Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
1. Introduction
In this document a roadmap on AAL, produced by the AALIANCE project, is
presented. The document is the result of a collaboration of experts in different domains.
During the process we started with an inventory of ideas and developed a number of
scenarios around application domains. Enabling technologies have been identified and
structured in technology categories. This resulted in a document that should be
considered as a technology roadmap.
Other roadmap activities in this area exist:
CAPSIL is developing a roadmap and Wiki for EU research to achieve
effective and sustainable solutions to independent living based on an in-depth
analysis of clinical requirements and the ICT scenarios developed or under
development in the EU, as well as the US and Japan.
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SENIOR is providing a systematic assessment of the social, ethical and
privacy issues involved in ICT and Ageing, in order to plan strategies for
governing technology trends according to EU legal and ethical standards.
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ePAL is developing a strategic research roadmap focused on inducing new
ways towards a balanced active life for retiring and retired professionals while
promoting a new notion of the silver economy with a wide societal impact.
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In addition some other relevant roadmaps exist:
ITEA Roadmap for Software-Intensive Systems and Services, Edition 3
Released in February 2009. The ITEA Roadmap 3 is an open and structured
vision of future uses of ICT and of ICT-based services, and thus a tool for
anticipating technology changes in software-related businesses. It
demonstrates the potential of ITEA 2 to contribute significantly to European
industrial competitiveness and societal well-being over the coming years. The
document explains the general evolutions in Software-intensive Systems and
Services, and identifies major roadblocks. As such, it serves as a tool to
position R&D and innovation projects, and to create innovation partnerships.
For generic topics related to “Services, system and software construction” and
“Intermediation and basic services” domains as well as “Engineering
technologies” we refer to this document.
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Roadmaps on robotics:
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From Internet to Robotics (US) by CCC.
EURON roadmap on Robotics.
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1.1. Structure of the Roadmap
Following this introduction about the scope of AAL, some trends in AAL will be
presented from different perspectives, to which will be added some observation of
barriers for deployment. This will be followed by a detailed discussion of the
application domains - AAL4persons (Chapter 2), AAL@community (Chapter 3),
AAL@work (Chapter 4) - and a detailed presentation of the enabling technologies -
