Customized broadhand services for the elder – AMALYS

The aging population is a very strong concern in Europe. The significant increase in life expectancy leads to worry about increasing the quality of life of seniors. There is a strong link between aging and loneliness.

The objective of the Amalys project is to bring maturing part of six years of research and laboratory experiments conducted by the SID (Services Innovants pour Personnes Dépendantes, Innovative Services for Dependent Persons) of Télécom Bretagne. The project targets the elderly and / or dependent living in institutions or at home, he wants to offer services using the image through the medium of choice for this population today: the television.
Amalys answer:
- Strengthening intergenerational ties by maintaining networks emotional senior citizens;
- To offset the loss of autonomy by the deployment of communications solutions between dependents, the family and the team of professional carers.

The main technological building blocks of the system have been developed in previous projects (T@pa, Companym@ges-AIPA) and validated in experiments in situ in a nursing home since September 2009. The technical infrastructure must now be consolidated in terms of network access and data storage, and enriched the range of services. Finally, the technical solution, achieved today for deployment in an institution, must be adapted for wider deployment in the homes of the elderly.

The platform Amalys intended to be transferred, via a contract for licensing of know-how at a future start-up (tentatively named Elder - Elder's Interactive solution) which will be accompanied by the incubator Telecom Bretagne in Rennes which creation is expected in the first half of 2011.