17 research outputs found
Does IT bring hope for wellbeing?
No full textThe first part of this chapter reviews the design, implementation, and customer experience with the OLDES SW tele-care platform developed within the EU project Older people's e-services at home. The OLDES solution has been successfully tested at two different locations: in Italy with the participation of a group of 100 seniors (including 10 senior citizens suffering from heart disease), and in the Czech Republic, with the involvement of a group of 10 diabetic patients. The suggested OLDES approach proved to be an effective solution for municipalities, hospitals, and their contact centres for providing health and social services. The project partners therefore decided to develop a second generation of the system called SPES (Support to Patients through E-Service Solutions), which started in April 2011. The SPES project aims at transferring the original approach and results achieved in implementing the OLDES focusing on new target problem domains: dementia, mobility-challenged persons, respiratory problems, and social exclusion. © 2013, IGI Global
Older People's e-services at home
No full textThe number of old people in the EU is dramatically increasing
and the related burden in term of public expense getting higher
and higher – these are the two main reasons
motivating the OLDES project. Today more and more
old people are living alone, in many cases with no
families helping them nor enough money to afford
private carers. Getting inspiration from these facts,
OLDES will work to plan and implement an innovative
technological platform, with low cost and easy use
able to provide a wider range of services to an higher
number of elderly people, so to face the situations
described above. The platform will be tested by 100
elderly people in Italy (10 of them affected by heart
disease) and a sample of diabetics in Prague. Mr.
Paruolo, Bologna Municipality’s Deputy Mayor for Health, firmly
wanted this project; he believes that the welfare model has to
be changed and renewed quickly, making the most of new
technologies and high tech devices to offer a wider number of
old people tele-medicine, tele-assistance, tele-entertainment
and tele-company services. In this way it will be possible to
enlarge the number of people assisted by public services, even
if public resources are decreasing whilst the number of old
people increases
Validation and performance analysis of a parallel ported code for simulating the effects of lightning strokes on telecommunication buildings
No full textThe Artemis subproject, in the framework of the UE Capri project, deals with porting on parallel architectures of a Method of Moment (MoM) code for electromagnetic design and hardening of telecommunication centres against the effects of lightning strokes. After a preliminary stage of the work during which QR and LU algorithms for large complex matrix inversion were implemented both on Alenia's Quadrics (SIMD) and Cray T3D (MIMD) platforms, in order to choose the best suitable machine for such a kind of problem, the code has been ported on the last one. In this paper the parallel code validation and the performance improvement analysis with respect to the sequential one will be reported and discussed. © 1997 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Porting on parallel platforms of a tool for simulating the effects of lightning strokes on telecommunication buildings: A comparison on preliminary results about performances and accuracy on SIMD and MIMD architectures
No full textIn the framework of the UE CAPRI project, the Artemis subproject deals with porting on parallel architectures of a Method of Moment (MoM) code for electromagnetic design and hardening of telecommunication centres against the effects of lightning strokes. As a preliminary stage of the work, QR and LU algorithms for large complex matrix inversion were implemented both on Alenia's QUADRICS (SIMD) and Cray T3D (MIMD) platforms. The detailed results obtained from several test runs performed on each platform were reported elsewhere [HSSD95]. In this paper a comparison between the performance, scalability and accuracy results obtained from the above-mentioned tests will be reported and discussed © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1996
Porting on parallel platforms of a tool for simulating the effects of lightning strokes on telecommunication buildings: a comparison on preliminary results about performances and accuracy on SIMD and MIMD architectures
No full textValidation and performance analysis of a parallel ported code for simulating the effects of lightning strokes on telecommunication buildings
No full textThe Artemis subproject, in the framework of the UE Capri project, deals with porting on parallel architectures of a Method of Moment (MoM) code for electromagnetic design and hardening of telecommunication centres against the effects of lightning strokes. After a preliminary stage of the work during which QR and LU algorithms for large complex matrix inversion were implemented both on Alenia's Quadrics (SIMD) and Cray T3D (MIMD) platforms, in order to choose the best suitable machine for such a kind of problem, the code has been ported on the last one. In this paper the parallel code validation and the performance improvement analysis with respect to the sequential one will be reported and discussed. © 1997 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
A federative approach for a virtual community in elderly care: A different way in eCare
No full textOLDES (www.oldes.eu) is a project co-funded by the European Commission under the VI F.P. under the IST - Ambient Assisted Living theme. OLDES is a federated platform spanning a number of different agencies and institutions, which will support an innovative and collaborative approach to the delivery of welfare services to the elderly. It is designed to be scalable, highly customisable and governable by service providers, users and commissioners in response to dynamic and emergent needs and priorities. In the OLDES vision, many elderly people can be supported in their own homes by means of networked connections and services, contributing greatly to the quality and the cost-effectiveness of their care, and to their independence and wellbeing. OLDES is also investigating the ethical, cultural, legal and practical, as well as clinical, aspects of using intelligent monitoring tools, entertainment and thematic channels and social networking to assist in the processes of care and quality of life
Does IT Bring Hope for Wellbeing?
No full textThe first part of this chapter reviews the design, implementation, and customer experience with the OLDES SW tele-care platform developed within the EU project Older people's e-services at home. The OLDES solution has been successfully tested at two different locations: in Italy with the participation of a group of 100 seniors (including 10 senior citizens suffering from heart disease), and in the Czech Republic, with the involvement of a group of 10 diabetic patients. The suggested OLDES approach proved to be an effective solution for municipalities, hospitals, and their contact centres for providing health and social services. The project partners therefore decided to develop a second generation of the system called SPES (Support to Patients through E-Service Solutions), which started in April 2011. The SPES project aims at transferring the original approach and results achieved in implementing the OLDES focusing on new target problem domains: dementia, mobility-challenged persons, respiratory problems, and social exclusion
