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Grant Agreement number: 288705 Project acronym: AALIANCE2 Project title: Next Generation European Ambient Assisted Living Innovation Alliance Funding scheme: Coordination Action (CA) Call identifier: FP7-ICT-2011.7 Challenge: 5 – ICT for Health, Ageing Well, Inclusion and Governance Objective: ICT-2011.5.4 ICT for Ageing and Wellbeing Project website address: www.aaliance.eu D4.3 2nd workshop on Reference Designs for Integrated Applications Due date of deliverable: [31/07/2013] Actual submission date: [31/07/2013] Start date of project: 01/10/2011 Duration: 30 months Organisation name of lead contractor for this deliverable: OFFIS Deliverable authors: Marco Eichelberg, Lars Rölker-Denker Version: 1.0 Project co-funded by the European Commission within the Seventh Framework Programme (2007-2013) Dissemination Level PU Public X PP Restricted to other programme participants (including the Commission Service) RE Restricted to a group specified by the consortium (including the Commission Service) CO Confidential, only for members of the consortium (including the Commission Service) D4.3 2nd workshop on Reference Designs for Integrated Applications Document History Version Date Author Summary of Main Changes Lars Rölker-Denker 0.1 2013-06-14 Initial version (OFFIS) 0.2 2013-06-18 Lars Rölker-Denker Appendix chapter included 0.3 2013-06-19 Lars Rölker-Denker Restructuring chap. 2 & 3 Contents from structured discussion in note 0.4 2013-06-21 Lars Rölker-Denker form into chap. 4 0.5 2013-06-27 Lars Rölker-Denker Workshop Preparation included 0.5.1 2013-07-04 Eichelberg Section 4.4 completed 0.7 2013-07-01 Lars Rölker-Denker Brief presentations in note form 0.8 2013-07-18 Lars Rölker-Denker Section 4 completed 0.9 2013-07-19 Lars Rölker-Denker Section 3 completed 0.9.1 2013-07-29 Lars Rölker-Denker Review Zimmermann integrated 0.9.2 2013-07-29 Lars Rölker-Denker Section 5 Workshop Analysis completed 0.9.3 2013-07-29 Lars Rölker-Denker Executive summary completed Introduction completed, short introduction 0.9.4 2013-07-30 Lars Rölker-Denker chap. 3 written Review Kreuzer integrated, Review Petzold 0.9.5 2013-07-30 Lars Rölker-Denker integrated Literature references, figures & slides 0.9.6 2013-07-30 Lars Rölker-Denker inserted 0.9.7 2013-07-30 Lars Rölker-Denker Review Eichelberg integrated 1.0 2013-07-31 Lars Rölker-Denker Final version File name: aa2_d4.3_workshop_report Lead contractor: OFFIS Page 2 of 44 Participant contractors: SSSA, Tun, DT, Tec, AGE, Zui D4.3 2nd workshop on Reference Designs for Integrated Applications Table of Contents Executive summary........................................................................... 5 1 Introduction ............................................................................. 7 2 Workshop preparation .............................................................. 7 2.1 Objectives & Scope of the workshop ..............................................................7 2.2 Participants ................................................................................................7 2.2.1 Selection and Invitation......................................................................7 2.2.2 Response level and characterisation of final attendees ............................8 2.2.3 Quality and alignment of participants ...................................................8 3 Brief Presentations of AAL middleware projects/ products ...... 9 3.1 RAALI........................................................................................................9 3.2 URC/Cloud4All/GPII................................................................................... 10 3.3 SUCH ...................................................................................................... 11 3.4 MundoCore/uMundo .................................................................................. 11 3.5 openHAB.................................................................................................. 12 3.6 QIVICON.................................................................................................. 12 3.7 ProSyst.................................................................................................... 12 3.8 universAAL............................................................................................... 13 3.9 openAAL .................................................................................................. 13 4 Structured Discussion............................................................. 14 4.1 Important features .................................................................................... 14 4.2 Need for a standardised reference model...................................................... 15 4.3 Role of semantic technology ....................................................................... 18 4.4 Need for standardisation on API level........................................................... 19 4.5 Market demand on AAL middleware solutions ................................................ 21 4.6 Sustainable business model ........................................................................ 22 5 Workshop analysis ................................................................. 23 5.1 Feedback ................................................................................................. 23 5.2 Efficacy of the workshop ............................................................................ 24 5.3 Difficulties and missed targets .................................................................... 24 5.4 New opportunities ..................................................................................... 24 File name: aa2_d4.3_workshop_report Lead contractor: OFFIS Page 3 of 44 Participant contractors: SSSA, Tun, DT, Tec, AGE, Zui D4.3 2nd workshop on Reference Designs for Integrated Applications 5.5 Lessons learned ........................................................................................ 25 6 Appendix ................................................................................ 25 6.1 List of participants..................................................................................... 25 6.2 Slides ...................................................................................................... 26 6.2.1 RAALI ............................................................................................ 26 6.2.2 URC, Cloud4All and GPPI .................................................................. 28 6.2.3 SUCH ............................................................................................ 32 6.2.4 MundoCore/uMundo......................................................................... 34 6.2.5 OpenHAB ....................................................................................... 36 6.2.6 QIVICON........................................................................................ 38 6.2.7 Prosyst mBS................................................................................... 40 6.2.8 UniversAAL..................................................................................... 42 6.2.9 OpenAAL........................................................................................ 44 File name: aa2_d4.3_workshop_report Lead contractor: OFFIS Page 4 of 44 Participant contractors: SSSA, Tun, DT, Tec, AGE, Zui D4.3 2nd workshop on Reference Designs for Integrated Applications Executive summary On June 11th 2013, the AALIANCE2 4th Stakeholder Workshop on Reference Designs for Integrated Applications in AAL took place in Frankfurt/Main, Germany, with 24 experts attending. 9 invited representatives from industrial and academic organisations active in the field of AAL middleware introduced their projects or products. Afterwards a structured discussion involving all participants was conducted along guiding questions. The most important results are: . Important features of an AAL middleware system: AAL systems and AAL middleware should provide expandability referring to the change of user’s needs and the development and improvement of technology over time. AAL middleware should support a core set of standards like network protocols, home automation protocols, ISO/IEEE 11073 (medical device connectivity) and OSGi (runtime with software lifecycle management capabilities). If possible, open standards should be preferred. Other features discussed were whether or not to integrate intelligence/semantics, customization of user interfaces, integration of human services, the handling of open intellectual property, consideration of data security, remote maintenance, reliability in terms of medical devices and integration of alarm systems. Need for a standardised reference model: Participants remarked that it would be very useful to have a standardised reference model but predominantly agreed that this is unrealistic at this time due to the variety of products, services and scenarios. It may be rather useful to have reference requirements or use cases and to provide a better domain understanding instead of promoting a technical solution. Furthermore, AAL systems are socio-technical systems but this fact is often neglected. Environmental information (i.e. room layout) and the orientation to other reference models (i.e. from the field of smart home) were other topics discussed. Role of semantic technology: The discussion on semantics was very controversial with pros and cons. Semantics can provide the missing intelligence in AAL systems and are one of the key enabling technologies identified in AALIANCE1.