Ambient Assisted Living Healthcare Frameworks, Platforms, Standards, and Quality Attributes

Abstract

Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) is an emerging multi-disciplinary field aiming at exploiting information and communication technologies in personal healthcare and telehealth systems for countering the effects of growing elderly population. AAL systems are developed for personalized, adaptive, and anticipatory requirements, necessitating high quality-of-service to achieve interoperability, usability, security, and accuracy. The aim of this paper is to provide a comprehensive review of the AAL field with a focus on healthcare frameworks, platforms, standards, and quality attributes. To achieve this, we conducted a literature survey of state-of-the-art AAL frameworks, systems and platforms to identify the essential aspects of AAL systems and investigate the critical issues from the design, technology, quality-of-service, and user experience perspectives. In addition, we conducted an email-based survey for collecting usage data and current status of contemporary AAL systems. We found that most AAL systems are confined to a limited set of features ignoring many of the essential AAL system aspects. Standards and technologies are used in a limited and isolated manner, while quality attributes are often addressed insufficiently. In conclusion, we found that more inter-organizational collaboration, user-centered studies, increased standardization efforts, and a focus on open systems is needed to achieve more interoperable and synergetic AAL solutions.

From niche level innovations to age-friendly homes and neighbourhoods: a multi-level analysis of challenges, barriers and solutions

“…Age-friendly innovations subsequently address frailty, impairment and incapacity, do not match with the needs, desires and situations of older people, and consequently fail to translate into viable products and services that generate positive outcomes for all stakeholders involved. Addressing these issues is difficult and requires fundamental changes in design methodologies, practices and mind-set (Sixsmith 2013;Memon et al 2014). Moreover, if the age-friendly housing domain aims to achieve the desired gains of letting older people live independently in their preferred environment, changes in current regimes of incumbent health and housing systems are also needed (Memon et al 2014).…”

“…Addressing these issues is difficult and requires fundamental changes in design methodologies, practices and mind-set (Sixsmith 2013;Memon et al 2014). Moreover, if the age-friendly housing domain aims to achieve the desired gains of letting older people live independently in their preferred environment, changes in current regimes of incumbent health and housing systems are also needed (Memon et al 2014). …”

“…In the ongoing European policy discourse this is widely referred to as the challenge of scaling-up existing pilot projects (European Union 2015). Innovation development in this domain is currently mainly informed by a discourse that frames ageing in negative terms linked to ill-health and disability and many innovations are developed in isolation with no collaboration between different disciplines, commercial, governmental and academic organisations (Memon et al 2014;Sixsmith 2013). Age-friendly innovations subsequently address frailty, impairment and incapacity, do not match with the needs, desires and situations of older people, and consequently fail to translate into viable products and services that generate positive outcomes for all stakeholders involved.…”

“…However, many innovative solutions face major barriers when meeting market forces and the muddled complexities of everyday life, which has hindered innovation and broad implementation so far. Apparently these innovations do not become embedded in the dominant cultures, structures and practices of everyday life and thus failed to realise scale beyond the niche level in which they are currently being explored (Sixsmith 2013;Memon et al 2014).…”

Ambient Assisted Living using Sensor and Mobile Technologies for Elderly People

“…In this development, SQLite database can hold up to twenty sensor information. The developer will have to invoke the new sensor information from the SQLite database to the android graphical user interface [1,[3][4][5][6][7][8][13][14][15].…”