of universAAL) the creation of data sets, benchmarks, and evaluation methodologies, achieved by EvAAL, will become the mean to evaluate the quality of their findings, thus EvAAL results are also inputs for the validation work package (WP5). Moreover, EvAAL will also promote the use of the universAAL platform since it will base the benchmarking and evaluation of competing artefacts on the tools and platform developed in WP2 and WP3.

Indoor localization systems that involve Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) identify the target position by mea- suring the Received Signal Strength (RSS), the Time of Arrival (ToA), the Time Difference of Arrival (TDoA) or the Angle of Arrival (AoA). Of these, the most promising for low-cost applications are those based on RSS measures, which exploit approximate path loss models, or more reliably the relationship between the multi-path interference (shadowing) and the target position. These methods can work with WSNs based on Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and ZigBee wireless technologies. In this paper we concentrate on device-free RSS-based indoor localization methods. These methods, which have generated much research interest in the last few years, are now starting to hit the market. Specifically, the purpose of this paper is to assess the perfor- mance improvements of a Variance-based Radio Tomographic Imaging technique, when scanning various radio channels with respect to using only one, the latter being the "minimum introduced interference" option. In our setup, the data used for target localization are captured by wireless sensors deployed in the localization area, which are in line of sight among them. The localization error metrics include the mean square error and percentiles of the error distribution.

One problem which slows down the creation of the AAL market is fragmentation of research efforts and the lack of a standardised approach for developers. To address this, we founded the AALOA (AAL Open Association). The vision of AALOA is to create a ecosystem for the domain of assistive technology for independent living. Community building activities as well as the hosting of AAL related projects like EvAAL and several open source software projects1 has been used to attract different stakeholders of the AAL community. Two main initiatives for the AALOA community building and promotion of the idea among all stakeholder groups has been brought forth so far. The AMB11 workshop, organised together with the eInclusion unit of the EC and the Lecce Declaration, which gained support from 44 projects mostly at the EU level.

Healthy and active ageing is one of the main challenges for most industrialised nations and a key issue on Europe's agenda for the period 2014-2020. The number of people aged 60 and over in the {EU} is now rising by more than two million every year. This raises the question of how to transform this challenge to our societies into a driver of economy and create a win-win situation? One of the envisioned solutions is the application of assistive technology combined with newly created services to allow people to live an independent life for as long as possible. Research in this area involves many {ICT} related {R&D} disciplines and has attracted much attention in the last couple of years. Several initiatives have emerged to tackle the challenges involved, and significant incremental progress has been made on many fronts. But a major breakthrough, leading to a standardised approach and thereby to widespread adoption, is still not in sight. One of the main problems from the technological point of view is fragmentation. The mission of {AALOA}, the {Ambient Assisted Living Open Association}, is to address this situation by bringing together the resources, tools and people involved in {Ambient Asssisted Living (AAL)} in a single forum that makes it much easier to reach conclusions on provisions needed to achieve progress. A concrete technical objective is to promote a common platform or middleware that is distributed as open source software

One problem which slows down the creation of the AAL market is fragmentation of research efforts and the lack of a standardised approach for developers. To address this, we founded the AALOA (AAL Open Association). The vision of AALOA is to create a ecosystem for the domain of assistive technology for independent living. Community building activities as well as the hosting of AAL related projects like EvAAL and several open source software projects1 has been used to attract different stakeholders of the AAL community. Two main initiatives for the AALOA community building and promotion of the idea among all stakeholder groups has been brought forth so far. The AMB11 workshop, organised together with the eInclusion unit of the EC and the Lecce Declaration, which gained support from 44 projects mostly at the EU level.

Deliverable 9.2 is created in the scope of WP 9, Dissemination and Exploitation. This work package aims at disseminating the universAAL project objectives and results. Thereby, awareness about the benefits of ambient assisted living (AAL) in general, and universAAL in particular, shall be created for all relevant stakeholders. The objectives of this work package are: . To effectively plan and organize exploitation of universAAL results . To effectively disseminate universAAL achievements This document presents the achievements of the work on dissemination regarding generic dissemination plans. Specifically, this document includes the following: -Dissemination policy and goals -Target groups -Dissemination activities -Dissemination of the AALOA community -Dissemination monitoring and evaluation -Individual approach for each partner The section "Dissemination policy and goals" describes the guidelines and protocols developed and adopted for spreading out the awareness of universAAL project, specially focusing on commercial and scientific dissemination. The purpose of the chapter "Target Groups" is to identify main dissemination target groups, to describe their interests and to specify methods to address these interests. "Dissemination activities" describes initiatives and strategies taken with the aim of spreading out the project. The AALOA community is a key element to guarantee the acceptance of universAAL results and their adoption after the end of the project. A section of this document is dedicated to the dissemination of the AALOA community. Dissemination monitoring and evaluation is needed in order to track the number and quality of dissemination activities throughout the whole project, as well as throughout individual partners. This section introduces the required templates and establishes the approach toward dissemination consisting of regular updates and evaluation of the templates by a group of experts. Finally, this document presents the individual dissemination plans for each partner of the universAAL consortium.

