Evolution Towards Better AAL Environments

The huge and continuous growth in population age, and the necessity to encourage their independent life with the goal of improving their quality of life and remote assistance, result in a constant evolution in AAL environments. The appearance of new AAL systems including new functionalities, and the integration of them in familiar environments, as homes, need an exhaustive study of current AAL systems and where they go, their expectations and future evolution. This paper shows a coherent evolution of such systems based on the expertise and particular view of the Department of Electronics and Home Automation of CETEM. It emphasizes in the integration of AAL systems at home in a pervasive way and describes a successful developed project which supports pervasive aspects of integrating these systems at home. It also shows the integration of new eHealth functionalities into AAL systems and describes the objectives of an actual R&D project under development. All that makes for better AAL systems but there still exists other improvement fields focused on the autonomy of this kind of systems that are analyzed in the paper and proposed for future work.