The ambition of the ENSAFE project is to develop a dynamic platform based solution that caters for the entire continuum of care. Due to the flexible and custom nature of the ENSAFE solution it is able support people in different ways and address a wide variety of needs. In the pilot as part of this project we will evaluate a few of these specific cases to showcase the potential of the solution.

Within ESNAFE smart services are enabled by a perceptive layer, based on an heterogeneous set of sensing devices, including: smartphones, wearable sensors, home environmental sensors and clinical monitoring devices. Data coming from such devices will be gathered, fused and analyzed to infer useful information about the users’ daily lives and health status. Outcome of such data processing will in turn enable feedback strategies toward the user itself (supporting awareness and motivation in pursuing healthy behaviors) as well as toward caregivers and healthcare services (supporting continuous monitoring, prevention and early diagnosis strategies).  The goal in ENSAFE is to design and develop a platform and services that should be possible to implement in all countries and as well be able to commercialize in a broader market with business models that make it possible for partners and (third party) suppliers to make the step towards business in the care sector.

The ultimate goal of the whole data gathering and storage process is to enable the subsequent data analysis phase, during which the ENSAFE engine should be able to extract meaningful information about user’s daily life habits and provide useful feedback to encourage healthy behaviours. In order to perform such a task, heterogeneous data fusion is necessary: merging the information provided by the smart home, the mobile phone and the clinical sensors together creates a richer description of what the routines of the user may look like. Also, combining information from multiple users may lead to much accurate and useful system feedback

As a first step to support this vision we made a technology road map which takes the Smartphone (GoLivePhone) as a starting point to add custom hardware and service to as a flexible growing model.  The figure is divdied in five stages that correlate technology advancement with user needs. These are defined as: (1) Basic technology (Smartphone), and no healthcare needs, (2) Basic technology with extended service and minor healthcare needs, (3) Medically extended sensor platform and medium/high healthcare needs, and finally (4) intensive healthcare need in care home environment. For more details, click on the image or link below.

ENSAFE bigger picture perspective – Technology roadmap