POINT ACTIVE AGEING ASSISTIVE SERVICE – A MULTI-SENSOR SINGLE DEVICE FOR SMART MONITORING OF THE ELDERLY PEOPLE

Project Information

SAFELDER

Grant agreement ID: 827788

DOI

10.3030/827788

Project closed

EC signature date 9 August 2018

Start date 1 September 2018

End date 28 February 2019

Funded under

• INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs

Total cost

€ 71 429,00

EU contribution

€ 50 000,00

Coordinated by

MINUT AB
Sweden

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - SAFELDER (POINT ACTIVE AGEING ASSISTIVE SERVICE – A MULTI-SENSOR SINGLE DEVICE FOR SMART MONITORING OF THE ELDERLY PEOPLE)

Reporting period: 2018-09-01 to 2019-02-28

Summary of the context and overall objectives of the project

In the middle of 21st century Europe will become ‘the oldest continent’ in demographical terms. Obviously, the older we get the more susceptible to age related diseases (i.e. Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease) and inevitable physical limitations we become. Many seniors cannot live without daily care, either formal or informal. Today, more than 100 million of Europeans provide informal care for their relatives and half of them combine unpaid and informal care with employment. About 7% of male and 11% of female employees regularly share their time between job and care duties. It equals from 50 % to 90 % of the overall cost of formal long-term care provision.
As the disease progresses, a senior usually requires more and more care. This, sooner or later, leads an informal caregiver (most of them are women) to the decision on job resignation: 21% of informal carers in Europe reduced their working hours and 18% withdraw from the labour market. Currently approx. 42% of non-working carers are in the lowest income quartile and 59% of non-working carers have difficulty making ends meet (compared to 24% and 46% for non-carers respectively).

Work performed from the beginning of the project to the end of the period covered by the report and main results achieved so far

In this project, we have defined the technical and business requirements for a successful commercial launch of Point in the elderly care market segment.

Progress beyond the state of the art and expected potential impact (including the socio-economic impact and the wider societal implications of the project so far)

We have developed Point - a smart, multi sensor device for home security. Point strikes a balance between privacy and the need for monitoring. Thanks to its unique sound and motion recognition capabilities Point is a credible alternative to cameras. Point can also detect changes in the home environment, i.e. temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, ambient light and smoke. Through Point’s mobile application, families, neighbours and friends can communicate and work together to look after their homes.

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