UNCAP

UNCAP stands for “Ubiquitous Interoperable Care for Ageing People” and is a project funded by the European Union under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 program for research and innovation. It has a duration of 36 months (2015-2018) and involves 23 private companies, health care facilities and centers of excellence of nine EU countries and has a budget of over three million euro.

The lack of ICT platforms based on open standards is regarded as one of the most significant market barriers to the creation of new care & assistance paradigms with global interconnection and interworking.

UNCAP delivers an interoperable platform based on open industrial standards that leverages on existing technologies for biosensing, indoor/outdoor localisation and home-automation. The result is an open source, scalable and privacy-savvy ecosystem compatible with existing Personal Health Record systems, that can deliver novel services that can help aging people (incl. those with cognitive impairments) live independently and with dignity.

To do so, UNCAP uses state-of-art physical/cognitive assessment tools together with technologies to locate objects, devices and users within indoor/outdoor spaces, to continuously monitor–in a non-invasive way- users and to assist them in case alert conditions are detected.