Silvergate-112 project
Silvergate-112: Assistive Medical and Social Monitoring and Alarm System
Project summary
The evolution of information technology and telecommunications, especially the spread of embedded systems and data communications networks opens new possibilities. One of their promising applications, targeted by this project, is assistive applications, among others systems monitoring and helping the elderly, the handicapped and those that need rehabilitation or depend on nursing care. Besides their social importance, assistive applications have great economic significance as well: they create new market opportunities for the economy (cf. ‘silver economy’), and they make it easier to preserve or even improve the quality of health and social care services at a sustainable rate of public spending.
Former researches produced a long line of devices and technologies, and today it is necessary to integrate them using the existing (basic) research results: interoperable marketable products and an open system to host them. The objective of the Silvergate-112 project is to create devices with standardised interfaces and a scalable integration technology that organises devices and services to provide novel services with extended functionality, which would be impossible without integration.
The project obtained a grant from the Hungarian National Office for Research and Technology in December 2007.
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