Smart Living Environments for Ageing Well was identified by the Alliance for Internet of Things Innovation (AIOTI) as one of the “vertical” domains where IoT would play a disruptive innovative role enabling the game change in the landscape of social and health care of senior people at home and their living environments.

This session is co-organised by AIOTI-Work Group 5 “Smart Living Environments for Ageing Well” and ACTIVAGE LSP project

AIOTI-WG5 ambition is to be the reference for IoT in Smart living environments for Ageing well. It aims at build a dynamic pole for knowledge sharing in the domain, acting as a bridge between initiatives that bring added value to healthy living. This vision is supported by the two following strategic objectives:

• Drive the IoT uptake in smart living
• Unleash the supporting technologies

ACTIVAGE is the Large Scale Pilot project producing evidence of the value of IoT on fostering the deployment of Active and Healthy Ageing  (AHA) solutions in Europe, through the integration of advanced IoT technologies across the value chain, demonstrating multiple AHA-IoT applications at large scale in a usage context, in real operational conditions.

AHA (Active and Healthy Ageing) – IoT is a highly specialised implementation of IoT technologies and infrastructures. On the contrary to other domains, persons have a central and  predominant role as data producers and service consumers, then imposing the highest level of demand for data security and privacy preservation. But simultaneously, it will create unprecedent opportunities for personal data re-use and sharing (valorisation) fostering the creation and growth of applications & services markets leveraged on interoperability.

In this session, key industrial leaders representing medical technology, consumer, electronics and communication industries will debate on the potential of AHA-IoT, and how AIOTI and ACTIVAGE together can take the lead to boost growth of the AHA-IoT market, attracting the collaboration of the many European organisations that deals with IoT technology and with the ageing population issues in Europe.