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CARIOT+ Care Coach – An Ambient Assisted Living Ecosystem for Supporting Open Data and Open Science Projects

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ICT for Health, Accessibility and Wellbeing (IHAW 2021)

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Europe faces a demographic shift towards a population with more elderly and less working age people. This necessitates the development of relevant technology-based care services, utilizing ambient assisted living (AAL) concepts and technologies. AAL products often rely on third-party vendor services and cloud hosting, storing and retrieving measurements from these using application programming interfaces (API). This strategy is prone to breaking changes when the third-party vendor changes interfaces or licensing agreements, and can also present legal, privacy, and security problems for healthcare organizations. Using open and independent components represents an alternative approach, allowing the systems to work autonomously together with third-party systems, thereby securing data privacy and security, and allowing for easy replacement of components and services from third-party vendors. Technology, components, and services that support open standards and open data approaches allows for reuse in new systems, and for hosting them in the most relevant settings. The aim of this technical paper is to present the CARIOT+ Care Coach ecosystem for supporting open data and open science. The technical components forming the ecosystem are presented based on experiences gained during three AAL programme projects, the CAMI project, the HELP ME BRUSH project, and the ORASTAR project. The center piece is the CARIOT gateway which is designed for easy collection of ambient sensor data in the home setting, allowing third-party systems full control of the data flow and storage. The paper presents the preliminary experiences gained during the projects and discusses future relevant developments, including how third-party organizations can build on the CARIOT+ Care Coach ecosystem. Finally, the paper discusses how other projects can use the ecosystem to build new and open ambient assisted living systems in the future.

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Under the project numbers AAL-2014-1-087, AAL-2018-5-184, and AAL-2020-7-239 this work was supported by three grants from the Active and Assisted Living Programme (AAL) and Innovation Fund Denmark, as well as by a grant of the Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation. Also, thank you to the CAMI, HELP ME BRUSH and ORASTAR consortium partners respectively and their national funding agencies. Also, thank you to our many commercial, research and end-user partners for making this work possible. Also, the project was supported by the HEUCOD project “Healthcare Equipment Usage and Context Data (HEUCOD)” under the “Smart Industry 4.0 Programme” from the Danish “Regionalfonden og Socialfonden”.

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Wagner, S. (2021). CARIOT+ Care Coach – An Ambient Assisted Living Ecosystem for Supporting Open Data and Open Science Projects. In: Pissaloux, E., Papadopoulos, G.A., Achilleos, A., Velázquez, R. (eds) ICT for Health, Accessibility and Wellbeing. IHAW 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1538. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94209-0_5

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