The FP7 PERSIST Project

PERSIST consortium has presented the Personal Smart Spaces vision  and achievements of PERSIST project during the  Ambient intelligence (AmI) for elderly and disabled population event . The event took place on March 4th in  Ljubljana, Slovenia and was co-organized by (i) Institute for Rehabilitation, Republic of Slovenia (IRRS) and (ii) Security Technology Competence Centre (SETCCE, Slovenia). The main focus of the event was demonstration of a AmI prototype for elderly and disabled people impleneted in the IRIS smart home (visit this page for more ). PERSIST technical coordinator Michael Crotty (TSSG) has presented innovative mobile self adapting smart space concepts that could in future be potentially adapted and integrated in future ambient assiting living solutions, prof. dr. Anton Zupan (IRRS) has presented the traditional smart solutions for eldery and disabled population, Jan Porekar (SETCCE) has presented and demonstated the Ambient intelligence prototype and the AmI enabling iCore platform and Mr. Jurij Dovžan (Government of Republic of Slovenia, Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology) has presented interests of Government of Republic of Slovenia and future funding possiblities that may further finance research and developement of ambient assisted living technologies.

Figure 1: Presenters @ the AmI 4 elderly and disabled population event [from left to right]:
Jan Porekar (SETCCE), Michael Crotty (TSSG), Jurij Dovžan  (Government of Republic of Slovenia, Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology) and Prof. Dr. Anton Zupan (IRSR) [below].