Ambient Assisted Living Ecosystem for Supporting Senior Citizens' Human System Interaction

Europe faces a major demographic shift which necessitates the development of relevant technology -based care services with support for telemedicine, telecare, ambient assisted living, and pervasive health concepts and technologies. There are already countless relevant platforms and components available that may be reused to become part of new ecosystems for supporting new services for improved human system interaction. The CAMINO Ecosystem, developed as part of the European CAMI project, aims at providing a framework and reference implementation of a vendor agnostic ecosystem built on existing platforms and components. Specifically, the CAMINO Ecosystem aims at identifying which existing technological building blocks are needed and available for creating such an open and agnostic ecosystem for supporting optimal human system interaction without being tied to a single vendor. CAMINO should be seen as a conceptual ecosystem, that relies on third-party frameworks, platforms, and components, and which is intended to evolve over time. The aim of this short paper is to present the CAMINO Ecosystem and the building blocks it consists of in order to showcase a fully functional ambient assisted living ecosystem offering novel human system interaction components. We present the preliminary experiences gained and discuss future relevant developments.