Objective

The overall objective of the Pharaon project was to support Europe’s ageing population by integrating digital services, devices, and tools into open platforms. These should be easy to use and preserve the dignity of older people and their independence and safety and improve their capabilities. The project used a range of digital tools: connected (IoT) devices, artificial intelligence, robotics, cloud and edge computing, smart wearables, big data, and smart analytics. These were integrated to enable personalised and optimised health care delivery.

Pharaon’s integrated platforms were validated in two stages: pre-validation and large-scale pilots (LSPs), in six different pilot sites: Murcia and Andalusia (Spain), Portugal, the Netherlands, Slovenia and Italy. A set of development tools was created and made publicly available to facilitate adaptation and integration. Tools and results were disseminated as widely as possible to encourage the development of new solutions similar to Pharaon.

Go to www.pharaon.eu for more information on the Project.

Project achievements/results

The following European standardization documents (CEN Workshop Agreements) were developed during the project:

CWA 17933 - Digital health innovations — Good practice guide for obtaining consent for the use of personal health information for research and innovations

CWA 18123 - Guidelines on Action Research for Large Scale Piloting

Through liaisons with two working groups of ISO/TC 314 Ageing societies

• ISO/TC 314/WG 5 "Home care"
• ISO/TC 314/WG 4 "Wellbeing"

Pharaon project partners contributed to the development of international Standards.

Project duration

01.12.2019 - 30.11.2023, extended until 11/2024

Project coordinator

• University of Florence (Italien)

Project partners

• Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A. (Italien)
• Fondazione Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza (Italy)
• UP Umana Persone (Italy)
• Co-Robotics S.r.l (Italy)
• Orthokey Italia SLR (Italy)
• Technical Research Centre of Furniture and Wood of the Region of Murcia (Spain)
• Murcia Health Service (Spain)
• Polytechnical University of Cartagena (Spain)
• My Energia Oner SL (Spain)
• Diputación Provincial de Jaén (Spain)
• University of Jaén (Spain)
• Ageing Social Lab Foundation (Spain)
• Robotnik Automation SLL (Spain)
• Indra soluciones tecnologías de la información SLU (Spain)
• Irmandade da Santa Casa da Misericordia da Amadora IPPS (Portugal)
• University of Beira Interior (Portugal)
• Caritas Diocesana de Coimbra (Portugal)
• University of Coimbra- Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre (Portugal)
• Maastricht Instruments (Netherlands)
• Roessingh Research and Development B.V (Niederlande)
• Stichting Nationaal Ouderenfonds (Netherlands)
• University of Twente (Netherlands)
• AdSysCo B.V (Netherlands)
• Innorenew CoE (Slovenia)
• National Public Health Service of Slovenia (Slovenia)
• Izola Retirement Home (Slovenia)
• Ericsson Nikola Tesla d.d (Croatia)
• Ascora GmbH (Germany)
• Stelar Security Technology Law Research UG (Deutschland)
• GIP Autonom’Lab (France)
• Information Catalyst for Enterprise, Ltd (Great Britain)
• AGE Platform Europe (Belgium)
• MINDS & SPARKS GmbH (Austria)
• Glintt Healthcare Solutions (Portugal)
• SenLab IoT Solutions (Slovenia)
• SenTab Estonia (Estonia)
• University of Tartu (Estonia)
• Tecnologie Informatiche e Loro Aplicazione UNINFO (Italy)

Project funding

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 857188.