Taking Care of Elderly People with Chronic Conditions Using Ambient Assisted Living Technology: The ADVENT Perspective

The population ageing trend has created an imperative need for ICT-based solutions that will support continuous care provision and help elders prolong the time they live independently in their own home environment. The ADVENT project aims at providing a comfortable, safe and secure environment to support the daily living of elders through a set of adaptive and demand-driven services. This paper presents the user and system requirements analysis results, based on which the high-level architecture of the core ADVENT system was drawn. This architecture highlights the home environment and the ambient intelligence platform, which are described in detail on a design level.

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