The objective of the project was to create
a system, which provides its users
sense of presence of their family, friends,
and health care personnel, i.e. so called
safety net, and assures that the elderly
people are never left alone. The system
encourages people to stay in contact
with other people by providing, as the
simplest form, availability information
of possible and known communication
partners and in this way the system
promotes to maintain its users’ social
connections with their safety net people.
Through the AMCOSOP system, elderly
(primary users) can sense from
a distance the availability of their relatives
and friends (secondary users),
express their communication willingness
to them and exchange contextual and
status information with them. On top
of that, secondary users can communicate
short messages to their primary
users. Moreover, tertiary users can provide
messaging and information type
services to the primary users, such as
consultancy and care services.

http://www.aal-europe.eu/projects/amcosop/

• Western Europe and North America

• Older persons

The objective of the project was to create a system, which provides its users sense of presence of their family, friends, and health care personnel, i.e. so called safety net, and assures that the elderly people are never left alone. The system encourages people to stay in contact with other people by providing, as the simplest form, availability information of possible and known communication partners and in this way the system promotes to maintain its users’ social connections with their safety net people.