SmartLivingNEXT: Safe and self-determined ageing – smart model apartment shows the future of care
18. March 2025
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How can senior citizens live safely and independently within their own four walls, regardless of their care level? The GAiST research project funded as part of SmartLivingNEXT provides the answer: a model apartment in Hamburg’s oldest foundation, the Hospital zum Heiligen Geist, has been equipped with state-of-the-art smart living technology.
This home lays the foundation for the implementation of new intelligent services, such as apps, which ensure that care services and relatives can easily and seamlessly keep an eye on the state of health of senior citizens and any new needs that arise. This offers senior citizens security and well-being in their own home.
Smart home components, sensors and measuring devices are installed in the show apartment to keep an eye on various things, including vital data such as blood pressure and pulse. The special feature: In order to detect changes in the everyday lives of senior citizens or their state of health at an early stage, this data is brought together in a standardized way using data room technologies and evaluated across devices and providers, including through the use of artificial intelligence methods. The data room enables the seamless collection and consolidation of information relevant to medical care as well as data on the living environment of senior citizens. This is the first time that legal and technical hurdles have been overcome that previously prevented the holistic use of this information. The GAiST model apartment is an important step towards sustainable, preventative care. Interested parties can find out more on site and experience how smart technologies can make everyday life easier for older people.
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Central documents for SmartLivingNEXT
The white paper contains the guideline and reference framework for the future technical development of the SmartLivingNEXT Dataspace and the desired governance structure. It was created with the collaboration of teams from German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), the Research Association for Electrical Engineering at ZVEI e.V., Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) and Materna Information & Communications SE. You can have the white paper sent to you as a PDF. Please contact our project office at projektbuero@smartlivingnext.de.
The document is intended as a structuring investor perspective and orientation framework, not as a final business plan, and analyzes the possible roles of potential investors. It was written in collaboration with Michael Schidlack, Research Association for Electrical Engineering at ZVEI e.V., Dr. Rahild Neuburger, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) and Lars Thomsen, future matters AG. You can have the document sent to you as a PDF. Please contact our project office at projektbuero@smartlivingnext.de.
Das Dokument erläutert im ersten Teil (Governance & Organisation) SmartLivingNEXT als föderiertes Datenökosystem und beschreibt die Rollen, Verantwortlichkeiten und Entscheidungslogiken. Der zweite Teil (technische Architektur & Datenraum) beschreibt, wie diese Governance technisch umgesetzt wird. Es entstand unter Mitwirkung von Michael Schidlack, Forschungsvereinigung Elektrotechnik beim ZVEI e.V., Dr. Rahild Neuburger, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) und Fanni Vespermann, Materna Information & Communications SE. Sie können sich das Dokument als PDF zusenden lassen. Please contact our project office at projektbuero@smartlivingnext.de.
