Project description ICT for Ageing and WellbeingWIISEL's main goal is to develop an unobtrusive, self-learning and wearable prevention and warning system to decrease the incidence of falls in the elderly population.The idea is that elderly people put a specifically designed insole in their shoes, which monitors their walking pattern. This way the system may detect changes in gait and balance in the daily environment of the older person, which helps predict the likelihood of falling. Thanks to a wireless system and chips built into the insole, data captured by the movements of the foot are sent to a mobile device or computer, so that the doctor, caregiver, nurse or administrator can follow the evolution of the patient, to assess if he correctly follows the rehabilitation programme or if he returns to bad habits that increase the risk of falling. If this occurs, an alert is sent immediately to the responsible caregiver. Thus the system provides security to the elderly and reduces their fear of falling, directly improving their quality of life. Show the project objective Hide the project objective The main goal of WIISEL is to develop a flexible research tool to collect and analyze gait data from real users and correlate parameters related with the risk of falls from the elderly population.The global objective of the project is to provide a tool to continuous and remotely monitor gait and fall risk in the elderly and collect information on long term gait data for researchers in this field. This tool will consist of a combination of a flexible software platform together with wearable insole device collecting data related with gait. Risk of falls will be calculated as a new Fall Risk Index based on multiple gait parameters and gait pattern recognition. WIISEL will allow quantifying activity, assessing the quality of gait under real life conditions and will enable researchers to evaluate and monitor fall risk in elderly patients, in the home and community environment, mostly reflecting everyday life behavior. The system can be used as a research or rehabilitation tool and enable the recording of fall events to better recognize and correlate fall-associated gait patterns and increased fall risk.The main output expected from the project is a flexible research tool that will impact in the scientific community with the following elements:1. A constant monitoring system for elderly people through a wearable and unobtrusive sensing insole connected to a data analysis system. The WIISEL system will continuously capture spatial–temporal data (eg, stride time, single support time, and swing time, double support time, cadence, nº steps per day, step length, stride length, gait speed, heel acceleration, postural sway, limits of stability, minimum foot clearance, maximum pressure values on heel and toe) related to human gait and balance.2. Intelligent algorithms which will utilize data analysis including pattern recognition to quantify fall risk and provide useful information on fall risk assessment. With these results the project will contribute with a self learning analysis framework as a basis for further research in optimizing fall risk prediction and identifying fall risk factors.3. A Fall Risk Index based on multiple gait parameters (eg stride time, gait speed, step length and double support time and their variability) and gait pattern recognition to assess and quantify the risk of fall of elderly population4. Real-life and long term human gait data useful for the scientific community to enrich existing databases.5. A fall detection algorithm to feed gait pattern recognition.Moreover, the WIISEL system as a flexible tool may lay the ground for a commercial pathway as a continuous and remotely monitoring platform. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdata sciencenatural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwarenatural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdatabasesmedical and health sciencesclinical medicinephysiotherapynatural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligencepattern recognition Programme(s) FP7-ICT - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies Topic(s) ICT-2011.5.4 - ICT for Ageing and Wellbeing Call for proposal FP7-ICT-2011-7 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CP - Collaborative project (generic) Coordinator FUNDACIO EURECAT EU contribution € 0,00 Address AVENIDA UNIVERSITAT AUTONOMA 23 08290 Cerdanyola Del Valles (Barcelona) Spain See on map Region Este Cataluña Barcelona Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Fanny Breuil (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (9) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all SPRING TECHNO GMBH & CO KG Germany EU contribution € 414 840,00 Address HERMANN KOHLSTRASSE 7 28199 Bremen See on map Region Bremen Bremen Bremen, Kreisfreie Stadt Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Holger Arndt (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data TEJIDOS INDESMALLABLES GEISA SL Spain EU contribution € 108 078,00 Address POLIGONO INDUSTRIAL CAN TRIAS, CALLE RAMON LLULL 08232 VILADECAVALLS See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Albert Millan (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Total cost No data UNIVERSITAT AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA Spain EU contribution € 351 631,00 Address EDIF A CAMPUS DE LA UAB BELLATERRA CERDANYOLA V 08193 Cerdanyola Del Valles See on map Region Este Cataluña Barcelona Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Xavier Leal (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data FUNDACION PRIVADA CETEMMSA Participation ended Spain EU contribution € 537 700,00 Address CARRER BALMES 37-39 08301 MATARO See on map Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Fanny Breuil (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data UNIVERSITY OF GALWAY Ireland EU contribution € 304 505,00 Address UNIVERSITY ROAD H91 Galway See on map Region Ireland Northern and Western West Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Mari Vahey (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data THE FOUNDATION FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT AND HEALTH SERVICES NEXT TO THE MEDICAL CENTER TEL AVIV Israel EU contribution € 370 881,00 Address WEIZMANN STREET 6 64239 Tel Aviv See on map Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Michal Roll (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI RIPOSO E CURA PER ANZIANI INRCA Italy EU contribution € 333 000,00 Address VIA SANTA MARGHERITA 5 60124 Ancona See on map Region Centro (IT) Marche Ancona Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Fiorella Marcellini (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data IMEGO AB Participation ended Sweden EU contribution € 66 420,00 Address Arvid Hedvalls backe 4 41133 GOETEBORG See on map Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Hans Palerius (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data RISE ACREO AB Sweden EU contribution € 413 945,00 Address BOX 1070 164 25 Kista See on map Region Östra Sverige Stockholm Stockholms län Activity type Other Administrative Contact Asa KLINGENSJÖ (Mrs.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data
