Suggested Web Links

This is a limited and selective list of other activities similar to the MATCH project. (The list is simply alphabetical by category.) Note that pages linked from here are beyond our control, e.g. the site may become unavailable.

Home Care Technology Projects

• Ambient intelligence for The Networked Home Environment (AMIGO)

  This project is funded by the European Commission under the Sixth Framework Programme to research and develop open, standardised, interoperable middleware and intelligent user services for the networked home environment. It aims to offer users intuitive, personalised and unobtrusive interaction by providing seamless interoperability of services and applications.

• BT Centre for Care in The Community

  BTexact is now closed. The BT centre was established to study and demonstrate the benefits of telecare, where ambient intelligence devices are used to continuously monitor client health and social well-being in the home.

• Centre for the Integrated Home Environment

  With the use of a demonstration centre, this project aims to demonstrate the benefits that an integrated home environment can offer compared to individual systems. End users are asked to provide an evaluation to ensure these systems are consumer led. This project is collaborating with the BTexact Care in the Community Centre on the Sensor Networks project.

• E-Health: Addressing Evaluation, Implementation and Integration (HAVEN)

  This project involves partners from the Centre for Rural Health, the Universities of Glasgow and Dundee, the Scottish Centre for Telehealth and the Scottish School of Primary Care. The overall aim is to develop a clear strategy for collaborative e-health implementation and evaluation research and the creation of an internationally recognised centre of excellence in e-health research.

• MIT House_n

  The MIT House_n Research Consortium/Open Source Building Alliance publishes relevant newsletters.

• Next Wave Technologies and Markets

  The Next Wave Technologies and Markets programme is a DTI-sponsored programme. There are seven virtual centres around the country who undertake management, coordination and monitoring.

• Open Services Gateway Initiative (OSGi)

  This is an industry initiative with around 35 active companies in the area of networked access to the home, to vehicles, etc. OSGi is the foundation for home networks on MATCH.

• Sensor Networks Project - Smart Homes for The Aged

  Smart Homes for the Aged is one in a number of projects from Sensor Networks who are funded through the Australian Research Council. Their many projects investigate how sensors and sensor networks can be used to improve quality of life. Sensor Networks have extensive international collaborations.

• Reconfigurable Ubiquitous Networked Embedded Systems (RUNES)

  This is a European-led project supported by research funding from the European Commission's Sixth Framework Programme. The RUNES project has a vision to enable the creation of large-scale, widely distributed, heterogeneous, networked and embedded systems that interoperate and adapt to their environments. RUNES aims to provide an adaptive middleware platform and application development tools that allow programmers the flexibility to interact with the environment where necessary, whilst affording a level of abstraction that facilitates ease of application construction and use.

• Ubiquitous Computing for Healthcare in The Community (UbiCare)

  The academic partners are Imperial College London, Lancaster University, and the University of Southampton. A number of industry partners is also involved. The centre is responsible for the running of three projects developing technologies:

  • Ubiquitous Monitoring Environment for Wearable and Implantable Sensors (UbiMon)
  • Autonomic Networked System Management Tool for Ubiquitous Systems (ANS)
  • Vision-Based Sensing for Elderly and Chronically Ill People (UbiSense)
  
  
• University-Based Smart Homes and Smart Technologies

  This web page gives a list of smart homes and smart technologies that are university-based.

Organisations for Telecare

• Joint Improvement Team (JIT, Scotland)

  The Joint Improvement Team was established to work directly with local health and social care partnerships across Scotland. Its main focus is to provide practical support and additional capacity to partnerships to help address the issues and challenges they face. The ultimate goal is to deliver better health and social care services to those who need them.

• Telecare Programme Board (Scotland)

  The Telecare Programme Board holds primary responsibility for the strategic development of the National Telecare Programme in Scotland. The Board advises and supports Senior Officers in the management of the Telecare Development Fund.

Organisations for E-Health and Ageing Research

• Administration on Ageing

  As this is an American website, some policies will differ from the UK. However, the site provides a lot of useful fact sheets about ageing and the problems for care givers. There are also links to other sites giving further information on specific conditions and problems that face the elderly.

• Canadian Council on Aging

  This site describes the Canadian National Advisory Council on Aging. It has a somewhat general brief to prepare advice on matters related to quality of life for elderly people.

• Future Healthcare Network (FHN)

  The Future Healthcare Network is a learning network set up by the NHS confederation. FHN is funded by over £5 billion from the private sector. Through a number of projects, its aim is to address what will be needed by healthcare systems by 2010 and after. FHN is made up of organisations that are leading the way forward in delivery of healthcare in the future.

• Intelligent Assistive Technology and Systems Lab (IATSL)

  Located at the University of Toronto, IATSL is involved in many projects designed to develop assistive technology that is adaptive, flexible and intelligent. The aim is to enable users to participate fully in their daily lives.

• National Centre for Independent Living (NCIL)

  Funded by the Department of Health, NCIL is unique as a small, national membership organisation controlled and run by disabled people. NCIL has been at the forefront in the development of appropriate policy and practice, both nationally and locally, leading to full inclusion and equal citizenship of all disabled people. The site has up-to-date news links regarding home care services.

• Scottish Centre for Telehealth (SCT)

  The Centre aims to provide a centre of expertise to define and disseminate best practice, and to develop interoperable standards, protocols and processes to support telehealth solutions.

• Strategic Promotion of Ageing Research Capacity (SPARC)

  Established in 2005, SPARC is a four year initiative designed to raise the profile of ageing research. The web site provides links to past workshops and other links to useful related sites.

• Telemedicine and E-Health Information Service (TEIS)

  This site provides information about telemedicine and e-health. Its objectives are to bring together those working in the fields of telemedicine, telecare and e-health; to encourage them to share information and experience; and to provide an information resource on telemedicine activity in the UK.

Charities for Older and Disabled People

• Age Concern England

  This provides general facts and information regarding older people in England.

• Age Concern Scotland

  This provides general facts and information regarding older people in Scotland.

• Disabled Living Foundation

  This organisation provides a lot of useful information on new assistive technologies and other assisted living devices.

• Foundation for Assistive Technologies (FAST)

  This is a charity working with users of assistive technologies to bring them together with technology developers, the NHS and other professional organisations. There is a excellent searchable database for research and development projects in the UK. There is also a monthly email bulletin .