Living Lab infrastructures for Smart Environments
AUTH Living Environment Simulation is located inside the Medical School, allowing access to strong collaboration, expertise and continuous communication with medical staff. A living room environment and a kitchen environment is set up in the same physical space. The AHA LL is equipped with home appliances and furniture so as to better resemble an older adult’s home.
GAIA Smart Spaces, in collaboration with the municipality of Gernika – Lumo, has a unique focus on sport spaces. GAIA counts on with smart devices to monitor the health and wellbeing of users and in collaboration with Gernika-Lumo municipality will taste and validate Smart methodologies, products and services together with their citizens for the redesigning of public spaces, giving new uses to infrastructures and sport spaces and adapting them to new needs: sports grounds, public gyms, etc.
INTRAS MIND lab for AHA & Independent Living is a space for open innovation, specialized in co-design for people suffering from mental health disorders, older adults and people with disabilities. It holds multifunctional spaces and Lab Rooms for trying technologies, working offices and open innovation spaces, meeting and conference rooms, convivial meeting points and resting spaces. The LL is equipped with IT software and devices for training, rehabilitation, monitoring, daily living assistance and communication technologies.
TheLiCalab Older Adults’ Homes are houses owned by elderly people who are panel members of the Living Lab and live in different conditions (independently, supported by assisted technology and/or by (in)formal carers). LiCalab equips the houses with technologies from SMEs, (external) research groups or external parties to evaluate the technology through real life testing. In this way, technology can be demonstrated in the real life environment of the houses of the panel members.
Nagykovácsi Wellbeing Living Lab- Trebag offers alternative activities for older adults’ well-being (yoga, gardening, tai-chi etc). It has a living room environment combined with a kitchenette and a diner in the same physical space. Next to the hall area there is also a separate smaller room. All rooms are equipped with tables and chairs as well as appliances for sessions with ICT tools, laptops, whiteboards and a projector. The main area is often used for lectures and seminars, but also suitable to host physical activities like yoga or gym for older adults. The garden is connected with the NWLL building by a big terrace suitable for further outdoor activities.
Laurea Activity Living Lab is not connected to a single environment, but the infrastructure is mobile, with up to 400 participants having been tested in a single day. Laurea has various types of mobile technology to test physical capacity and physical activity levels. For example, the Cosmed K5 wearable metabolic system is designed for both laboratory and field performance assessment. The HUR BT4 force platform. which assesses balance performance and the Tanita MC-780 multi-frequency segmental body composition analyzer are both in use in Laurea Activity LL. Muscle functions can be detected by a 16-channel data logger ME6000 (Bittium, Kuopio, Finland) to collect surface electromyography signals. Isometric muscle strength can be evaluated by the HUR Performance recorder and aerobic/anaerobic capacity by Monark test ergometers.
ΑΙΤ Technology Experience Laboratory offers an interdisciplinary experience (design, ergonomy, work and environmental psychology, informatics and engineering). The AIT Technology Experience Lab prepares, sets up and realizes the user-centered investigation and implementation of health-related and assistive technologies. The highly interdisciplinary team provides the facilities and competences to develop and test enhanced forms of contextual user experiences.
