Program: H2020-SC1-FA-DTS-2018-2
Title: SMART-BEAR - Smart Big Data Platform to Offer Evidence-based Personalised Support for Healthy and Independent Living at Home
Project duration: 66 months
SmartBear's website: https://www.smart-bear.eu/
Project Summary: It is a fact that the European population growth is slowing down, while the population ageing accelerates. Rapid increases in the elderly population are predicted for the coming decades due to the ageing of post-war baby births. Within Europe’s ageing population, Hearing Loss, Cardio Vascular Diseases, Cognitive Impairments, Mental Health Issues and Balance Disorders, as well as Frailty, are prevalent conditions, with tremendous social and financial impact. Preventing, slowing the development of or dealing effectively with effects of the above impairments can have a significant impact on the quality of life and lead to significant savings in the cost of healthcare services. Digital tools hold the promise for many health benefits that can enhance the independent living and well-being of the elderly.
Motivated by the above, the aim of the SMART-BEAR platform is to integrate heterogeneous sensors, assistive medical and mobile devices to enable the continuous data collection from the everyday life of the elderly, which will be analysed to obtain the evidence needed in order to offer personalised interventions promoting their healthy and independent living. The platform will also be connected to hospital and other health care service systems to obtain data of the end users (e.g., medical history) that will need to be considered in making decisions for interventions.
SMART-BEAR will leverage big data analytics and learning capabilities, allowing for large scale analysis of the above mentioned collected data, to generate the evidence required for making decisions about personalised interventions. Privacy-preserving and secure by design data handling capabilities, covering data at rest, in processing, and in transit, will cover comprehensively all the components and connections utilized by the SMART-BEAR platform.
The SMART-BEAR platform will be tested and validated through five large scale pilots, spanning five different countries and 5.000 individuals: France, Greece, Italy, Spain and Romania. The pilots will enable the evaluation of the platform in the context of healthcare service delivery by private and public providers at regional, state and EU level, and demonstrate its efficacy, extensibility, sustainability, and cost effectiveness for the individual and the healthcare system.
Partners:
| ‧ CATEL | France |
| ‧ StreamVision | France |
| ‧ Athens Technology Centre | Greece |
| ‧ Foundation for Research and Technology | Greece |
| ‧ Institute of Communication & Computer Systems | Greece |
| ‧ Municipality of Palaio Faliro | Greece |
| ‧ National & Kapodistrian University of Athens | Greece |
| ‧ Region of Peloponnese | Greece |
| ‧ University of Ioannina | Greece |
| ‧ International Business Machines Corporation | Israel |
| ‧ CNR ICAR | Italy |
| ‧ Comunita' Sociale Cremasca | Italy |
| ‧ Fondazione Centro San Raffaele | Italy |
| ‧ Azienda regionale per l'innovazione e gli acquisti S.p.A. |
Italy |
| ‧ Università degli Studi di Milano | Italy |
| ‧ Philips Electronics Nederland B.V. | Netherlands |
| ‧ Fundatia Ana Aslan International | Romania |
| ‧ IT Support Solutions | Romania |
| ‧ ATOS Spain S.A. | Spain |
| ‧ Innovatec | Spain |
| ‧ MUTUALIA | Spain |
| ‧ Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea | Spain |
| ‧ Sphynx Technology Solutions | Switzerland |
| ‧ Bird and Bird | United Kingdom |
| ‧ City, University of London | United Kingdom |
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 857172
THE BEARPACK PLATFORM
As technical partner of the French Pilot, StreamVision developed the BearPack digital platform to automate the logistics of medical kits for clinical centers involved in the SmartBear Project. "Recruiter" and "Packager" accounts were created to streamline this process. The recruiter, identified by a unique number for their center, enters the patient’s pathologies and submits a kit request. The packager receives the request and initiates the assembly. Based on the indicated pathologies, the system provides a list of medical devices to pair with a smartphone, which has already been linked to a Google account.
A detailed guide with screenshots explains each step for pairing and configuring the devices, allowing collaborators to follow the process step by step. Once the kit is assembled and packaged, the platform generates a shipping label, including a TNT barcode for tracking. An email is sent to the clinical center to notify them that the kit is ready.
StreamVision aimed to automate the logistics as much as possible to save time while maintaining precise tracking of the equipment sent and the remaining tasks.
For more information, StreamVision has designed an explanatory video of BearPack: