OASIS Project IntroductionOASIS at a glance

Presented by Dr Evangelos Bekiaris – CERTH/HIT 10.10.2008 - Brussels

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Ageing population: facts

• In absolute terms, the number of older persons has tripled over the last 50 years and will be more than triple again over the

next 50-year period to reach nearly 2 billion in 2050.

• Of all world regions, Europe has the highest proportion of population aged 65 or over;

only Japan has a similar age structure.

By 2050 the 65+ population will represent the 28% of the overall population in Europe

(currently it is 16% in the EU15).

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The ageing of the population is changing also the workforce sce- nario in Europe:

currently the ratio between working people and retired ones is equal to 4:1; drastic reduction of this ratio up to 2:1 in 2050.

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The elderly society barriers

– Major deficiencies in assistance to the elderly in the transportation modes, hampering their social and working activities.

– Lack of appropriate retraining, lifelong learning activities, and tele-working infrastructure, causing unemployment among the senior workers or in any case problems in prolonging working life.

– Social isolation is a common problem for senior people

The consequences of ageing population present enormous challenges and opportunities for ICT

In addition to the age-related physical and cognitive problems, barriers to independence affecting the lives of elderly people include:

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ApproachLevel 4: Personal assistance where individual adaptation and individual assistive technology are not adequate.

Level 1: Universal design should cover the needs of as many as possible.

Level 2: Adaptation for groups with identical needs for adaptation.

Level 3: Individual adaptation and individual assistive technology

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Background – the ASK-IT IP

Transportation

Work, business and educational

processes

Community building

Other?

Touristic and leisure

Personal services

To take everybody everywhere with a good level of comfort, providing support and info seamlessly throughout the trip duration

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ASK-IT tools:• Localisation and intermodal route guidance• E-commerce & e-payment modules• Domotic modules• ADAS & IVICS for all• Health &emergency management module• E-working and e-learning modules• Assistive devices interface• Self-configurable user interface

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An Agents-based

architecture

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ASK-IT @ desktop

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ASK-IT @ PDAs

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ASK-IT @ mobile phones

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ASK-IT sites

Pilot site No. of connected

services

Athens/Thessal. 6

Madrid 4

Genoa 5

Bucharest 6

Nuremberg 8

Helsinki 4

Newcastle 5

The Hague 4

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The future of the devices Open Accessibility

Everywhere: Groundwork, Infrastructure, Standards

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The future of the services

Open architecture for Accessible Services Integration and Standardisation

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OASIS Mission StatementOASIS - a Large Scale Integrated Project partially funded by the European Commission - aims to develop an open and innovative reference architecture, that will allow plug and play and cost-effective interconnection of existing and new services in all domains required for - the independent and autonomous living of older people and

- their enhanced Quality of Life.

OOpenpen architecturearchitecture forfor AAccessible ccessible SServiceservices

IIntegration and ntegration and SStandardisationtandardisation

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OASIS aims to support older adults byOASIS aims to support older adults byfostering their physical and psychologicalfostering their physical and psychologicalindependence, by stimulating their socialindependence, by stimulating their socialengagement and their emotional wellengagement and their emotional wellbeing.being.

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OASIS data summary• EC co-funded project (ICT-FP7)• Coordinator: Philips FIMI (Italy) • Start/end date: 1 January 2008 - 31 December 2011 • Consortium: 33 Partners from 11 countries

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Portability of open platform

Tablet PC – Philips/Fimi PDA / SIEMENS Smartphone / Motorola

Automotive / CRF Domotic / DML Infokiosk / IBM

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OASIS application areas

• INDIPENDENT LIVINGINDIPENDENT LIVING

• SOCIALIZATIONSOCIALIZATION

• AUTONOMOUS MOBILITYAUTONOMOUS MOBILITY

• SMART WORKPLACESSMART WORKPLACES

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OASIS Independent Living Applications

• Nutritional Advisor• Activity coach• Brain and skills trainer• Social communities platform• Health monitoring• Environmental Control

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OASIS Autonomous Mobility and Smart Workplaces Applications

• Elderly friendly transport information services

• New, elderly-friendly route guidance

• Personal mobility• Smart workplaces applications

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COF / Hyper-Ontology / RepositoryCommon Ontology Framework

• defines a formal specification of ontology modules, and how they relate

• defines a methodology and best practice for ontology construction

this makes it possible to define a

Hyper-Ontology

• that acts like a single connected ontology, even though it is made up of possible heterogeneous modules

which can be stored, accessed and maintained within an

Open Ontology Repository

specification

guidelines

data structure +contents

software

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Common Ontology Framework

Hyper-Ontology

Open Ontology Repository

Applications

Architecture

CCM

Interfaces

• versioning• meta-data registry• concept-concept• theory-theory• module-module

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CONTENTCONNECTORMODULE

ContentConnector

Agents

User Personal AMI Space

ServiceProviderAgents

User Agents

Cell phone

User ProfileRepository

PDATablet PC

User

In VehicleDevice

OASIS AmI Framework

HYPERONTOLOGY

ServicePrioritisation

Agents

Personal Devices

Render requested data onuser’s personal device

Prioritisation of Services

Use

r dem

ands

User ContentManagement

Semantic Service and Content Discovery

Discovered Services

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OASIS test sites OASIS test sites

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Exploitation

OASIS users

4th Level: Modules ventors

Other external devices

Site 1: Milan/

Florence (PHILIPS)

Site 4: Thess./ Plovdiv/

Bucharest (CERTH/HIT)

Site 3: Newcastle

(UNEW)

Site 2: Kaiserslauten

(FhG/IESE)

ITACA

PHILIPS

MOTOROLA DOMOLOGIC

SIEMENS

FhG/IAO

Network (VODAFONE)

UniPisa FORTH CERTH ATCROM FhG/IIS

CRF

Living lab: PHILIPS

Sheltered Home: ANCESCAO

Independent living

Living lab: FhG/IESE

Sheltered Home: Westpfalz Klinikum

Independent living

Living lab: UNEW

Sheltered Home: Newcastle Univ. Clinic

Independent living

Independent living

Sheltered Home: Saint Vasil the Great

Living lab: CERTH/HIT

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4th level: Worldwide OASIS industrial forum

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Standardisation (1/2)• World-wide OASIS Industrial Forum aims to:

– promote the OASIS Reference Architecture through standardisation,

– manage the expansion of the OASIS COF by reviewing and accepting on a 6-month basis newly proposed ontologies and services connected temporarily at the lab-test environment of OASIS for at least 3 months,

– maintain and upgrade the Ontology Management, AMI and Interaction Tools of the OASIS System.

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This Industrial Forum will be an open board without selection criteria. Any industry that wants to adopt, promote and expand OASIS Architecture will be welcome (with a small fee). Incentives of participation for the Industries include:

– Free use of WP1.3, 1.4 and 1.5 tools for connections of services to OASIS Architecture.

– Introduction to a rich world of services and sites for the new member services without having to change their Architecture.

– Ability to influence the OASIS Architecture expansion.– Intercommunication and interoperability with other ventors

services.

Standardisation (2/2)

Be part of it…

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Thanks for developing the

OASIS systems and its

services together with us.