Project focused on health monitoring for seniors kicks off

The MAESTRO project, entitled "Scalable and Sustainable Reference Framework for evaluating quantified-self equipment and services for seniors", held its kick-off meeting from 27-28 October 2015 in Brussels.

Aiming to improve health monitoring for seniors, the project will develop an assessment reference framework which will allow manufacturers of monitoring devices to certify their products. It will also develop a web-based ICT platform to provide advice on monitoring services to users (seniors but also formal and informal actors) in the context of well-being and health.

Funded by the European Commission's Active and Assisted Living Joint Programme (AAL JP), the project brings together partners from Luxembourg (Luxembourg Instittute of Science and Technology), Switzerland (Coherent Streams, Fondation Suisse pour les Téléthèses, DomoSafety), Italy (CNR- Institute for Cognitive Science and Technology, I-Più Srl) and Ireland (Dundalk institute of technology). The project is co-ordinated by LIST.

MAESTRO will notably address the lack of a method to measure the quality of health monitoring devices by providing stakeholders with a reference framework to certify products and services. This will help to harmonize the international development and production of connected monitoring devices for e-health and wellbeing and may be further formalized as a quality label for industry use.