Norgall Thomas, Wichert Reiner
Fraunhofer Ambient Assisted Living Alliance, c/o Fraunhofer-Institut für Integrierte Schaltungen, Erlangen.
Stud Health Technol Inform. 2013;187:145-51.
Individual availability of information and communications technology (ICT) has enabled "Personal Health" applications like the continuous ubiquitous telemonitoring of vital signs. The concept of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) goes beyond health and care applications utilizing home automation technology for supporting individuals with specific needs, particularly enabling elderly to live in their accustomed home as long as possible. These users usually suffer from more than one disease and need compensation of several impairments. Most current AAL projects and products however provide insulated solutions addressing only a small selection of these user needs. For comprehensive dynamic system adaptation to changing user needs an open platform supporting interoperable components is required. While the industry-driven Continua Health Alliance developed a corresponding Personal Health ecosystem, the ongoing European project universAAL aims at a universal platform for both AAL and Personal Health applications.
个人对信息通信技术（ICT）的使用，使得诸如持续无处不在的生命体征远程监测等“个人健康”应用成为可能。环境辅助生活（AAL）的概念不仅涵盖健康和护理应用，还利用家庭自动化技术来支持有特殊需求的个人，特别是让老年人尽可能长时间地生活在他们习惯的家中。这些用户通常患有不止一种疾病，需要补偿多种功能障碍。然而，目前大多数AAL项目和产品都提供孤立的解决方案，只满足了这些用户需求中的一小部分。为了使系统能够根据用户需求的变化进行全面动态调整，需要一个支持可互操作组件的开放平台。虽然行业驱动的持续健康联盟开发了相应的个人健康生态系统，但正在进行的欧洲项目universAAL旨在为AAL和个人健康应用打造一个通用平台。
