Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT) is Austria's largest extra-university research centre in applied research and development. There are five specialized departments researching the key infrastructure issues of the future: the Mobility, Energy, Health & Environment, Safety & Security, Foresight Policy & Development departments develop technological innovations, methods and solutions for industry and customers from public institutions and cooperate with researchers at universities and other institutions of higher education or research nationally and internationally.
The AIT Business Unit Biomedical Systems of the Health & Environment Department has been involved in R&D on assistive and ambient assistive living technologies as well as medical research since 1994. Biomedical Systems is a high extensive experienced partner in EU-funded R&D and national funded projects, in working on technical integration and coordination as well as work package management. One of the key research areas of the Biomedical Systems group is the field of assisted living and smart home technologies. The group is working on a national funded research project dealing with a domotic sensor based monitoring and service platform for the elderly. The multidisciplinary research group has the needed know-how usability research, customised input devices, sensor fusion and integration and networking technologies. From other EU funded projects, we have experience in network implementation and high-level communication between modules in a smart-home environment including setup of residential gateways to external networks and services. Furthermore AIT has experience in developing sensor systems for biosignal recording and integrated signal analysis and processing. The focus is on the combination of developing hardware and integrated processing units and a scientific approach for biosignal analysis and interpretation. Because of the need for future sensor system development and the exchange of medical data AIT is integrated in projects dealing with interoperability and healthcare standards. A criterion of each project and activity is user involvement, which is resulting from operation of a network of information, testing and demonstration centres for rehabilitation technology. AIT is strongly connected to national and international research initiatives (RESNA, AAATE etc.) and also have rich experience in international research collaborations (e.g. CEC funded projects: RESORT, SMILE, MOVEMENT, MPOWER, CompanionAble, Bedmond). Biomedical Systems is a member of IAHSA (International Association of Homes and Services for the Ageing) and active in different standardisation working groups such as CEN251 and the ISO IEEE 11073 medical device communication working group. AIT has experience concerning model driven software development, service oriented architecture middleware for AAL applications and general developments like HL7 and ISO/IEEE standard integration as well as software module messaging with SOAP learned in the MPOWER project. These experiences could also already be extended in the running EU-funded CompanionAble project where AIT brought into major input concerning the AAL middleware architecture and the software module communication. In this project AIT has the lead of the "Integration" work package. Biomedical Systems is ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 13485:2003 certified by ÖQS and follows the requirements of the Medical & Healthcare Products Regulatory Directives. Actual Project (AAL group): · MPOWER - project defined and implemented an open source platform to simplify and speed up the task of developing and deploying services for persons with cognitive disabilities and elderly./ EU IST FP6/ 2006-2009 · CompanionAble - will provide the synergy of Robotics and Ambient Intelligence technologies and their semantic integration to provide for a care-giver's assistive environment. This will support the cognitive stimulation and therapy management of the care-recipient. This is mediated by a robotic companion (mobile facilitation) working collaboratively with a smart home environment (stationary facilitation)./ EU FP7 2007.7.1 ICT and Ageing / 2008-2012 · BEDMOND - Project which will develop an ICT-based system with the aim of an early detection of Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative, focused in elderly people, while living at home (phase 1, diagnosis) and a monitored specific support to the elderly person at this upcoming stage of neurodegenerative diseases detected when treatment is applied (phase 2, supervision)./ AAL-JP/2009-2012 · avat...@home - Avatar-Interfaces for the Assistive Home. "Face-Lifiting" user dialogues in smart home environments by using photo-realistic avatars./ Benefit BMVIT/FFG/ 2009 * UniversAAL - open platform and reference specification for Ambient Assisted Living. The main objective of the project is to make it technically feasible and economically viable to conceive, design and deploy innovative new AAL services (EU STREP FP7 2010-2014) · Diverse other projects dealing with textile electrodes, ECG / EMG / EOG biosignal conditioning, hemodynamicand neuronal modules, medical device communication standards etc. Sten Hanke is master in electrical engineering and a senior scientific researcher for AIT biomedical engineering in smart biomedical systems. He has experience in leading work packages in EU projects and leading national funded projects with several research and SME partners. He is a working member of the international ISO/IEEE 11073, European ISO/TC 215 and CEN/TC 251 Andreas Hochgatterer graduated from a Technical College for Information Technology and Electronics. After Education and Special Education Studies at the University of Vienna (specialising in IT in Special Education) and a study visit at the Middlesex University in London he joined AIT in the year 1998 and is now project manager and leader of the AAL Research Group within the Health & Environment Department. Furthermore he is initiator and leader of an AT information centre for people with disabilities (int...@point e.V.). 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