IS_ACTIVE

The goal of IS_ACTIVE is to devise a person-centric healthcare solution for patients with chronic conditions - especially elderly people - based on miniaturized wireless inertial sensors, which provide distributed motion caption and intelligent recognition of activities and situations.

The IS-ACTIVE system enables therefore the recognition of patient condition in real-time, by exploiting the processing power of the sensor network in a collaborative manner.

This means that the home becomes the main care environment, and, in addition, patients can receive real-time feedback in order to monitor, self-manage and improve their physical condition according to their specific situation.

IS-ACTIVE aims at producing tangible results in the form of prototypes, and the IS-ACTIVE results are to be validated through field trials involving patients suffering from COPD.

Project period

2009- 2012

Financing

The Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) Joint Programme/EU

Project partners

  • The Norwegian Centre for Telemedicine / University Hospital of North Norway, Norway
  • NORUT Northern Research Institute, Norway
  • University of Twente / CTIT, The Netherlands (coordinator)
  • Roessingh Research & Development, The Netherlands
  • Inertia Technology, The Netherlands
  • University Hospital Elias, Romania
  • PROSYS, Romania

Contact person

Tatjana M. Burkow, telephone +47 957 29 041 and email tatjana.m.burkow@telemed.no

IS-ACTIVE is part of a project portfolio at NST/Norut making personal healthcare technologies and services for in-house and while on the move for the chronically ill: MyHealthService (2007 - 2011), Well@Home / Better Breathing (2007 - 2009) and MinHelsestasjon (2005/2006).

More information on the project

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MyHealthService - personal healthcare technology and services for elderly chronically ill