Overview
Protect
Monitoring safety of patients 24/7 (e.g. bed-exits, falls, wandering, etc.), automated and anonymized.
Prevent
Nurses get critical information about e.g. impending falls in time and and in a way that they can react accordingly. Furthermore they are able to adjust the system to the need of their clients and high false alarm rates from currently used sensors are a thing of the past.
Assist
Support activities of daily living (e.g. going to the toilet). Clients are guided through certain tasks autonomously by the DIANA virtual assistant. Nursing staff receives on-the-spot info in order to assist when needed.
Check
Observe behavioral trends and provide evidence for later assessment by clinical experts. Support the optimization of living quarters (private and shared rooms) in order to ensure the well being of clients (e.g. water and food intake, dead ends).
Technology
The sensors are seamlessly integrated into the Milestone VMS Open Platform ecosystem enabling the flexible handling of generated events and analytic data.
Participation in the Project
We are looking for care institutions and hospitals in EU who are interested in participating in our case studies. Contact us if you want to join one of our 3 pilot phases over the next 3 years :
1)Safety module (application currently open): this is the basic module with functionalities like fall detection, bed-exits, access control or smart lighting interfaces, mobile alarm clients, etc.
2) Interaction module: Additional functionality is added to provide assistance, especially on the toilet.
3) Analysis module: e.g. study movement flows of resident in shared areas. This shall help to identify where people tend to get stuck during their wandering.
In order to take part in the project, the following requirements need to be fulfilled: your residents or part of your residents need to have mild to medium cognitive impairments.
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Safety Module
start 08/2020
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Assessment & Interaction Module
start 2022
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Analysis & Documentation Module
start 2021
Consortium
cogvis
Institute of Visual Computing and Human-Centered Technology, TU Vienna
EET Europarts
Smart City Innovation Lab, Universidade Catolica Portuguesa
Cáritas Diocesana de Coimbra
Geriatrische Klinik St. Gallen
BluePoint
Funding
News
2 Accepted Publications
The TU Vienna (Computer Vision Lab), one partner of the DIANA consortium, submitted two papers to scientific conferences: 1) the ACM PErvasive TEchnologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA) Conference that takes place in Creta, Greece, from June 29 – July 2, 2021. The submitted paper is the following: Lumetzberger J., Raoofpour A., Kampel M. “Privacy[…]
AAL Guidelines for Ethics
The DIANA project was invited – together with other AAL projects – to participate in testing the AAL Guidelines for ethics, data privacy and security. Ethics and Privacy issues are fundamental not only to demonstrate a high quality of R&D procedures in human – technology interactions, but also to guarantee that the findings and output of a[…]
Pilot sites installation
Test installations in Switzerland and Portugal are running in order to set everything up for our pilot phases. In the picture, one can see a workplace where visualizations of the fearless sensor are visible via the milestone system. The visualizations are 3D depth images that only reveal shapes and silhouettes of objects and persons, and[…]
Pre-pilot survey
In order to gain information on the care givers’ experience on AAL (Active Assisted Living) technology, their attitude towards its use and difficulties in their work that could be assisted with DIANA, we conducted a survey with in total 106 participants in the pilot site countries (PT and CH). Despite the current difficulties due to[…]
DIANA kick-off meeting in Vienna
In February 2020 all project partners came together in Vienna to officially start the DIANA project. The kick-off meeting enabled us to get to know each other, our institutions and to speak of our collective goal: using technology to help cognitively impaired people.