The MonAMI project was aimed to investigate the feasibility of the deployment of open platforms for Ambient Asssited Living (AAL) services provision and to test user acceptance and the usability of the services. The services were designed to give support in the areas of environmental control, security, and leisure. The participants included elderly persons with disabilities, care staff and info...

The MonAMI project aims to investigate the feasibility of the deployment of open platforms for Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) services provision based on Ambient Intelligence (AmI) and to test user acceptance and the usability of the services. Services were designed to provide support in the areas of environmental control, security, well-being and leisure. These services were installed and evalu...

Recent advancements experienced by diverse network technologies, such as wireless personal and local area networks and wired networks, interacting with location systems, make possible the development of intelligent environments [4]. Elderly and disabled people compose a segment of the population that would profit very much from Ambient Intelligence if it is accessible. This is only possible if ...

Ambient Supported Living systems for people with physical, sensory or cognitive restrictions have to guarantee that the environment is safe, fault tolerant and universally accessible. In addition it is necessary to overcome technological challenges, common to ubiquitous computing, such as the design of a middleware layer that ensures the interoperability of multiple wired and wireless networks ...

Disability and elderly people are considered special groups due to their high degree of vulnerability, welfare must be supported by public measures that reinforce the guarantees rights freedoms. Although new technologies open up a world possibilities in all areas life, use can hinder, some cases, development these because practice is complex novelty, especially area communication between citize...