Deliverable 9.1 is created in the scope of WP 9, Dissemination and Exploitation. This work package aims at disseminating the universAAL project objectives and results. Thereby awareness about the benefits of ambient assisted living (AAL) in general and universAAL in particular shall be created for all relevant stakeholders. The objectives of this work package are: . Effectively plan and organize exploitation of universAAL results . Effectively disseminate universAAL achievements This document presents the achievements of the work on dissemination regarding generic dissemination material that is produced for the project as a whole. Specifically this includes the following: . universAAL website (www.universaal.org) . AALOA website . universAAL brochure (a two sided DIN A4 inlay for presentation folders giving the basic project information) . universAAL leaflet (a small 6 sided handout giving the basic project information) . General project presentation . PowerPoint template . Newsletter The universAAL website is the main starting point for people interested in the project. It describes the project objectives, related news and events, as well as providing detailed information of the different project parts. It includes links to and information about the universAAL developer depot and the uStore. Additionally the AALOA website is maintained by the universAAL consortium within the project runtime, a work shared by work packages 8 & 9. The plan is to move the site to AALOA once the project is concluded. The universAAL leaflet and brochure give a general overview of the project and are intended for being handed out at conferences and exhibitions. In order to enable a consistent dissemination WP9 furthermore provides a generic PowerPoint template that is to be used for all project related presentations, as well as a general universAAL presentation that is intended to streamline the introduction to the project on certain events and accordingly help the different presenters.

A device-free localization method mainly devoted to Ambi- ent Assisted Living applications is here presented. The system exploits the Received Signal Strength (RSS) coming from fixed devices, whose position is a priori known, to localize a person in the coverage area. In particular, we propose a device-free localization system that minimize the number of fixed devices in order to achieve the accuracy required. This system exploits the variance of the measured RSS induced by the user movements to sense in which area the user is. The main benefit of this technique is from the point of view of the user acceptance, since the users don't need mobile device to carry on. Moreover, a priori evaluation of the accuracy performance, modulated in accordance with the needs of the AAL applications, can be obtained. The proposed system is then validated by an indoor experimental study that analyzes the achieved performance.

Evaluating Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) systems is challenging due to the complexity and variety of solutions adopted and services offered. EvAAL is an international competition aimed to address this problem evaluating and assessing the AAL systems components, services and platforms. In 2011 took place the first edition of EvAAL on the special theme of Indoor Localization and Tracking for AAL. This paper describes the technical aspects of the first edition of EvAAL and draws a roadmap for the future editions.

The deliverable D9.3 - Exploitation Plan - is accumulating business and research goals of the main universAAL results. This includes the uStore, Developer Depot, reference model and innovative services. The deliverable will clearly identify markets and strategies to target all relevant stakeholders to increase uptake in the European market and show how this will provide a competitive advantage. The current document D9.3A is the first iteration of this deliverable, due in M12. Its main contents are: . an overview of the consortium and its aims; . an embryonic description of the business idea which is the result of preliminary discussions inside the consortium and which will be much expanded in later iterations of this document; . an initial market analysis based on five interviews made with European businesses and on other documents available to the partners; . a preliminary analysis of individual partners exploitation plans which is currently (M14) being rediscussed inside the consortium; . a SWOT analysis that will be revised at each yearly iteration

This document reports the structure and organization of AAL competition (hereafter called EvAAL, that stands for Evaluating AAL Systems through Competitive Benchmarking). It first summarizes the purpose of EvAAL with respect to both the other deliverables of the community building and to the architecture, platform and services of universAAL. Then, this document discusses the background of EvAAL, in particular how EvAAL fits the community building strategy and its purpose from a technical point of view. Then it discuss the organization and structure of EvAAL, summarizing the structure of the committees and their roles, the financial aspects, specifying how to drive the future competitions, and the modalities of marketing of EvAAL. Lastly it explains how the first EvAAL competition has been organized, specifying the location chosen, the organization of the web-site, the call for competition, the evaluation criteria, and the dataset we produced. Finally, the roadmap to the next competition is given.

EvAAL (Evaluating AAL Systems Through Competitive Benchmarking) is an international competition aimed at the evaluation and assessment of Ambient Assisted Living systems components, services and platforms. In 2011 took place the first edition of EvAAL on the special theme of Indoor Localization and Tracking for AAL. This paper describes the technical aspects of the first edition of EvAAL and draws a roadmap for the future editions.