Project Overview
- Project acronym:
- ENABLE
- Project full title:
- A wearable system supporting services to "enable" elderly people to live well, independently and at ease
- Programme:
- 6th Framework Programme of the EU, Information Society Technologies
- Contract no.:
- 045 563
- Starting Date:
- 1 January 2007
- Duration:
- 42 months
- Effort:
- 560.7 person-months
- Overall budget:
- 3.650.920 EUROS
- EC Contribution:
- 2.800.000 EUROS
The project will develop a personal, user-centered enabling system, with services, for use by an elderly person in or out of the home, to mitigate the effects of any disability and to increase quality of life: independence, autonomy, mobility, communications, care and safety. The system will be based on a distributed open platform, enabling other services to be added by third parties, by "plugging" into defined interfaces. The platform includes a mobile phone, enabling the user to get out and about, for visiting, shopping, recreation, etc, whilst maintaining contact for help and services.
